Throwing in a stallion into the mix of the main six is a sure way to stir things up. Said stallion being the brother of the god of chaos and holding power over time and space is a recipy for disaster.
(On hiatus due to school and other projects)
Nova was his name these days. Sure it wasn't the worst name in the world but let's be honest, Locus Tempus Imperium sounds way cooler and powerful. Nova spoke of a stallion with his head in the clouds while his true name spoke of a stallion that held great power.
Of course the last part of his name had he picked along with his older brother ages ago. He didn't even remeber his actual last name his parents had given him, something that bothered him a little.
If he remebered it he would write it down on a small lizard so he would always know where it was, in the freezer. He would then take out the lizard and read what was written on it with a potato he had found in a pony's throat. Lizards could fly right? So he would just throw it like a paper airplane to his sister when she needed the information. Ahhh mordern mail systems.
The world have changed a lot since Nova and his brother played in it, perhaps so much it was no longer his home.
One special foal met a strange creature many years ago. They both felt a kindred spirit and soon came to call each other brothers. However when the two brothers lost each other the foal would be lost for a long time until he would be found by the parents of the princess's own student and from there on out his jounery would rip the tapestry of destiny apart as the events around him would change from how they were once supposed to happen.
This is the story of one stallion trying to understand the world around him while the ponies he know tries in return to understand him. This is the story of Locus and his make-shift family's adventures across Euqestria.
((Sorry for the bad cover art but It's all I have for now ))
The wind howled over the mountains and Locus struggled to follow his parents as the snow hit him repeatedly in the face and covered his small wings. The colt had no clue why they suddenly were moving away from their cozy little home, of course, their home was infested with kittens that meowed constantly and carried off any guests they had. The small meowing herd had been known through out town to carry off screaming ponies towards their home in the south every winter.
However Locus or his parents were never really bothered by the cats. It had to be something else. Oh! Perhaps they would live in a home made out of candy! A fudge chimney, chocolate walls, tables made out of pure sugar, lights made out of hard gumballs. The thoughts of this imaginary house made the colt lick his lips and he continued to follow his parents.
It didn't take long for them to see what laid beyond the mountains, a land filled with pink clouds and everything was chaos. While his parents had looked horrifed Locus giggled at sight of a pink cloud sending out a lightning bolt made out of candy that hit a bird on the ground. It was turned it into a turkey with its body made out of a lemon, instead of feathers, it wings were now covered in fur and it's head was now a top hat. The bird somehow flew upside down and backwards, swooshing past the colt as the sound coming out of it's beak was like an acoustic gitar.
Locus giggled at the bird as more of it's kind joined it and they flew around him before flying up into the air, somehow appearing on the ground again when they were out of sight. Why was his parents so afraid of this? This was fun and looked cool!
The colt was snapped out his thoughts about the funny looking birds when his parents called for him. He flew closer and the two adult alicorns summoned their magic to open up a rift. The crack in the magical veil showed the landscape they were witenssing but the pink coulds, floating rock formations and animals with weird body parts were gone. It looked rather plain and normal, it probally didn't even have killer kittens of doom!
"Mom! Dad! Why can't we stay here? It looks fun!" Locus whined and his mother wrapped him in a magical aurora and placed him on her back.
His parents looked tired from summoning the rift and their horns constantly glowed to keep it open. Locus didn't know how they used their special magic, all he knew was that they had told him the same magic was resting within himself. Locus had tried turning an apple into dust yet it had just exploded in his face. He still remebered how all the cats had rushed out their door in panic.
"Honey we can't stay here. The land is too.. chatoic" She told him and his father flew into the rift before it suddenly sparked and grew in width, sending out a shockwave that knocked Locus off her back.
"Mom!" He yelled in panic as he tumbled to the ground. The magic rushing through his body made him feel paralyzed and he could only helplessly see the ground coming rushing towards him.
"Locus!" His mother yelled and tried to fly after him, only to be sucked into the now growing rift before it exploded in magical energy.
The shockwave disbanded all the pink clouds and broke some of the rock formations flouting in the sky. A certain creature sitting on a rather evil looking throne looked at the sky in slight confusion before it floated towards the origin of the explosion, the clouds reforming behind it as it flew.
Locus was hyperventilating and tried to unfold his wings as the ground came closer and closer. He screamed in fear before he was suddenly caught on a pink cloud that broke on impact, slowing down his fall but still making him hit the ground hard. The cloud itself wrapped itself around a rock until it formed a draconequus that looked over the colt whimpering in pain. What an unsual sight.
Locus got up and limped over to a patch of grass that turned into tiny dogs made out of caramel before running off. He looked around and sniffed. Where did his mother go? Why hadn't she caught him? He knew she had followed him yet she was not here.
"Mom?.." The colt said and looked around, his wings twitching and his small horn glowed brightly, afraid of what could come out of the darkness in the nearby chocolate woods.
"You are an unusual sight" A voice called out under his head and he looked down to see a flower with the head of a creature that had one deer antler, one horn that looked like it belonged on a goat, one sharp tooth sticking out from its upper mouth and its head belonged to a pony. Its tongue was similar to a snake and it had white bushy eyebrows. Its pupils were red and different sizes while it had a goat beard hanging from the underside of it's lower jaw.
Locus yelled in fear and suprise before stumbling backwards and falling on his rump. He looked at the flower as it suddenly grew in size before it towered over him and formed a strange creature from the head down. He could make out a right arm that belonged to a lion, it's claw belonging to an eagle, it's right leg belonging to a lizard, it,s left leg belonging to a goat, it,s tail was a dragon-like snake tail with white fluff on the end. It's body resembled that of a snake.
"W-What are you?.." The colt asked and backed away from the creature only for him to appear behind him.
"Why are always you ponies so rude? Always asking what I am rather than who I am" The draconequus said and Locus gave of scream of fear at the creatures sudden appearence and hid behind some rocks.
