Once upon a time, in a magical world called Equestria, there was… a grumpy ‘ol draconeqqus by the name of Discord. Discord was what you may call “reformed”, and only by a young, yellow, and most of all shy pegasus by the name of Fluttershy. Discord, on the other hand, is vile, monstrous- wait! He wasn’t really monstrous, or vile! Although is he is-well was- the Lord of Chaos, he had quitted his old ways because of the little pegasus, and plus, controlling the world was tiring!

Although, right now he felt more tired than ever. The mis-match draconeqqus had been collecting herbs from his what to be called “natural” home, the Everfree forest. He wished that he could teleport to the Princess’ castle so he could get some sleep, but he had been so tired that he couldn’t have possibly teleported that big of a space, mostly because he was used to teleporting only small-er distances.

‘Man, that princess,’ he thought, ‘always needing me to do this, and that, can’t she just leave me to get some re-!!!' Discord spun his head around as a magenta laser shot out towards him, and he instinctively teleported. But the teleportation took a lot of energy out of him, and a hard gust of wind caused him to spin out of control.

Until he crashed into something. Hard.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy was taking some time to feed her canaries. She had gotten them special treats and she couldn’t wait to see their fac--!

BANG!

A loud crash was heard, and, carefully and curiously, she slowly turned around, and headed towards the sound of the crash.

‘Oh I hope Mr. Grizzly hasn’t gotten himself hurt again!’ Fluttershy thought. But as she opened the door to her bedroom she gasped.

His face distorted, and covered in cuts, bruises, and some awful gashes, lay, or well crashed Discord. On the right side of her room, perfectly between her two lovely pictures of her family and friends. Discord moaned in pain, and clutched his head.

“Oh, my, D-Discord! A-Are you alright?!?” Fluttershy rushed towards him and pulled him out of the hole, causing his sides to fill up with more cuts and scrapes. It seemed that the house simply didn’t like him, as if the house were to have feelings.

Fluttershy carefully removed the splinters of wood from the injured draconeqqus, and checked over every bit of him. She worked her way through, inspecting his larger injuries, such as the gash along the side of his long, slithery, body, disinfected them, and lastly bandaged them. What surprised her the most was the fact that he was even there, bravely hanging on to consciousness, but still hissing in pain whenever she touched his fresh wounds.

Unfortunately, this bravery did not last, and as soon as she touched his head, the poor thing passed out.

“Discord!” Fluttershy yelped, as the sudden loss of movement scared her. She soothed down though, when she heard his steady breathing. His head looked bumpy, and she thought that he might be having a concussion. Logic came in though, and told her that if Discord had been able to stay awake this entire time then he, of course, mustn't have a concussion.

Still worried for her friend, she bandaged up this area most carefully, and when she was done, called her friends over to see the matter.

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As soon as they heard the news, Twilight, Spike, AppleJack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity ran to Fluttershy’s cottage as quickly as possible, bringing fresh wood and hay for the torn roof of her cottage.

As they galloped into the cottage, Fluttershy trotted down the stairs and greeted them.

“Fluttershy, what in tarnation happen in here?” AppleJack asked worriedly “Are you alright?” The ponies (and dragon) started to crowd around her.

“Yeah are you okay? Cause if you’re not that would be super sad and I would feel as if I am a really bad friend and then you would go away and forget me and then we would all be sad! And after that I’ll have to put on a pity party and then--” She was muffled by Spike’s claw.

“Go ahead.” He said.

“It’s alright, I’m okay, it’s Discord I’m worried about,” She started trotting up the stairs yet again, the rest following obediently. “I mean, he just came crashing through my roof, and well, he has quite a few injuries, including a broken wing and some gashes along his side.” They reached the small hall of the second level. “Poor thing.”

“Poor thing? Really? After all he’s done, you call him a poor thing? He deserves it!” Rainbow Dash spat, but immediately regretted her words when the others looked at her in utter shock.

“R-Rainbow! How could you say such a thing? I know he hasn’t really been as close to us as he was before, but that’s just-” Rarity stammered.

“Vile!” Twilight finished. “Rainbow, I know you dislike him most out of the seven of us, but all beings deserve to have a chance at reclaiming pony’s trust!” Twilight lectured.

