Mysterious Arrival

Nothing could stop her flight as Fiery flew towards the library, crying on the way. Her true identity was about to be revealed once more and that was something she certainly didn't want to happen.

Baltimare, Manehatten.... it started this way everywhere. But eventually it got clear to the citizen her powers were much more than turning things to gold. Ponies started to fear her and wonder is she a pony or not. Eventually it all ended up bad: everypony were hostile to her and she had no choice but to leave.

She didn't want that to happen here. For the first time in years she found a place that felt like the home she never had. In her real home she was loved, but everything revolved around her other side. And now she took a hard decision. No matter how she felt and no matter Twilight and Spike were the only friends she had... she had to stay away and perhaps adopt Spike's tactic. Yes, that was just what she was about to do! Thus she wouldn't lose them as friends and they would never ever find about anything more about her. Nothing!

Flying in the cold air, she was noticed by few. However, her tears fell down... and melted the snow where they fell. Some ponies even claimed, that it was raining hot water from the winter sky.

Fiery soon reached the library and quickly sneaked in, heading for Twilight's bedroom. There she could let out her tears. They weren't tears of sadness, but of fear. Ponies here knew nothing about her... and it would have been better if it stayed this way.

Alone she cried, away from the world. But what problems was Twilight speaking about? It didn't matter. They surely weren't as serious as hers, and surely they were problems, that could be shared. But Fiery couldn't share hers. They were only hers and nopony else's.

Hope... it was gone. Hope, that she could live as a normal pony. She guessed her sister was right. Her last words echoed through her mind:

" Why be normal, when you can be the greatest? Why live alone and in terrible fear, when you can be surrounded by the ones who adore you? Why? Tell me why, FIERY!?!

' Why? ' the mare replied in her mind ' Because this isn't a gift... it's a curse. '

The residents of Ponyville were still wondering about the hot rain, that hit them a minute ago. Small holes in the three feet thick snow were spread from the Sweet Apple Acres all the way to the Golden Oaks Library. The grass could be seen in these holes. If they weren't so deep they could have explained it with a crying pegasus... but tears, that melt three feet of snow? No! It certainly was something suspicious and the most clever would soon follow the trails to the two ends and either scare Twilight or frighten Fiery with knowing about this strange event, but luckily they were soon given an extremely convenient cause of the hot water rain.

" Hmm -ha - humm. " Discord was strolling around the streets of Ponyville. Before the summer events with the Elements of Harmony being removed from their bearers and returned to the Tree of Harmony, he preferred to stroll somewhere else, after he could aford it. But after being convinced by those events and the other adventures before, that Ponyville is the place where everything happens, he didn't leave the town at all. He had built a small house on the roof of " The Horror House ", Ponyville's newest attraction, run by Hase's three old friends, because he enjoyed the company of somepony so chaotic as the Scarlet Witchmare and everyday ponies could see him stretch over their rooftops and circle the town, causing small, unharmful chaos. And since those holes were such a case, most of the ponies immeadietly linked them to the chaotical being.

Some were even laughing at being so concerned about them, as they had the spirit of chaos for a neighbour.

While the dragonecqueus was walking around and watching the shops' showcases, a small colt stood in his way. Surprised, Discord lowered his head to the ground and found out the pony was Pipsqueak.

" You said it was going to be hot chocolate rain, and not hot water rain! " the colt hit the ground with his hoof, while Discord just laughed:

" Why do you think I would pull up such an amateur trick as hot water rain? That's boring! Here! " the chaotical being cracked with fingers and a small cloud appeared over the colt's head and started raining hot chocolate. Happy, Pipsqueak opened his mouth at the sky and swallowed as much hot chocolate as he could.

Meanwhile the dragonecqeus was wondering what was Pipsqeak talking about. Hot water? Why would anypony think Discord had fallen so low to cause hot water rain? That was nothing special! He asked several ponies about it and they were surprised to find out, that Discord isn't responsible for the rain. That caused Discord to smile and press his fingers against the ones on his other hand.