Locus soon realized it wasn't rocks as they turned out to be crabs made out of rocks that ran away in a herd, it reminded him of the kittens of doom. Damn he was gonna miss those cats of killer meowing.
"They're moving in herds.. They do move in herds" The draconequus said dressed in a blue shirt and a red scarf tied around his neck, his right arm leaning on Locus head.
The colt screamed in fear again and ran away from the strange creature before running into a wall made out of rabbits with the heads of fishes and tails like cats. The sight was enough to stop him for a second and he poked one of the fish heads only for the wall of.. things, to jump onto the ground and explode into confetti.
"Stop running!" The annoyed voice of the draconequus said behind him and Locus screamed again before his mouth was teleported onto a block of salt and his body was wrapped in vines that hummed on the jaws theme song.
"Now I'm going to be polite and tell you my name and then you're going to be polite and tell me your name, understood?" The draconequus asked him and he nodded afraid what would happen if he said no to this thing.
"Good. Now my name is Discord and I am what's called a draconequus" He told Locus and he was given back his mouth with a flash of magic before the wines let him go.
"M-My name is L-Locus.. I'm an alicorn.." The colt whimpered and Discord picked him up by his wings to which he yelped.
"I will never understand how you ponies can fly without chaos magic, harmonic magic is just so.. plain. It would never normally alllow something like these wings working" He said and the colt yelled out in suprise again as he was dropped onto the ground, luckily for him it turned into chocolate milk and broke his fall.
"C-Can you help me find my parents?.." Locus asked Discord who got very close to him, the two of them face to face, and stared deeply into Locus eyes.
"Nope" He said and summoned a tea cup, drank the cup, threw away the tea that turned into a platypus before he appeared on his throne that now somehow mad came closer to them.
"B-But.. Please! I want my mom and dad!" He sniffed and started to cry, sitting down on the ground and just letting the tears run down his cheeks.
Discord looked over at the sad display and sighed. He didn't care for this child but he hated sadness and sorrow, it would always spoil the mood of his fun. It also took hold in the chaos magic around the colt, the pink clouds showering him in sour charamels.
"Fine.." Discord muttered and appeared next to the colt and put him on his back.
"S-S you're going to help me?" Locus asked him and whiped his cheeks with his hooves.
"If you leave me alone and stop crying then I will move a mountain for you" The draconequus said and flew up into the air.
"Mom and dad opened up a rift and it just went crazy! It just froze me up and exploded!" The colt said and discord sensed the air for this rift and someting was there in the sky, something that felt off and strage.
"What kind of rift are we talking about here?" Discord asked and let the colt fly on his own as he flouted in the air and looked at the place the rift had been.
"Dad always said it was a rift in spacetime" The colt said and the area his parents had used their magic on looked like a broken mirror, just hanging in the air was this piece of very unstable time magic.
Discord immedletly backed off from the rift. This was beyond him or any other creature on the planet. This rift was not only unstable but it seemingly was sending off powerful magical signals every second. It was a beacon to know in which time someone had been. Yet the thing had been effected by his chaos magic, the signals was everything but good.
"Kid we have to leave this alone, this is powerful stuff we're talking about and I don't think your parents are gonna find you anytime soon.. This thing is dangerous.. Interacting with it could make it explode again and that kind of explosion would not leave many things with their skin on" The draconequus said and Locus looked at the rift in panic.
"N-NO! They wouldn't just leave me here! There has to be another way!" Locus said and flew as quickly he could against the rift before Discord could react.
The second the colt touched the rift it sent out a powerful shookwave. Locus was sent flying and screaming for his life as his limbs once again locked up from the amount of magic coursing through his small body. Discord saw this happening and quickly rushed to his side and wrapped himself around him before he turned into a rubber boat and they sailed down a stream oc chocolate milk that appeared mid air.
Locus panted and shuddered in fear and the second Discord turned back to his normal form he hugged him. The draconequus was looked confused first and looked down on the colt before patting his head. The feeling of gratitude was new to him.
"Thank you for saving me mister Discord" The colt whispered and kept hugging his now savior before Discord started feeling uncomfortable.
"Ok that's enough kid, that's enough. Settle down." He said and slowly Locus let go of his snake like mid section and looked up at him.
"Does this mean I won't be able to see my parents again?.." He asked the draconequus and slowly more tears started to form in his eyes.
Discord looked at the sad colt and sighed internally. No one was gonna be able to say no to those eyes and that quivering lip. It annoyed him that a child seemingly mad more control over him than himself. But maybe he could just say it was all part of the chaos that the children ruled over the adults.
"No I'm sure you'll see them again, you'll just have to wait a little longer on them to come back. Until then you can stay with me" The draconequus said with a sigh and Locus looked at him with a smile.
"Really? You're gonna let me stay here?" The colt asked him with an excited horse noise and Discord was confused to how quickly this pony could go from sad to happy.
"Yeah Yeah just.. try not to be so loud. I have some good chaos to watch and create" He told Locus before appearing on his throne and the colt followed him, sitting down next to him and watched in awe as the chaos spirit made the landscape move around in a extrodinary show of colours and chocolate milk.
This show went on for hours as Locus was just more and more impressed by what the chaos spirit could do. One mountain had turned out to be a moth that had looked big in the distance while it actually had only been hovering in the air a few meters away from him. The realization Discord was also playing with perspective made the colt try to spot what more was just a illusion and what was reality.
Discord in the meanwhile was actually enjoying the company of the colt, not that he would admit it to anyone, as it was the first time ever someone except him saw beauty and fun in the chaos. It was a strage feeling to have someone look upon his work and not feel afraid or disgusted. Maybe a child's perspective were better than an adult's.
"Um mister discord?" Locus suddenly asked and the draconequus turned to him and heard his stomach grumble.
"Do you have any food?" He asked the chaos spirit and he was suddenly teleported to a long table with all sorts of food on it.
"Do the young sir want fried lettuce, baked potatoes, boiled candy canes, dried fish?.." Discord started and he continued to mention most likly over one hundred different dishes while he was dressed in a buttlers jacket and had a typical french mustach that was curled like a old movie villan.
