Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony, and I do not own The Hunchback of Notre Dame or the songs.

It was a crystal blue day in a city that looked like it was in the 1400s. There were many ponies running around having fun, some ponies were hanging up their laundry on strings over the streets, and some ponies were selling stuff from their markets.

Morning in Pony Le Pu, the city awakes

To the bells of Pony Le Pu

The city was known as Pony Le Pu. There was another pony was fishing, while another pony was getting his bread ready to sell.

The fishing pony fishes, the baking pony bakes

To the bells of Pony Le Pu

Then the scene shifts to a big bell tower where the bells were ringing. It was the biggest building in the city.

To the big bells loud as the thunder

To the little bells soft as a tune

And some say the soul of the city of the toll

Of the bells, the bells of Pony Le Pu

The main focus though was with a group of foals were all sitting around in front of a theatre, and there stood a purple pony with black hair and a black mustache and beard, and he wore a yellow poncho and a purple pirate hat, and a red mask around his eyes. That pony was singing the song, and he was about to do a puppet show.

"Listen they're beautiful. So many colors of sound, so many changing moods, because you know they don't ring all by themselves," said the masked pony.

"They don't?" said the pony's puppet.

"No, you silly boy," said the masked pony, "No, up there, high, high in the dark bell tower, lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?"

"Who?" the pony's puppet replied.

"What is he?" the masked pony questioned.

"What?" the pony's puppet replied.

"How did he come to be there?" the masked pony questioned.

"How?" the pony's puppet replied.

"Hush," said the masked pony as he hit him on the head.

"Ow," the pony's puppet replied.

"Puppeteer will tell you," Puppeteer said, "It is a tale, a tale of a man…and a monster."

Flashback-Pony Le Pu 20 Years ago

The scene shows four alicorn ponies and a crying baby on a canoe on a cold snowy night.

There were two parent alicorns where the colt was light gray and had a long straight black mane with a mustache while wearing a purple hat and a red cape, and the mare was gold had a short black mane while wearing a purple hood and gold beads on her head.

The pony who rowed the boat was dark green wearing a red hood, while the other alicorn was a little bit of a lighter green with a black mustache while wearing a red hood on his head. Puppeteer was about to continue his song.

Dark was the night when our tale was begun

On the docks of Pony Le Pu

"Shut it up, will you?" said the father pony.

"We'll be spotted!" exclaimed the rower.

"Hush, little one," said the mother pony.

Four frightened alicorns slid silently under

The docks near Pony Le Pu

"Four guilders for safe passage into Pony Le Pu," said the rower.

Then an arrow came out of nowhere where it showed four guard ponies who were gray wearing gray helmets, and purple capes. All of them were holding spears as they approached the three alicorns and the pony.

A trap had been laid for the alicorns

And they gazed up in fear and alarm

They pointed the spears at the three alicorns

At a figure whose clutches

Were iron as much as the bells

A shadowy figure was approaching the alicorns, and they all turned their heads to see who that shadowy figure was coming.

"Judge Clyde Mareister," said the father pony.

Of the bells of Pony Le Pu

The pony that was coming forward was tall and dark gray, had a short gray mane and tail with white on its hooves, fiery red eyes, and wore a black cape, a gray protector, a purple tri-corner hat with a red ribbon on the back, and a silver necklace with a holy cross. He was approaching the alicorns.

Judge Clyde Mareister longed to purge the world of vice and sin

The guard grabbed the father alicorn, and cuffed him up along with the other alicorn and the rower of the canoe.

And he saw corruption everywhere except within

"Bring these alicorn vermin to the palace of justice," Mareister ordered the guards.

"You there, what are you hiding," the guard questioned while grabbing the mother alicorn with the baby.

"Stolen goods, no doubt," said Mareister, "Take them from her."

"She ran," Puppeteer told the audience.

The mother alicorn ran from Judge Mareister to protect her baby, but he just kept gaining up on her. She turned a sharp corner, but Mareister did the same thing to keep up with the alicorn. She was running out of breath as Mareister was coming close. Then the mother alicorn finally arrived at the cathedral with her baby, and started to bang on the door.

"Sanctuary! Please, give us sanctuary," the mother alicorn cried as she banged on the door.

Judge Mareister was closing in, and the mother alicorn was about to take off with her wings, but she was too late. As she was about to lift off, Mareister grabbed the baby, snatched it from her, and knocked her to the ground where she hit her head on the steps and died.

"A baby?" Mareister questioned as he heard the crying, and looked at the baby, "A monster!"

Mareister covered up the baby, and noticed that there was a well just within a couple of feet. Mareister took the baby to the well where he held it over, and was prepared to drop the baby inside.

"Stop!" the archdeacon exclaimed.

The archdeacon pony was a white pony with gold hoofs, and had a short gray mane while wearing a red hood with a gold holy cross. He stopped Mareister from dropping the baby.

"This is an unholy demon. I'm sending it back to hell where it belongs," Mareister explained.

The archdeacon then began to sing as he picked up the dead alicorn.

See, there, the innocent blood you have spilt

On the steps of Pony Le Pu

"I am guiltless, she ran, I pursued," Mareister explained.

Now you would add this foal's blood to your guilt

On the steps of Pony Le Pu

"My conscience is clear," Mareister replied.

You can lie to yourself and your minions

You can claim that haven't a rue

But you never can from nor hide what you've done from the eyes

The archdeacon pointed its hoofs to the statues of horses. The horse statues all had a full mane and a beard while wearing a robe holding a spear.

The very eyes of Pony Le Pu

Mareister started to look at all of the statues in the eyes, and he was starting to feel the fear within himself. Puppeteer started to sing again.

And for one time in his life of power and control

Mareister felt a twinge of fear for his immortal soul

"What must I do," Mareister asked.

"Care for the foal and raise it as your own," said the archdeacon as he carried the dead mother alicorn.

"What? I am to be saddled with this misshapen," said Mareister, "Very well, but let him live with you in your church.

"Live here? Where?" the archdeacon asked.

"Anywhere," Mareister answered as he started to sing looking at the bell tower.

Just so he's kept locked away where no one else can see

"The bell tower perhaps," Mareister said, "and who knows? Our lord works in mysterious ways."

Mareister started to sing yet again as he looked at the baby.

Even this foul creature may yet prove one day to be

Of use to me

Pony Le Pu-Back to the present day

Puppeteer pulled his red cape back as he continued to tell the foals the story of the mysterious bell ringer.

"And Mareister gave the child a cruel name, a name that means disharmony and chaos, Discord," Puppeteer told the audience.

Puppeteer returned to singing as he shows a puppet of Judge Mareister taking the deformed baby foal up into the bell tower that was painted in the background of his set.

Now here is a riddle to guess if you can

Sing the bells of Pony Le Pu

The puppet became a silhouette where another puppet in the form of Discord that was also a silhouette walked up the set stairs.

Who is the monster and who is the man

The discord puppet started to ring a bell that was behind the silhouette.

Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells of Pony Le Pu!

An illusion of Discord was seen ringing the bells of the cathedral using his chaotic magic to create more arms to pull the ropes. The bells rung all over the city, and Discord happily brushed his paw and claw. The bell tower was Discord's true home, but he hasn't been there in two days.

"But why have the bells not rang for two days," one of the foals questioned, "Is the bell ringer sick?"

"It's a mystery that none of us know. The only person who could probably know is Judge Clyde Mareister," said Puppeteer as he looked up at the bell tower.

As you can see, the town in this story and the cathedral name are the same. I have altered some of the words in the songs, and I do not own those songs. Hope you continue reading.