" We've got ourselves a rookie. I knew Twilight would eventually love it! "

Cracking with fingers again, a cotton candy cloud appeared and Discord ordered it to search the area for Twilight Sparkle. The cloud soon returned and spread into a map, showing Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight, a small figure, soaked with chocolate milk, was just about to get over the hills and walk down to Ponyville. Discord smiled and with a crack of his fingers dissapeared again.

Twilight still hadn't got better when with the sound of fanfares and  ridiculous happy scarecrows Discord appeared out of nowhere.

" Congrats! " he shouted so loud, that the snow fell off the nearby trees and nearly blew away Twilight and Spike.

" Congrats for finally realising the good side of chaos! " the dragonecqueus shook the hoof of the purple alicorn, who still couldn't process what's happening.

" I admit the hot water rain was a bit pathetic, so I will be giving lessons... " glasses appeared on Discord's head and suddenly he was dressed in an official suit. A big scroll appeared in his hands and rolled all the way to Twilight.

" .... I'll be giving lessons from 10 to 12 every Saturday! With my help you would be able to learn some more laughable stuff than just hot water, for an example turning the snow to soap! " Discord pointed his finger at the ground and suddenly the area around them turned to soap, causing twilight and Spike to slip and fall. After he laughed for a second, Discord blew at the soap and snowflakes appeared in his breathe, turning the soap back to snow, but because there was some left on Twilight's chin she ended up with a snow beard like Starswirl the Bearded, which caused yet another wave of laughter for Discord and the scarecrows.

Twilight shook her head, which caused the beard to fall off, and forgeting about her worries for a second, replied to the chaotical being:

" Discord, what do you mean? I don't need any chaotical lessons! "

" You do, if you want to cast something more than that hot water rain. " Discord noted and the glasses and the suit dissapeared.

" I didn't cast any spell for hot water rain! " Twilight protested. Discord's jaw literally fell to the ground:

" You didn't ?!? But than.... " before he could finish his sentence he dissappeared, leaving Spike and Twilight completely confused.

" Who might it be? " Discord hovered in the air in an armchair, wearing a detective hat,  a long grey coat and with a bubble pipe stuck in his mouth.

" Can it be... the dragon? " a pair of binoculars appeared with a puff and the chaos spirit neared them to his eyes, observing the purple dragon from above. Discord thre away the binoculars and his expression went stern as he mused:

" Unless he could sneeze so far he isn't the solution. And the witnesses cliam it was hot water and not dragon spit! ( ' Too gross even for me! eeyuk! ' the dragonecqueus thought to himself) Sooo... it was probably somepony on the other end! " the creature of chaos grinned and cracked with fingers, causing a strange uncomfortably big machine, that resembled... nothing, really. It looked like a sort of a device, that somepony would probably have no idea what to use for.

However Discord used it as his detecting device. On it's side there stood the following inscription:

" Discord's refined ( and patented, don't you dare steal my idea ( or dare, I don't care! ) detecting device. If found, please don't return ,but use for anything but the best purposes. "

" Voila! " the dragonecqueus detected a pony inside of the Golden Oaks Library and quickly folded the device, only to unfold it again, but this time it turned to a big rocket with a red, sharp head. Discord wrapped a rope around his waist and the other end he glued to the head of the rocket. He cracked with fingers, and a spark caused the rear end of the rocket to exhaust fumes. The rocket's rear end went forward and the front one went backward, causing the rocket to nearly smash it's own middle, but than it returned to its normal state and flew to the library with an incredible speed. The large flames, that came out from the rear end obviously didn't burn the rope and Discord even made some BBQ. Sadly for him, because of the sudden halt of the rocket Discord, the BBQed onions and peppers flew, carried by their innertion, and stuck in the snow.  Angry at it, Discord shot a small bolt of lightning with his dragon hand and that snow immeadietly got melted.

Before entering the house a nasty thought of responsibility made its way to the mind of the dragonecqueus. He sighed. Sometimes he missed the old days, when he wouldn't care about leaving an extrememly dangerous thermite- fueled rocket like this, where anypony could have ritten it and get hurt, but now he was reformed. So he cracked, this time using his tail, and a small frog was tied to the rope. Discord laughed, but than regained his serious expression and commanded:

" Toad, you are hereby promoted for the rocket guardian! Don't let anypony ride my rocket! "

" DOON'T! " the toad replied,using " Don't "  instead of " Wribbit. " or another frog sound. Discord laughed and than opened the door.