"Um I'll take the.. fried lettuce?.." Locus said and the dish appeared in front of him with a glass of milk next to him.
"Bon apetite" The draconequus said and disapered before reapearing on his throne, once again turning the landscape into a chaotic dance.
The colt ate in silence as he watched the show discord put on. The entire thing was never dull as not one thing seemed to repeat, except from the animals though seeing how the water mellon birds were still flying around and playing a song he didn't know with their acoustic beaks.
Discord watched the kid eat before he saw the sun starting to set, it was weird how easily it did that these days. He still remembered how it before looked like it was struggeling to set and rise while now it was simply going down over the horizon in one smooth montion.
"Mom always liked the sunset, she told me that if I ever felt alone I should just look at it and think of her" The colt said and frowned slighly thinking about his family.
"Bah, I always feel alone and looking at the sun doesn't help. It just makes you blinded" Discord said and sipped on a glass of warm melted gold, the perfect midnight snack.
"Don't you have a family mister Discord?" Locus asked him and the draconequues tensed before relaixing.
"No, why would I need a family? They would just be in the way. Plus I have this beautiful chaos, it's so much better than a family" He said and his talons squeezed the arm rest on his throne rather hard, leaving scratches.
"Are you sure? It sounds so lonely.." Locus said and looked at Discord who squeezed the arm rest harder and harder.
"Well you could be my big brother! I always wanted a brother!" The colt said with a smile and Discord turned to him looking very confused.
"Kid not that I want to make you sad but we just met.. I don't really know you.." He started but the colt interupted him.
"Then I'll tell you everything! My full name is Locus Tempus.. Tempus.. shoot I don't remeber what my last name is!" The colt said and trotted back and forward while Discord watched him.
Why would this colt that could at most be five years old want him as a brother? Sure he could do the best birthday tricks this side of the crystal river but Locus didn't know that. The mere fact that he would want Discord as his brother was both heart warming and scary. He didn't know how to raise a kid, he didn't even know the kids full name for maker's sake!
"I can't remember it.. I can't remeber my last name.." The colt said and his lower lip quivered, a clear indication he was about to cry and Discord teleported to his side and patted his head.
"Ok kid let's just.. come up with a name for you now and you can tell me your last name later" He said and the young pony looked at him with a smile.
"Really?" He said and jumped around in happiness while Discord pounderd over what name would fit the colt in front of him.
All of his names were in old speech, something he hadn't heard in a long time so he asumed that this colt was important. He was most likely some noble or royal kid. Something that would explain him having both a horn and wings. His fur was also a regal white while his mane were a light black. So, he was most likely important, seemed to carry magical potential inside of him, named in old speech and his eyes looked rather weird now when Discord thought about it. His right eye was yellow but had numbers in it while his left eye looked like it contained space itself.
"Well? Come on give me a name big brother!" Locus said and jumped around, his movements kind of made him look like a salmon.
"Imperium, Locus Tempus Imperium" Discord said and tried to hold a smile as he was not sure he liked being called brother by anyone.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" The colt said over and over again as he ran around Discord in a circel before he grabbed his head and it popped off his body that kept running around in circels.
"Now calm down so I can talk to you about what we're gonna do about you being lost, alone and all of that" Discord said and put the colts head back on his body.
Locus head was not placed correctly however considering how his chest was facing Discord while his head was currently looking at his tail. The draconequus wondered if he should be worried about how casually the colt was reacting to having his head removed but seeing how he wasn't crying it was probally fine.
"Oops" Discord said and grabbed the colts head and spun it around before it was the right way again and he sat down.
"Now, you will stay with me until your parents come and get you. However there are some ground rules I will put down" Discord said and the colt watched him intensly.
"There will be no complaing during the night, I need my beauty sleep. There will be no crying over spilled milk, you can fix your problems and milk rather easily. You will not go near the rift again unless you think you can open it without an explosion killing us all. You will not touch the chocolate milk river, last time I had to repair it becuase some fat pig had fallen into the river and blocked the pipes collecting the chocolate. Finally, you will not mix whatever magic you have with my magic, we both have seen just how bad it can go if that happens. Do you understand these rules?" The god-like being asked him and he nodded before hugging Discord.
"Thank you!" Locus said and Discord slowly and akwardly returned the hug.
"Now run off and play or something. I have to check up on some things" He told the young pony that nodded and ran off to play while the chaos spirit looked at him with a small smile.
Perhaps this kids presence would be a good time for him. So far he had mostly cried but he knew that the chaotic landscape would enchant the colt the second he stepped away from the ruler of it all. To be frank was the entire country a playground for children these days.
Even if the child's company was fun hoped Discord that the parents would find a way back to Locus soon. He knew nothing about what the colt needed and it bothered him that the young pony could so easily trust him. Not that he would hurt the child in any way, but he knew many creatures that would use naive innocent look if reality Locus held and hurt him. He guessed it was his job to keep the child safe until the parents returned, however long that may be.
One month later
Discord was getting tired of waiting. Sure he had himself said he would take care of the child for as long as needed but the parents of this young boy had seemingly forgotten about him completly. They could open up rift in time itself for maker's sake! They should be able to come back and pick up their beloved child!
Discord sighed and looked out over his land of chaos, most of it looked gray and boring now, all thanks to Locus sadness. Sure he should have expected the child to grow sad when his parents never came for him but the way he was sad just made every day blend into each other like a gray mess.
Discord sighed again and remebered how every day for over two weeks time the colt would wake up and sit under the rift the entire morning wating on something to happen. But when the second week passed and there was no sign of his parents he stopped waiting under the rift and kept mostly to himself and only seemingly smiled whenever Discord tried to cheer him up.
The chaos spirit sighed and looked out over the small hut like house he had conjured up for the colt. It was looking more and more sad each day and Locus bearly stepped out of it. Oh how this was spoiling not only his mood but every creatures mood as well.