“Yeah, but he isn’t a being, he’s a...” Fluttershy almost couldn’t bear to her her next words. “monster. All of you even said so!” She pointed her hoof at her friends accusingly.

Fluttershy gasped. “I-Is this true? Have you been talking about him behind my back all this time? I-I-I can’t believe you! Is this truly how you feel? I-I don’t know what to say, I’m s-so,” She took a shaky breath. “disappointed in you! All of you!” Tears started to fill up in her eyes. Why were her friends so distant with him now? They used to be proud to call him their friend, but now, as the years wear away...

“Fluttershy…” Spike said, “We’re..”

“Sorry, but he has been just so...chaotic these days! He's gone back to his regular self, his self before the Tirek incident!" Rarity interrupted.

“Yeah, and he always made it rain chocolate milk without a single dollop of whipped cream!” Pinkie added.

Twilight sighed. “We are sorry Fluttershy, but he was just too hard of a draconeqqus to get along with for a while now. It's almost like he's been un-reformed..”

“Sugarcube, Ah’m sorry, but I’ll have to agree with Twilight and the rest of us here.” AppleJack grumbled as she hung her head.

"See? I still don’t get why you defend him!” Rainbow finished off. All the others nodded slowly and softly.

“Now ‘bout the house, Sugarcube?” AppleJack asked, trying to change the subject.

“No.. you don’t know what’s he’s been trying to do!” Fluttershy snapped. “You all are so distant with him now, and I can find reasons why, but don’t you even know how hard he’s been trying to get closer to you again? He has been doing his best, he even admitted that his confessions that friendship was magic! Would a Lord of Chaos usually admit that? And, about his “pranks” now-it’s really just natural for him! I’ve been trying hard to help him stop his need for more chaos now then two years ago, and while he was in Canterlot serving the Princesses, I hoped he was doing okay! Imagine, if you loved doing something, but all of a sudden you could never do that again? Like Rainbow, would it be easy for you if you were banished from flying? You sure would still sometimes have secret flights at night sometimes, wouldn’t you? Exactly the same thing with Discord! I am tired of all of you never trying to even be closer friends with him! Now, unless you are helping me repair the hole in the roof or would even like to help or see Discord, for I’m not sure whether he has something wrong with his head or something, please leave. Now.” And it was in this tone you obey her. No matter what. Period.

Rainbow, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie left. If there was no party, a real need for help with Twilight around, and too many emotions surrounding their friendships with Discord, why stay then?

Meanwhile, Twilight, AppleJack, and Spike stayed there to help. When hearing about Discord’s head being damaged, Twilight was immediately interested. Most magical beings, such as unicorns, alicorns, changelings, and things like Discord, have a special organ that possess them the ability to use magic. If this organ gets damaged badly enough, they will not be able to use magic, or at the most use easy spells, such as levitation. But that’s only when it gets damaged enough. Usually, the beings magic is out of whack, and it can be like that for a day or a year, all depends on how damaged the head is.

In a mutter, Fluttershy mumbled, “He’s right here.” She opened the door, and let them in. When the three entered, they all gasped with shock and surprise. Fluttershy was right, Discord did have a lot of scrapes and bruises, even though half of them were caused by Discord’s rummaging through the forest. His head, stomach area, and Pegasus wing were in bandages. The ponies and baby dragon were silent, as the tired draconeqqus slept peacefully.

“Wow, you were right Sugarcube, he does look bad.” AppleJack remarked, her face pulling back in scowl, breaking the silence. Although not looking too bad Discord didn’t look too good. From a long glance, it looked like he would be at the cottage for a few weeks.

“Yeah,” Spike agreed. “Should I take a letter? He looks like he’s gonna be staying here a while.” Twilight nodded, and Spike took a letter from seemingly nowhere.

“Do you, um… wanna write this one Fluttershy?” Spike asked.

“Yes, but only after our work here is done, thank you.” Fluttershy said, and they all went to work.

Author's Note

Yay! First Chapter! Oh man, Fluttershy seems mad that her friends still won't get along with Discord. But...what I am thinking about it that poor roof!