" Oh my! This place is tragic! Has Twilight never heard of decoration? " Discord spoke his thoughts out loud and this resulted in a brilliant thought replacing those, who were spoken out loud.

Discord cracked with fingers and his army of scarecrows entered the room and started decorating. They even brought a pine tree. Since Fiery hadn't lit the candles, it was already getting a bit dark, Discord summonned a big cannon on a platform. He quickly jumped in the pilot's speed and a voice from the cannon warned:

" Please, remain seated and keep your hands and legs in at all times. "

Discord grinned and turned the cannon on. Moving on rails, that Discord caused to appear, the cannon shot chains of light in all directions, going all around the library and even moving on walls. Surprisingly, there wasn't great chaos, since Discord somehow managed to shoot all the lights( since those were magical " lights on lines" ) with a sort of pattern, that made the interior of the library gain the Warming spirit it missed.

Meanwhile the scarecrows were putting toys on the pine tree. Of course, so that the residents could be sure who brought them this decoration most of the toys represented Discord in some way and very little space on the tree was left for the traditional decorations - most of the tree was covered either in the shining ropes or in the miniature glass statues of Discord.

There wasn't a way this couldn't bring Fiery out of her dark mood and make her ask herself what the hay was going on. From the sounds the only thing she could guess was somepony was firing at the library using an artillery cannon. And she wasn't letting her friend's house getting destroyed.

However, when she came downstairs, she litterally froze. A big black canon was defying all laws of physics and going wherever it wanted to, including the wall and the ceiling and even the book shelves while meanwhile shooting beatiful shining decorations. Scarecrows, come to life, were decorating a big Warming tree with... were that miniature glass Discord-s?

The canon stopped right in front of her and the spirit of chaos jumped out. Obviously he was looking for her, because he asked:

" So, young lady, I guess you committed that magnificent act of pure flattery out there? "

" What? " Fiery didn't even get what he said.

" Shortly: Did you cause the hot rain? I am interested in teaching chaos to the talented and I will be at your service... " again he turned to the manager with the glasses, the suit and the scroll

" ... every Saturday from 8 to 10. How about that? " he stretched his lion paw to her.

" What do you mean? " the pegasus asked again.

Discord sighed deeply. He had to explain it.

" There is a trail of holes, that penetrate the three feet snow all the way to the bottom. That trail leads from Sweet Apple Acres to here. Some ponies have complained from hot rain. According to my deductive skillss.... " the bubble pipe appeared again in his mouth

" ... the only option is you. I've interrogated young miss Twilight and she denied that she had anything in common with this peculiar case. " the hat also reappeared.

" So that leaves us nopony but you! What's your name, student? " Discord asked.

" Fiery. " the orange maned mare introduced herself, thinking over how had this happenned. It obviously was caused by her, but how....

" My tears... " she whispered, but felt something poke in her head. When she turned around, she saw that Discord now had a significantly larger ear, that nearly touched her. He smiled and it returned to it's original size.

" Sooo.... " now his smile was more like a grin.

" You're having it hard in this world, huh? Being repelled by everypony... " the dragonecqueus sneaked behind her and his head appeared on her left side. She glared at him, confused, but she was carefully listening.

' The iron is forged while still hot. ' Discord thought and continued persuading Fiery, something he had left from his old, unrestrained self.

" You're afraid? You have skills too dangerous too reveal? " his convincing words sneaked inside of the pegasus' s head and gave her.... not a headache, but hope.

She glanced at him with hoping eyes and the chaotical being grinned even wider. At last he found somepony with a true potential for chaos. Somepony, who needed it.