The melon birds only played sad tunes, the candy dogs all howled in sorrow at the sun, the fish cat things all hid in their respective holes and the stone crabs just would't get up, they could possibly also be normal rocks but Discord didn't like that answer.
He flouted over to the hut and knocked slowly on the door before opening it. There on a small bed laid Locus as he stared up into the roof. He just looked tired and ready to give up. Discord hated that look in the kids eyes, they seemed to no longer hold any hope of getting his parents back.
"Kid, we need to talk.." Discord said and the colt got up before he trotted over to him.
"About what?.." He asked Discord who teleported them to a more colourful part of the chaotic land.
"Your parents might not be coming back Locus.. I just want you to know that they might not be here but I am. I have enjoyed your company these last weeks and it's so much more fun sharing this chaos with someone that appreciates it. If you want it then this will be your new home" Discord said and the colt looked at him with some returning hope in his eyes.
"Really? Will let me stay here? Will you be my brother then?" The colt asked him and Discord gave a small smile.
"Yes you can stay, but we'll work out that brother thing" The chaos spirit said and the colt hugged him tightly and started to cry in happiness.
"Thank you.." He sniffed and looked up at the draconequus.
"You didn't think I would push you off did you? I have let you stay for over a month" He said and the colt laughed as he tickled his snout with the fluff on his tail.
"I wasn't sure you would want me around anymore since I have just been annoying.." The colt said and Discord looked around as colour was returning to the landscape around them.
"Sometimes you can be slightly annoying kid, I'm not gonna lie about that, but as I said you have been good company" He told the colt and they reapeard outside the hut.
"Can we play then big brother? I saw some chocolate fishes swimming around in a bowl tears running down the face of a gigantic bathtub!" He said and Discord nodded before they appeared by the very large bathtub.
They played for hours buy what only felt like a few moments for Discord, he hadn't had this much fun in years. Not even with controling all the chaos around his own little kingdom had brought him as much joy as playing with this child and makingn him laugh. Somewhere deep in his mind he was told he was becoming soft but he simply shrugged it off. Who would care if they saw them play, there was no one nearby for miles upon miles.
Two months later
Everything had some sort of rotine these days. Discord would wake up, check the different parts of his kingdom for possible malfuctioning magic that could hurt Locus before waking up the kid with an entire band of clones playing metal at the highest volume.
The music was always enough to send the hut flying out into space, buy hay fries at the local moon market, take a few pictures of the sun and sing all of the songs the local beatles had composed during the night. To say the young pony was wide awake when Discord brought him down again was a large understatment.
"Ready for more adventures in the land of chaos?" He asked Locus while he was dressed in a striped shirt, ugly looking top hat and playing the harmonica.
"Yes sir!" The boy said before grabbing his newly made top hat and ran after Discord laughing as they rode on cow sized gummy bears and listened on the sounds of the diffrent creatures create a harmonious sound of chaos.
They had kept this very similar rotine for the last month, always the same thing every morning until they did something new and more exciting. For Discord it was always a thrill when the kid would praise yet another of his creations, the most recent being a statue of Locus standing on a smaller version of Discord that held him up with one arm.
Everything was great, the boy was slowly getting used to his parents not being by his side and he spent most time he had with Discord. However the draconequus would sometimes find him sitting under the rift and looking into it before walking back to his hut, he hadn't given up all hope that his parents would find him after all.
But there was one thing that was bothering Discord, something he was still uncomfortable with. Locus kept calling him his big broher. Sure it wasn't like he didn't act like one for the kid but the more Locus called him brother the more he expected Discord to call him the same. The only thing was just that Discord just couldn't call him that, that would make the day his parents finally came for him so much more painful.
He had already soften up enough to tell the boy some things from his past. His lack of parents and siblings had never made life easy for him as soon he got used to being lonely, pushing away any other living creature that got to close. He could still remeber the day he had searched help from the ponies in the north. They had screamed and ran the second they saw him, getting their spears to chase him away.
Discord still thought of it like a miracle that he hadn't chased away the colt the same second he had seen him, seeing just how much pain he would like to inflict on certaint ponies. Yet, the second the kid had told him his mother and father was gone Discord had deciced to help him, why?
Did he really just want someone to talk to? Was the entire reason he brought the child into his care after his parents disapeared to have someone to talk to? It all made him confused and more interested in helping the child be happy as they waited on some sign that his parents wouls return.
Yet no matter how much he liked hearing Locus stories about how his family used to host killer kittens or how he failed time and time again to turn different fruits young or old, Discord just couldn't call himself the kid's brother. It went against his entire persona about being the lonely chaos spirit that didn't like anyone.
But then again.. That had changed since Locus came into his life. Things he would once hate doing he now seemingly did in a flash. He stopped his chatotic landscape from flipping Locus hut upside down as he slept, he allowed a few patches of land be unctouched by his chaos magic and he allowed himself being hugged like a teddy bear.
He had changed since Locus came into his life but he think he saw changes in the colt as well. His attention spam was very similar to Discord's own. That could be becuase he was a child but the chaos spirit liked to think that it was thanks to him the colt was never going to be able to read a book.
The draconequus had also noticed how the boy always trying to mimic his slaps stick comedy with hilarious results as it always ended with the kid somehow getting a pie, fish or similar things in the face. Discord always took pictures and saved them during those moments.
"Are you ok big brother?" Locus suddenly asked him as for once had Discord's thougts been focused around one thing for more than two minutes.
"Yes I am ok.. brother" He said and smiled as the colt hugged him and chanted over and over again that he had a big brother.
Discord smiled and looked at the young pony. The words brother echoed over and over again out to the chaos kingdom. But it was the truth, this was his little brother.
Locus was woken up by the sun knocking on his door, the great ball of burning gas being around his own size as it kept up a constant knocking. The colt finally couldn't stand it anymore and got up from his bed at the end of the room, grumbling to himself.
