Starswirl's Frankenstein (An MLP Fanfic)

Starswirl's Frankenstien

(Cover art made by a good friend of mine, @Phantom3r. Story based on song above.)

           

"Discord?" Fluttershy pushed the front door of the draconequus' home open, careful not to drop her basket. It was the second time they'd arranged tea at his place, and, since the first time, he had summoned a little portal to his pocket dimension in her cottage so she was able to come and go as she pleased. "I'm sorry I'm a little early, I was just so–"

          She was cut off by the sound of a piano, the soft notes putting her in a trance of sorts. The melody was haunting, beautiful, and saddening all at the same time. The little pegasus was content to close her eyes and listen, completely transfixed by the music. Then her eyes snapped open as the singing started.

          "They used to call me monster... I made them call me king... I ruled by might and terror... I could do anything..."

          It was somehow possible for Discord's voice to make the song even more haunting, and Fluttershy could physically feel the emotion behind it, even from those few lines. Setting down her basket, she crept through the house, intent on finding the chaos spirit as he played on.

          "But monsters don't just happen... There's reasons that we're bad... And now I can remember... The one who turned me mad... The one I called my dad..."

          And there he was, hidden away in a back corner of the house that she was almost positive didn't exist a couple weeks ago, completely oblivious to her presence as she watched him play, or, if he was aware, he just didn't care. Fluttershy nearly let out a squeak of surprise as smoke erupted from the floor, swirling in the air to form figures as Discord sang on.

"For I am Starswirl's Frankenstein... I was his flawed masterpiece... He tried to conjure perfection... But a monster was all he released..."

          The smoke took the form of a unicorn in a billowing robe, one that she could only presume to be Starswirl the Bearded. The silhouette of the famous wizard danced around the draconquus' head as said being focused on his music, eyes closed as he lost himself in what he was creating.

          "A genus, but lonely magician... Was Starswirl the Bearded, the Great... He was honored, respected, a legend... A master of wisdom and fate..."

          The smoky Starswirl began to shake hooves with other smoky ponies that formed out of thin air, peering into crystal balls, and at one point was on a stage appearing to give a lecture, two familiar silhouettes of the of the Equestrian princesses in the first row of the model auditorium before it all went up in a violent puff of smoke, leaving just Starswirl.

          "But the old mage didn't have one thing... Companionship–he was alone... So he thought that he could create it... The perfect heir, son of his own... If only, if only he'd known..."

          A small unicorn appeared next to the wizard, clearly a foal, until it, too, went up in smoke, replaced instead by a pair of fearsome eyes that Fluttershy could recognize anywhere, even filled with the malice and rage they were in the smoke, before they melted away.

          "For I am Starswirl's Frankenstein... I was his flawed masterpiece... He tried to conjure perfection... But a monster was all he released..."

          A large spell book appeared and Starswirl was immediately absorbed in it, ignoring the cages that began to appear, as Discord hummed along to his own melody, the music clearly taking him back to days long passed, before he was shut up in stone, before anything had gone wrong. It was almost hypnotizing, watching the embodiment of chaos sway and hum to his own evocative melodies.