" And do you know, that chaos is something amazing? " his words continued convincing her more and more

" It can reveal your true potential, and still keep you and everypony else out of harm's way... " suddenly Discord had a brilliant idea. At the crack of his fingers the scarecrows stopped decorating the tree and stood on a platform, that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. And than Discord began singing:

"               I was afraid from the consequences,

restrained by laws and spiky fences! ( Discord was suddenly surrounded by a thorn hedge, which dissapeared after a second.  Some of the scarecrows slowly began to dance, while others played trumpets, supporting Discord's fast- paced jazz tune . )

but it is no more; with chaos I got free,

no longer contained by the royaltieees! ( a picture of Luna and Celestia appeared on the wall and Discord threw a pie at it. His tone lowered on " royalties " , indicating that another part of the song awaited )

And what about you? You're the same!

Stop playing their nasty little game!

Join my game, come play along!

No worries, you'll party all day looooooooooooooooooooooong!  "

The scarecrows moved faster and even Discord joined their dance while singing. The long " o "( the scarecrows joined the singing when Discord reached "long") and the gradually ascending tone brought the enthusiastic Fiery to the conclusion, that the chorus awaited.

Discord jumped and spun in the air, sending sparkles in all directions. A podium appeared bellow him and once again he spread his lion paw towards Fiery. This time she gladly accepted and joined him on the podium, while he was singing the chorus:

"              Oh, join the chaos! It's so amazing!

No more worries, pain or restraining!

Join me now and be yourself!

Don't listen to what the others tell!              "

( Discord said the first part of the last row very quick and emphasised on " tell " .)

Fiery laughed. He was right. What was she so afraid of? She even decided to join the song and reveal her singing talent. The scarecrows switched from their chorus tune to the regular one and taking the lead, Fiery sang:

"                     Before I was afraid from my powers,

So I sat frightened and alone for hours

But now I'll go and let them be,

it seems to be my destiny!

My mom was right, I am great,

I had better listened, hope it's not too late!

after I reveal them, they would try to stop me, wow!

( Fiery said the last word with sarcasm)

I'll find a way to stop them...... somehow!        "

" That's how it's done! " Discord congratulated her and sang along her as the scarecrows played the chorus tune again. The chaotical duet let out their voices in a slightly more different chorus than before:

     "             Oh, I'll join the chaos!It's so amazing!

No more pain for me and no restraining!

I'll join you and be myself,

I don't care what the others tell!             "

However, the singing duo was unaware they had other audience than the scarecrows. Spike and Twilight had appeared just in time to see how Discord persuaded her and the beggining of the song. In a result of this now Twilight sat there, leaning against the wall,depressed, while Spike was trying to calm her down:

" Twilight.... Discord isn't evil anymore. Nothing will happen to Fiery. She might even reveal her powers to you! "

" You're right... he's just uncanny. But how did Discord cause her to be herself, while I couldn't ? " Twilight answered, worried that she wasn't such a good friend anymore.

" I must stop this! " Twilight rushed to her door. Spike jumped on her back as she opened the door. the scarecrows stopped playing the trumpets and Fiery and Discord stopped dancing.

" Fiery, don't listen to him! He's Discord! You don't have to follow chaos to be yoursel... " before she could finish her sentence she was struck by the magic of Discord. The scarecrows played again and the dance continued. Now it was Discord's turn to sing:

"                           If you want to talk, you'd better sing,

music is such a good and pleasant thing!

With my hex you'll join the song,

sing it now and prove me wrong!                        "

Twilight stood on her four again, but Discord's magic caused her to sing and not talk,and the result somehow also fit the song:

"          Fiery, please, listen to me now,

I don't want him to change you anyhow,

You're good the way you are,

Remain how you were so far!                    "

Fiery smiled and replied to the purple alicorn:

"           Twilight, Twilight, it is too late,

I've already found my true fate

My power is unknown to you,

you're far away from the truth!

You don't suspect who I really am,

and this is where I put the end.

Before I was afraid, and now I'm not!

No more scary, fearful thoughts!               "

With these last lines Discord, Fiery and the scarecrows left through the door, leaving Twilight confused, horrified and still randomly speaking in rhymes. The lights went off and Spike silently went upstairs, leaving Twilight alone with her thoughts, in the darkness.