He walked across the big room, having his bed at the end of the round room with something Discord called a TV next to the door with a couch in front of it. He had a pool next to his bed and the roof was covered with the night sky, quite literally, the actual night sky was "painted" on his ceiling.
As Locus opened the door the celestial ball of light nodded before it rose a few meters of the ground and stayed there. The colt tried to fly up to it yet realized it was now far far away up in space, the perspective once again changing and tricking him like usual, the draconequus having awoken him with a new way once again.
The young alicorn knew that Discord was up and about, not needing to sleep (or not wanting to sleep) as much as he did. Locus often heard from the crazy creature that he was more lazy than a dragon with a cellphone and tupla, not that he knew what either of those things was.
The son of time and space grabbed the gummy-worm that flouted outside his door, it being his breakfast. It tasted a bit like cheese and ham. He didn't know what ham was except that Discord had said he couldn't eat it and that all cats in the world worshiped an idol made of the stuff.
The boy had gotten used to the chaotic land he lived in by now, alongside his fun and creative brother. His small cottage (even if the inside was bigger than the outside) and a small patch of land around it was the only thing that was not touched by the chaos in the sense that his floor was not made of jello and his bed hadn't come alive yet.
As Locus thought over everything he noticed the marks Discord had made on a stone slab for him to keep track of the days he had been with him since the rift separated him from his parents. It had been a little over two years since it happened, making the seven year old doubt that they would come back for him.
He knew that something had gone two years ago, his mother's fear filled scream still fresh in his mind. The colt hoped that one day they would find a way back, he could show them he had a brother now! How much the god of chaos had helped him and cared for him.
Locus remembered how Discord had given him a silver crown on his sixth birthday, how he knew when the time the alicorn had been born was confusing but as Discord had grabbed a big flower with a plastic bee on it and started to tell a tale of an egg with dreams of becoming a real chicken he stopped questioning it.
The boy loved his crown, the headgear meant to collect mana from the air so casting spells would be easier, something Discord showed during his classes. Though calling a thing that you allowed to blow up mountains and only eat candy for an entire day class was probably the wrong thing to do.
He was snapped out of his more boring thoughts as a melon bird gave him a message in the form of a song coming from it's beak, the sound mimicking Discord but if the chaos spirit had been a guitar. It was rather fascinating to not understand a thing from the bird before suddenly Discord's head popped up from the bird's beak, making him yelp with fear (even if he should have been used to it by now).
"Good morning Locus! I have such a fun day planned for us! I made a canoe out of a squirrel!" Discord said and turned Locus head to the weird sight of a canoe with fur on all its sides and at one end having a neck and a head, said head eating on a few nuts the chaos spirit had flouting ahead of it.
"Is it ok?" The colt said and the draconequus waved his lion paw at him, obviously finding it s ridiculous question.
"Of course it is ok! I would never injure an innocent animal" Disord said and a lemon bird exploded into a pile of candy in the background.
"Intentionally" He added with a sheepish smile and the pile turned into a dog made out of kool-aid.
It was not the weirdest thing Locus had seen and he jumped into the rear of the canoe, Discord popping into existence in front of him dressed in and adventuress hat and a red shirt. His brother always looked rather silly but then gain, why wouldn't the coolest and most fun brother in the world not look silly and funny.
Locus snapped out of his thoughts as his eyes open wide and his mouth hand open in wonder. As they traveled down the chocolate river they came upon a patch of woods that rose up on both sides of the river, yet this was no normal chaotic forest with rock trees that had singing blueberries for roots and cats for leaves.
What laid ahead was a forest where every last tree had a unique coloration and flavor. They were all made out of pure candy! Candy canes for branches, cotton candy for leaves and a trunk that was made out of many different candy pieces that melted together to create one structure.
Locus knew that the trees were more for him than actually being part of the forest, he knew this mainly because it was to orderly for Discord and it just seemed like a pure gift. Not that the colt would reject the candy forest, it was a gift after all, a gift he would not refuse.
With a excited neigh he jumped up into the air and hovered with his wings as he ate from the cotton candy leaves, Discord singing on some weird language as the squirrel canoe slowly drifted down the river and pass the candy trees. This had to be the best boat trip in history!
While the two brothers slowly made their way down the river the young pony soon stopped eating on the trees, more impressed by the lavish creations that seemed to hide away among the cotton trees. He could see a house made out of poison joke, a strange creature that stood on two legs with it's head and feet made out of bricks and a pony statue that was dancing on smaller statue that was dancing on a smaller statue that was dancing on a smaller statue. It never ended with statues!
"I call it "a forest of a million licks" as it would take around that many licks to reach the center of a candy tree" The dracoonequs said and snapped his paws, the canoe suddenly lifting into the air.
The colt was in awe at the view while the squirel canoe screamed in terror, only for discord to give the creature a few acorns. As they soared across the sky Locus could only hope that days like these would never end, or at least that his parents would return to see them.
A few hours after Discord had showed Locus the candy woods the colt was flying around the chaotic landscape. He had one goal in mind, the tear in time and space that Discord had built a white tower around. A tower that as far Locus knew no one could enter.
The young pony landed and looked at the white structure, the thing standing out in the kingdom of chaos by not being weird or "Discord-ian" in any way. But then again it might also been part of the chaos, a normal thing, mixed in with the mad landscape around it.
Locus flew up to the flat top of the tower, the white structure bearing the shape of a cylinder built with marble. It was seemingly just a dense white pillar in the middle of nowhere and it held nothing special but a half circle of runes at the bottom of itself which one could say looked like a door.
Whatever magic had constructed that half ring of runes was neither his parents magic, chaos magic or light magic the rest of the races liked to use. So what had made it? It had to have been something strong or the runes would activate from the amount of mana the tear was expelling out into the mad landscape.
With what magic classes Locus's parents had forced him to have he knew that runes were not limited to one type of magic, being able to be created by any type of magic, being infused with that magic's typical kind of power. This was all he knew however, the kittens of doom having made it impossible to hear the rest of what his mother had said with their constant meowing.
