Phantom of the Gala

As the Phantom, aka Discord, dragged Fluttershy down to his lair, she struggled to pull away from him. “Please let me go,” she pleaded.

He ignored her and kept pulling. He pulls her down the long hallways and to his lair. In the distant you could hear people coming to catch them. “Track down the murderer!” people were calling and almost chanting to a rhythm.

“Why do people do this?” he asked to himself. He then stopped pulling her and looked at Fluttershy. “Because of my face? Tell me, why!”

Fluttershy let a tear roll down her cheek. “I don't know why,” she said.

He then kept on pulling her down. He had brought her to the heart of the sewers beneath the opera house. He took her to where he had taken her months before. Discord then looked at the wax figure of Fluttershy. He then took the wedding dress it had on and gave it to Fluttershy.

“Where it,” he instructed her.

Fluttershy didn't want to argue, so she took the dress and went somewhere where he couldn't see her to put the dress on. She came back and saw that he was at his organ. “Am I now your prisoner?” she asked him. “What are you going to do with me?”

He looked at her. He then walked up and put his hand on her cheek. “Since I've been down here, alone, for so many years,” he started, “has it's upsides. But the downsides include not being able to touch the female skin.”

Fluttershy backed away. She didn't want him touching her. “Do you see my face?” he asked her.

Fluttershy slowly turned her head to look at it. It was ugly, she couldn't ever get used to it. She then nodded. “This face is so repulsive that... that my own mother hated me for it. Do you believe it?” he asked. “My own mother.”

Fluttershy felt bad for him. She looked away though to look out at the water surrounding them. “My mask was actually my first ever decent piece of clothing,” he told her looking down. He then felt all the hatred of everyone build up inside him. He then got a little angry and took the wedding veil off the mannequin and shoved it onto Fluttershy's head without being gentle.

“But that is all behind us now, everything is,” he told her. Fluttershy didn't look at him still. He then turned her body towards him. “Turn around! I am now your whole future! Understand?”

Fluttershy looked at him in horror, she was so scared. She then sucked all her fear in, and nodded. “I understand now,” she replied. “I understand that your face isn't the problem, it's your heart that is.”

Discord was crushed by this. He didn't want her to think of him like that. He then heard the sound of someone walking in the water. Discord looked up and saw Spike walking towards the gate to the lair. He smiled slyly.

Fluttershy heard it too and looked to see what was making that sound. She gasped. “Spike!” she screamed. She then motioned for him to leave.

Discord smiled. “I'd hoped that you would come,” he told Spike. He then opened the gate. “Come in, make yourself at home.”

Spike looked at Fluttershy, who was shaking her head, and clenched his fist to look strong. He ignored Fluttershy's attempts to warn him. “I came to free her,” he told Discord.

Discord laughed.  Spike went up to Fluttershy and hugged her. “Everything will be fine,” he told her. “I love you.”

Fluttershy hugged him back. “I love you t...”

Before she could finish her word, Spike was being pulled away from her. She watched in shock as Discord pulled Spike up to the gate. He put him up to the gate and tied a noose around his head. “Now no one can save you, except Fluttershy!” he told Spike. Discord then laughed. “And we all know that is NOT going to happen!”

Fluttershy stood there, still in shock, not knowing what to do. Discord then let go of the rope tied to Spike's neck and tied it around another part of the gate for safe keepings. He then walked up to Fluttershy and put his hands on the side of her arms. “Start a new life with me,” he said. “He can be let free if you stay here with me forever.”

“What if I don't want to?” she asked quietly.

Discord looked at her and hen at Spike. “Then he dies,” he answered her.

Fluttershy got even more scared than before. “This is the choice,” he told her. “This is it.”

Fluttershy then took a deep breath. “I might have felt sorry for you,” she told him. She then looked over at Spike who was almost about to die. “Now I don't!”

Spike looked at Fluttershy. “I'm sorry,” he apologized.

Fluttershy looked at him and smiled to comfort him. Fluttershy then looked at Discord. “I thought we might have had a good chance, but now those chances are ruined,” she said.

“Either way you choose you cannot win!” Discord yelled at her. “So what will it be? Are you going to end your days with me? Or will you send him to his grave?”

Discord then untied the rope from the gate and pulled it. “Why make her miserable to save me?” he asked him.

Fluttershy started to cry not knowing what to do. “Please stop!” she yelled.

“Just say no, Fluttershy!” Spike ordered her. “I'll be fine! Just say no!”

Fluttershy then looked down. “You deceived me,” she muttered to herself. “I just... gave my mind blindly not knowing what I was getting into.”

Discord then stopped pulling hard n the rope and looked at her. “Make your choice,” he told her.

Fluttershy looked at Discord with tears in her eyes. “What are you doing?” she asked him. “Who has taught you this is the way to act?”

Discord still looked at her. Fluttershy started to walk towards him. “You feel like you've been abandoned by everyone,” she said. “I'm sorry for that, but you have to understand, that you're not abandoned by everyone.”

“What do you mean?” Discord asked.

Fluttershy smiled. “You're not alone,” she answered him. She then closed her eyes and kissed him. Soft at first, then she began to kiss harder. She felt like she needed to do this to make him feel loved. She did love him, but her love has grown to die.

Their kiss was interrupted by the chants of the mob coming closer. Discord looked at Fluttershy and started to cry. Fluttershy smiled to show him everything was alright. Discord kept crying, then he went over to Spike and untied the ropes around him.

Discord then pushed Spike away. “Go,” he said. “Take her and leave me.”

Spike then ran over to Fluttershy and tried to take her, but she stayed still looking at Discord. “I said GO! Take the boat and never a tell a soul about me, the angel in Hell,” he told them.

Spike pulled Fluttershy into the boat. Discord then ran up to his bedroom and turned on the music box. It twinkled it's little music. He smiled and stroked it. “Hide your face so that world will never find you,” he sang in tune to the music.

Something caught his eye. It was Fluttershy. She was standing in front of him looking like she was about to release the Hoover Dam. Discord smiled. “Fluttershy,” he started. He smiled and cried a little. “I love you.”

Fluttershy released all her tears and looked at the ring he had given her on her finger. She then slowly slipped it off and gave it to him. She then mouthed, “I'm sorry”. She then started to walk away towards the boat. She then looked behind her and saw Discord sitting there.

“Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime,” she sang to Discord the same words he had sung to her.

“Say the word and I will follow you,” Spike chimed in taking Fluttershy's hand.

Fluttershy didn't mean for him to chime in, it was more for Discord. As Spike pulled her away, she looked at Discord. “Share each day with me, each night, each morning,” she sang looking at Discord.

Spike then put her in the boat and they sailed away. Discord looked at the ring that Fluttershy just gave him. He then slipped it on his left ring finger.

“You alone could make my song take flight,” he muttered to himself fighting back the tears. He then took a candle stock and held it tight. “It's over now, the music of the night!” he sang as he smashed all the mirrors in his lair.

He then walked to his bed and hid under the covers. Sweetie Belle and the rest of the mob came into the lair. She ran up to his bedroom and saw a lump in the bed. She picked up the blanket and nothing there, but a white mask.

Sweetie Belle picked it up and looked around for anything else that could be there. But there was nothing. She wondered where and the world could he be hiding.