As they, meaning a lean draconeqqus named Discord and a small, shy mare named Fluttershy, started walking from the house, Discord asked:

“Fluttershy, why do you live by the Everfree Forest?”

“Because almost all of my little animal friends live in or near the Everfree,” answered Fluttershy. "it's their natural home." she added.

“Are you really that devoted to those little animals?” He asked again.

“Yes, I am, why?”

“Just a thought that runs in my mind, my dear, but then shouldn't you be the element of loyalty?”

“Many ponies think that I show more kindness than loyalty. I'm definitely not brave, unlike Rainbow Dash.” She said.

“Uh-huh. Now, where are we going exactly?”

“Just around the town.”

“Very well.” Discord looked around at the nice scenery around Fluttershy’s cottage, though, it was boring! Maybe even a little bit of chaos? Suddenly, he remembered his injuries. How could he forget them? His sides were starting to literally kill him! Well, maybe not, but they still hurt - a lot!

Fluttershy, suddenly noticing the decreasing pace of Discord’s mismatched legs, stopped.

“Are you okay, Discord?”

Discord hissed in pain. “I-I- no.” He grunted.

“Where does it hurt?”

“My sides! Ugh, what am I, on fire?” Discord whined, but then tensed up as he felt the light pegasus slowly begin to rub his sides, and then softened again, as he practically fell to the ground and let out a long, relieved, sigh.

“My dear Fluttershy, how do you manage to do that?” he purred. Even though Discord was part lions and lions can't purr, he still had the strange ability to do so. Rarely had he ever purred in public, but when he was with Fluttershy, it was...different. Whenever he was content enough, he would stat purring, much to Fluttershy's comfort. Basically, it was like hearing a your cat purring when he/she decided to snuggle up by you on the couch, bed, etc.

“This is what I do to my bigger animals whenever they get hurt.” Fluttershy cooed. She was surprised by how soft the draconeqqus’ fur was every time, she had at least thought that it would be more coarse.

After a few minutes, Fluttershy stopped rubbing.

“Feel better?” she asked.

Discord didn't reply, as he was sound asleep. Fluttershy smiled....

But then gasped in horror as she saw, a pair of golden, glowing eyes stared straight at her.

She felt about ready to scream.

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Discord awoke to the sound of screaming. He got up.

“Fluttershy? Fluttershy?” Discord called. He heard a roar and later a scream, and immediately ran off towards the sound.

“Fluttershy!” He caught sight of her and gasped. Fluttershy was being chased by Timberwolves! He stood dumbstruck for a moment but then regained his surroundings and chased off towards them.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy was being chased by not one, but three Timberwolves! She was running for her life, and hoped that they would somehow lose her, but every time she looked back, they were still there, coming closer, and closer….

Then, she heard a different roar, and looked up. It was Discord! In complete fury he completely slashed one Timberwolf in half, and stood protectively in front of Fluttershy. The Timberwolves growled and so did he. Although not very menacing in size, Discord was still twice the size, in length, not width, of a regular pony.

“Dare touch her, and you’ll be killed!” He growled yet again, showing his quite defensive side. But the Timberwolves didn’t budge. “You want us to do this the hard way? Let’s do this the hard way, then!” he jumped and tackled the first Timberwolf. But the other one slowly came up behind Discord, and just about when he was to finish off the other wolf, he slashed at him.

And he did not miss.

“Agh!” Discord cried as his goat leg started bleeding profusely. But he still hung on. He killed the Timberwolf by which he was upon. Then, he fought the last one, more gruelingly, until finally, he killed it, eyes filled with anger.

Fluttershy ran up to Discord as he fainted, half from exhaustion, half from his bleeding leg, which the Timberwolf tore ever more at during their battle.

“Discord! Discord!” she cried, and after realizing he wasn’t going to wake up, she quickly ran home and reappeared moments later with bandages in hoof.

Discord had just saved her.

Now it was about time she save him back.

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Discord awoke slowly, his leg throbbing. At first he wondered why, but then he remembered the fight with the Timberwolves. He looked at his surroundings around him. He was on Fluttershy’s couch, and the pegasus seemed nowhere in sight. Discord slowly sat up, and strained to see inside the adjacent rooms.

“Fluttershy?” He asked.

But it seemed that she wasn’t at the cottage. Still unsure, he called out again.

“Fluttershy…..?”

“Discord!” Fluttershy suddenly appeared as she flew straight into Discord, scaring him. “Oh Discord! You’re okay!” Fluttershy hugged him tight, finally releasing him and rested her gaze upon him, looking him straight in the eye.

“Fluttershy-”

Her focus on Discord was ruined, and she looked down. “I mean, I was so scared, and you saved me Discord, saved me! See? The others were wrong about you, and speaking about them, I haven’t told them yet. I wasn’t sure what to do, oh I am so happy that you are okay! I owe you one, Discord!” Fluttershy went on, babbling like the hyper-active, fuchsia maned pony, Pinkie Pie. Discord stopped in his tracks.

“Owe, me? My dear Fluttershy, have you not seen nor heard how many times you’ve defended me against your precious pony friends? I, Discord, was just returning the favor! So speak nothing of it!” Discord winced. “But, could you do me a favor and step off my leg? It hurts quite a lot.”

Fluttershy looked down again. He was right, she was half standing, half flying on his leg. Fluttershy took herself off his leg and floated in the air, wings quietly beating a soft rhythm

“Oh, sorry.”

“It’s fine, but…” Discord sighed. “It seems like I’m grounded, until my head, wing, or leg gets better, and that’s what bothering me. You know I hate to stay in one place for this long!”

There was a strange silence as Discord tried to get himself comfortable.

“I-I’m sorry Discord, if I hadn’t just-” Fluttershy finally began.

“Hadn’t just what? It was those Timberwolves who did the wrong thing, not you!”Discord interrupted.

“Yeah, but what if they come back for revenge? I mean, like, more Timberwolves.” Fluttershy asked concern upon her face.

“Hmm, well, I think I got a way to keep them out!” Discord snapped his fingers in triumph like he had just solved the world's greatest math problem.

“Which is….?”

“Simply spread the broken pieces of wood on the edge of your property, that way, when any other Timberwolves come, they’ll know not to deal with this...er...cottage!” Discord gave sharp nod, clearly proud of himself.

“Oh, why hadn’t I thought of that?” Fluttershy mumbled to herself. “Well, I better must go outside then and spread the branches,” She said, getting up bravely. “I’ll be back in a few minutes.”

She left, and Discord waited, but after a while he started to get a bit worried. He carefully lifted himself up, limped over to the door, and went outside into the open air. It was a little before sunset,he noticed as he looked around, but yet she wasn’t there. Wanting to check the full property of the house he grumbled to himself:

“Dear Celestia, I wish I could just teleport myself over to the other side of the cottage! But my head is still-” But he hadn’t finished, for he was now on the other side.

“Yes! My magic is back, baby!” He cheered, and took off his head bandages, spinning them around as he danced around. After rejoicing for a bit, he remembered his task at hand, and started looking. “Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Where are you?” He exclaimed, but the pegasus was nowhere to be found. He started getting even more worried. He teleported himself high over the property, but she was still nowhere to be found. ‘Oh where could she be?’ He asked, and a sudden thought nearly knocked the breath out of him. ‘What if she’s dead?’ Discord almost let out a screech as he quickly teleported off to get help, before it was too late.

Author's Note

Dun Dun DUN! Well, Steve the Timberwolf has gotten himself quite in trouble. Did they really think that branches would stop them from the evil....wait! I don't want to spoil the next Chapter! Keep reading if you want to find out what happens next!