The colt didn't know how to open the door (or what he assumed was a door) so he tried other things, one being to try to create a hole in space-time as his parents had done before him. The only problem was his own inexperience about the subject and the chaos magic in the air.
The first tear he tried to create exploded in a shock-wave of puppies, sending him screaming over the trees surrounded by a fluffy ball of barking and biting. The second at attempt had to be made once Discord was actually sleeping as the lord of chaos had not been happy with his little brother creating more things to feed.
The second try went a little better, only ending with creating a tiny pocket dimension where only one mouth existed that was consonantly smiling. Deciding to have non of that the colt had locked the weird creepy smile behind using a bolder to hide away the hole in reality that led to the creepy mouth.
The third try resulted in a tear, but not a tear that really led anywhere as the hole in reality bore a blue edge and just held a black nothingness inside itself. The colt was getting annoyed by his continued failures and he decided to attempt a fourth time only for Discord to find him and scold him.
Locus waited two weeks after that, just enjoying playtime and history lessons with his older brother. Discord taught him about the the tribal zebra land to the north he didn't care to conquer, feeling like the land they had was enough to play around with.
When Locus had asked about other ponies like him the dracoonequs had thought long and hard, moonwalking in the air as he threw his brain around to shake up memories within it. How he had removed his brain from his head in the first place bothered the colt but he did not wanna annoy Discord so he sat there and waited for an answer.
"I have seen two like you and your parents a long time ago. One claimed to hold power over creation and the other over the soul" The god of chaos started.
"The mare's name was Faust, she claimed to have been born to the mistress of all, destiny, to overlook the harmony of all things and the natural order" The dracoonequs told Locus, continuing their history lesson.
"The stallion she always carried with her was named Aorum, created by destiny to help Faust. He was given command over the soul and because of that he could always get anyone to do his bidding or follow his order. A rather annoying ability I might add" Discord muttered the last part.
"This Alicorn power couple created the very planet we now stand on, and then they created the rest of the inhabitants here in Equs" Discord said and the colt looked at him in awe as his mind made up images of two alicorns creating a planet.
"So they created you as well?" He asked the god of chaos who started to laugh.
"Created me? Oh no dear child, I was made to cont-react destiny. There has to be chaos for there to be harmony you see, which is fine by me, it means that I can do whatever I want really" Discord grinned and snapped his talons, the mountain in the distance exploding into a wave of worms that grew angel wings.
The colt was confused at first before just accepting that the mountain had something to do with winged worms, that or he had to learn that there was no pattern to his big brother's madness, something that gave the child a big headache if it was all truly nonsensical.
"Can you create a planet too then?" Locus asked Discord who sat down on his throne (the thing just being there all of a sudden) and placed his lion paw on his chin in thought.
"Possibly, but I don't want the responsibility that comes with managing a planet, nor creating a magic seal on the sun and the moon" The dracoonequs stated and the colt looked confused.
"Magic seal?.." He questioned only for Discord to pull out a large lollipop and giving it to him, the young pony making an excited horse noise before running off with the lollipop twice his size, determined to keep if for himself and away from any of the candy creatures liquorice tongues.
Having distracted Locus from his question Discord went back to making his landscape dance under his gaze, the entire land becoming a blur of colours and sounds as what seemed like a nationwide festival was started for his own chaotic inhabitants.
It was to weeks after Discords small history lesson that Locus once again tried to get into the white tower in an attempt to figure out anything about his parents. He tried once again to call for his special magic and he focused on the empty spot in front of his head, steam rising from his horn as both his eyes glowed brightly.
At first it seemed to bring no result, the only thing happened being a swirl of dust and dirt being created in front of him. Yet the more power he put into the spell his mother had taught him the faster the dust particles and dirt swirled, a little black ball in the middle of the swirling mass slowly being created.
With a big surge of magical energy directed at the ball it expanded to a tear, the hole in time and space seemingly just being a dead end until he could see something on the other side of the tear, a white staircase surrounded by smooth white walls that formed into a cylinder in shape.
'The tower!' Locus thought and tried to expand the tear that was in front of him, barely big enough to fit his head. Yet something went horribly wrong, similarly to when his mother and father had tried to open a rift in the land of chaos two years prior.
Where the first led was decided by Locus wish, meaning it could take him to any place he wanted to, which was shown with the other side of the rift showing the destination the traveler would like to visit. Yet where he once could see the insides of the rather plain white tower there was now only darkness.
He was confused at first before the rift suddenly exploded with magical energy, sending a bright red beam up into the air that seemed to be constructed of pure mana. The shock-wave of the explosion sent the colt backwards into the sir, screaming for help as his body was familiarly paralyzed.
Locus landed with a grunt and he groaned in pain, looking at the black ball that now started to spin, the dirt, dust and rocks along with candy on the ground started to built up an impressive swirl that then just got sucked into the tear, suddenly the black ball sucking in anything loose in its close vicinity.
Just as the colt started to being able to move his limbs once again the tear started to pull on him, Locus giving off a shriek of fear as he was pulled towards the black ball that only grew in size. He called out for help as he was suddenly picked up into the air, flying towards the tear he had made.
The thing saving him from being sucked into the black ball was Discord suddenly grabbing hold of his right back leg, the dracoonequs holding an umbrella with his talons to not being sucked into the tear himself, how that worked Locus wouldn't even question.
The chimera growled and with all his strength, both magical and physical, he yanked Locus away from the tear and dropped the umbrella, flying towards the black hovering ball that was the size of a small bolder. White lightning crackled around his paw and talon and he let it lash out onto the tear, the thing exploding the same second the lightning made contact with it.
The explosion sent Discord back, hitting the ground with a grunt as the weird magic that had opened the tear paralyzed him as well for a second. After laying on the ground for a moment he got up and looked around, making sure that the tear was completely gone before he looked at the colt with a snarl.
"I told you how dangerous it was when it came to mixing chaos magic with your magic! Yet you tried it again! You could have really hurt yourself Locus!" Discord growled and the colt bowed his head in shame.
"I'm sorry big brother.." The colt said with his ears down and Discord looked at him before sighing, dropping the scowl that was on his face.
"Why would you do that? I warned you about what could happen Locus! I thought you understood how dangerous it was!" The dracoonequs said, sounding sad and stressed.
"I just wanted to see them again.." Locus mumbled to Discord who stopped in his scolding and he looked sadly at his younger brother.
"I miss them so much.." The colt said and started to sob, letting all the sadness over loosing his parents over Discord.
The god of chaos frowned as Locus started to cry, unsure on how to handle a child this sad. He had never even seen the kid this distraught before and he didn't even understand why Locus hadn't just told him about the situation before it had led up to this. But then again, he was always trying to make the kid smile, perhaps he hadn't noticed when Locus was frowning.
Doing the only thing he knew could help Discord picked up the colt and hugged him, letting the ball of white fur and feathers in his arms cry out all his pain. They just stood there for a while before Locus finally calmed down and Discord let him down on the ground.
"Sorry.." The colt mumbled again and the dracoonequs just brushed it off.
"You have nothing to apologize for" Discord smiled and walked away from the tower.
"Just make sure you don't do that in the future" The god said before looking at the sky, as he was starting to lower the sun he noticed how he suddenly loosed his grip on it, the thing lowering by itself. This made the king of all things chaos very confused, mostly because it was his job to look cool and have all the magical power, so who else was showing off with lowering the sun?
The dracoonequs just ignored it, if some other divine creature wanted to show of then he could be Discord's guests, he just wanted to make sure Locus was happy and would nor try to open up another rift. He hoped that he could keep the colt happy now when he realized just how easily Locus hid his feelings from him. He needed to step up his game.
~~Many miles from there~~
Celestia's horn glowed a bright gold as she let the sun set beyond the horizon, her magic having felt another tug on the celestial body earlier that had confused her. Yet the alicorn mare let it go, assuming it was just the strange chaotic landscape's doing.
She looked around at the ever chaining land and shuddered, wondering what evil twisted thing could take such a beautiful country and turn it into this chaotic mess. The mare hoped that she and her sister could rid these lands of this horrible curse soon, the pony tribes having barely survived their journey to this land they had named Equestria.
The first valleys they had found had been unaffected by the strangeness and it had shown sings of promise for the rest of the land. That was before they had seen the twisted landscape before them, being met by hostility by the local weird wildlife and trees.
Celestia had seen the creature she thought was behind it from a distance, it's body made up from many different animal parts. She had seen it command the land like it was it's playground, it's hollow chuckle having made her feel fear for the ponies that she and her sister now protected.
The alicorn had brought Luna to speak with the creature a few days after they had discovered the land and she hoped that she could at first come to some sort of terms with the creature. Of course she also expected it to try to eat them so her hopes for negotiations were not high.
"Stop the chaos? You must understand that this is a piece of art my dear dear children. It's the bubble rapper being popped, the perfectly cut cake, the sensation of unlocking a chest with obscenely amounts of gold within it. I couldn't stop this chaos if I so wanted to. I am Discord, god of chaos, it's kind of my thing" The creature had told her and her younger sister before growling at them.
"Now. Leave" He had hissed and turned away from them both, making Celestia mad and annoyed that this divine creature was denying the poor ponies entry and stability on this land.
She first took a step towards him only for the ground to rise up and push her backwards, a blast of magic sending the lunar mare the same direction. The chaos spirit just looked at the two, making sure they got his message before turning back to his chaos.
The two Alicorns left the chaos spirit behind and they followed something strange within the strangeness, a feeling of peace and harmony in the middle of a forest made out of candy. They both unfolded their wings and flew towards the woods, looking at the canyon that laid in the middle of it.
"This feels weird sister, this place is special and I'm unsure if we should disturb it or not" The lunar mare said to her older sister who ignored her warning and landed, walking into a cave that held a weird glow to it's opening. The magic that came off from the place was very mixed. They could feel some of the strangeness but not all of it, and mixed in with it was all from light magic to dark magic.
"This has to be the place Starswirl talked about Luna! This has to be home for the elements!" Celestia said with a big smile.
The old wizard had talked about a place where the elements of harmony, old relics from a bygone age, had been stored using a crystal tree. These artifacts was said to hold some power from Faust herself, from their mother, and that it gave the users the ability to bring balance to the world around them.
The celestial mare knew that it had to have been their mother and father that had made these powerful artifacts for them, it had to that way. The only reason their old mentor had known about these elements were because Faust had told him so. Yet that also meant their mother must have planted them into this land knowing it would grow chaotic and unruly. They had put them here to cleanse away the strangeness.
Celestia now looked upon this tree and her sister walked up to the crystalline structure, each branch holding a mark which represented one of the elements. With this power they could make the land normal again! They could give the ponies the land they had asked for!
"We will use these relics to force Discord to change the country back to how it was supposed to be. He will have to bow down for the power of our mother" Celestia said and lit her horn, her magic touching the middle of the crystal tree trunk and the marks in each branch opening up like flower petals.
Out from the tree came the magical gems, the elements of harmony. Celestia knew what they represented from Starswirl's mad ravings. Loyalty, laughter, kindness, honesty, generosity and magic. The parts of which the strongest bonds where built of. Yet there was not six, but seven gems that the tree gave them. This seventh gem being a bright white.
"Will these help us take down the mad chimera?" Luna asked her as she observed the three of the elements that was flying around her, the gems glowing softly from the presence of those that was supposed to use them against Discord and all other evils that came for the land of Equestria.
"We will banish him to Tartarus if we have to. The ponies needs this land and his days of playing a god is over" Celestia said and put the four elements surrounding her in the saddle bags she was carrying, hoping that they could get Discord of his throne before the day was over.
What the seventh element represented she did not know, but as it had chosen her it must work either way. She just hoped that the gem would be fully usable when one did not know it's true nature, that it would not reject them using it without knowing what it could do.
~~Back at Locus and Discord's hut~~
The colt looked at his older brother in confusion as the lord of all insane things sipped around the candy woods, bringing back black seeds in bags. Locus had no idea what those things where gonna grow once planted but their black colour seemed to hint at at it being nothing good.
"What are you gonna grow?" He asked Discord who turned to him with a strained smile.
"Just some garden plants! Some black roses and the like" The chimera said and thew some of them out on the ground, the seeds digging into the dirt like they had a mind of their own.
"Can I help you?" Locus asked with a smile and flew up to Discord's face, the dracoonequs biting his lip.
"Sadly not. You see, these are special seeds and need my magic and special care" Discord told him and the colt's ears fell.
"Oh.." He said sadly before his older brother picked him up.
"Just stay away from me and my garden today and I will give you a rabbit with a tongue made out of fire and a tail made out of a wig" The chimera stated and Locus nodded eagerly, that rabbit sounding like a very dangerous and fun toy.
With that the god of chaos zipped around his throne and planted the plunder seeds, hoping they would be enough to stop any attacks from the two divine mares. Locus safety had to be his first priority and he knew the power and arrogance of the pony tribes along with the hubris of a goddess's children.
He worked quickly to get the plunder seeds into the ground. If all went well they would grab the two the same second they stepped their hooves upon his ground again. With them captured he could convince the tribes to leave his kingdom alone and then return their two leaders.
He was unsure if blasting them earlier had been a good idea. If anything it had just made them even more determined to fight back against him and his magical hold on this land. Yet it had been his decision at the time, he needed to keep Locus away from those tribes. A male alicorn was a rare sight, even rarer one that was a decedent of two different gods.
If they knew what power Locus could command one day they would not leave without him, his power a fast lane ticket to land, power and weird pancake towers. No! They would not take him and use him for their own gain, Discord would rather die before letting that happen.
The god of chaos had taught the colt a spell to hide his wings and make his eyes look normal, a way to hide hat he truly was but for a moment from those two goddess born or the tribes. Yet it was not a perfect spell, needing constant energy and focus to keep it up. Yet he knew it was that or the other ponies taking him away.
Once Discord was sure of that his throne and all ground around it was Alicorn safe he sat down and waited, knowing that the two had to come back to him sooner then later. When he was sure the tribes would leave he would send back the two divine creatures on a paper airplane, shrinked down to cause as little harm as possible. When they all left he and hsi brother would finally be safe again.
~~Meanwhile at the ponies camp~~
As Luna walked back with her older sister next to her she was happy to know that the older mare would have her back during the coming confrontation. She hoped that these elements would keep Discord at bay long enough for them to cleanse the land from the chaotic magic.
The lunar mare sat down next to one of the many campfires in the large camp, over three hundred tents building up a miniature city in the middle of the wilderness. Her dark blue mane which seemingly held the entire night sky within it flowed in an non existent wind as she warmed up by the camp fire, enjoying the sound ponies laughing and talking whit one another.
Celestia walked away to inform the tribe leaders of what had happened during the two's little expedition and how they would cure the land from this strange magic and remove the mad chimera from his throne. Luna just wanted them to move already, defeat Discord using their mother's relics.
Yet she sat around and waited for Celestia's return, her older sister returning after some time as they both moved away from the campfire and unfolded their wings. It was time to pay Dsicord a visit and take this land for the poor and needing ponies. This land had to be a gift from Faust, otherwise she would not have placed the elements there to begin with.
~~Meanwhile in Locus' hut~~
The colt waited for his older brother to come back from the garden he was planting and he hoped that the flowers would look cool like most of Discord's creations. It might even be licourice flowers! His mouth watered at the mere thought of such a thing.
Yet the more he waited the less likely it seemed for the Dracoonequs to return in this millennium, making the young pony bored and groan in frustration. He laid on his bed like that for a long time before finally deciding to go find his older brother, rabbit with fire tongue or not. ¨
Once he finally located his brother's throne he saw him talk with what looked like two mares, one with dark blue fur and mane while the other had white fur with a rainbow coloured mane and tail. The second mare looked ridiculous to Locus. Not that her star themes companion was any better.
He sneaked up behind his smaller throne right next to Discord's to hear and see better what was going on, his big brother making a reality breaking pun like always by suddenly holding up the rainbow coloured tail from the taller mare. He stiffled a giggle at her angry expression as she eyed the chimera god, really getting annoyed with him.
The two mares brought out seven weird looking gems which glowed weirdly, they spoke about that those things could defeat his brother. Defeat? That made him laugh a little, no one could defeat his big brother! He was invincible and the most powerful creature around.
Discord was munching away at a bag of those seeds he had planted earlier and he just laughed at the two mares serious expressions that their faces carried, still laughing as the gems started to glow and spin really really quickly around the two intruders, creating a bubble of mana around them.
As they rose into the air and a rainbow coloured beam rose into the air aimed for his big brother Locus reacted quickly, unfolding his wings and flying in front of the beams trajectory. He could see the horrified look Discord bore on his face as he reached out with his lion paw to grab Locus only for the beam to hit him first.
The colt gave of a scared shriek as the beam hit him, his vision becoming a white blur. For both Discord and two mares they could see the colt's body being hit by the beam before he was turned to a white energy, the thing quickly disappearing into the air.
Discord gave off a veil of sorrow before the beam hit him and turned him into stone, his eyes filled with horror and his lion paw reaching out. The now stone statue hit the ground with thud and the same second it did so the chaotic magic over the landscape went away, disappearing like a wave.
The two mares stood there silently for a moment and tried to not think about the colt's horrified scream before the beam had dissolved him. It had been an accident! They never wanted to hurt anyone! This was not what was supposed to have happened.
As the two just stood there the big throne and the smaller version of itself next to it disappeared and they were soon surrounded by cheering ponies who saw the stone statue of Discord, the two mares keeping away the tears of shame. This was for the tribes right? It had to have been worth it. Right?..
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