When Discord woke up yet again on the couch in Fluttershy’s living room, he woke up thinking that nothing had happened. But then massive pain took over his body, and his memory started up. The tree, the flashbacks, Dark Age, the Star’s Ellipse, the sharp pain emanating from his back was the last thing he remembered. Acknowledging that Fluttershy might be in the house, Discord let out a long groan.

“Feeling good, Dip-cord?” Came instead Rainbow Dash's voice as she sneered. “You’re so fragile.”

Discord’s eyes snapped open, and he suddenly lunged towards Rainbow Dash, face red with anger. “How dare you...you idiot!” He pounced on Rainbow Dash, and punched her stout on the face.

Rainbow did the same. “See? I knew you weren’t reformed, even with what happened with Tirek!” Rainbow spat, and soon the two were punching and bruising each other heavilly. Rainbow knocked some good punches into Discord’s back, but as he kept teleporting off to dodge her throws, Rainbow started aiming for the draconeqqus's head.

Discord, on the other hand, was also giving some in brutal hits. Once, he pinned her wings down and gave a good swat at her head, pressing his reptile claw into her skin while doing so.

They kept on and on, battering each other and insulting all the while. All the tension between the two was finally let out, surrounding them like an invisible fire. Rainbow and Discord fought hard, Discord obviously struggling from doubling over. He knew his back was broken, but he kept at it anyways.

All again and again, Rainbow swatted at Discord’s head, and Discord at her head and wings, as he thought that if he could get her unconscious, he could win this battle.

Finally though, Rainbow flew up into the air wobbling, her right wing drooping slightly downwards, and smacked herself right into Discord’s head. Discord fell down to the ground, a groan escaping from his mouth as he lost consciousness.

Coincidentally, at that exact same second, Fluttershy opened her door. She gave a yelp as she saw the state Rainbow Dash and Discord were in, and immediately ran over as Rainbow Dash also passed out, more from exhaustion instead of Discord's final hits.

Seeing she couldn’t help both ponies at once, she immediately called Twilight and Spike over to help bandage up her beloved friends.

“Wait WHAT happened?!?” Twilight asked on the other line.

“I don’t know! But they need help! Badly! I just need help!” Fluttershy sobbed into the phone.

“Okay, okay!” Twilight said, acknowledging the tone of Fluttershy’s voice. “I’ll be there in a flash!” (LOL Get it? Flash-no? Fine then.)

Twilight was telling the truth. Within a blink of the eye, she was there, first aid kit ready, but she almost dropped it when she saw the two bloody creatures.

“I-what...Rainbow?” Twilight was speechless for a moment, but stopped gawking as she saw Fluttershy carefully starting to bandage Discord. “Um, right! Let’s do this.” Twilight crouched down and set off to work.

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This time when Discord woke up, he let an immediate moan/yelp as pain washed all over him. It was like a hundred knives were stabbing him, all in different places. His back ached even more, and his head was pulsing rapidly.

“Ugh,” Discord heard another voice sound from across the room, and he recognized it as Rainbow Dash’s. Discord let out a snarl.

“Oh! You two are awake! Thank goodness!” Fluttershy exclaimed as she leaped into the room.

Rainbow slowly stretched herself and sat up. “Ugh, my wing! ...and my head…” Rainbow Dash groaned.

“Says the one who decided to knock me hard on the head with your entire body…” Discord snarled and showed his sharp, canine teeth almost instinctively, as the cyan pegasus he felt was now on his enemies list.

He had a lot of ponies on that list now.

“Says the one who pinned me down and nearly cut off my wing!” Rainbow spat back.

“Guys! Stop fighting, the both of you! Now, if you would please, I need to tell you something important!" Fluttershy was almost to tears, her eyes watery and her voice high-pitched.

Silence was all that came in reply.

Fluttershy turned to Discord and Rainbow Dash, and cleared her throat. “From what I know, we are ALL going to the hospital, Discord, you'll be going to the hospital for your possible cracked skull, and now even more broken back." Discord suppresed a groan and looked in the opposite direction. "Plus," Fluttershy continued "your sides aren’t doing too good, either. You’ve practically exhausted yourself and your magic is definitely out of whack, from what Twilight said.” Fluttershy hesitated to look to Rainbow Dash. “And you, missy, are also going to the hospital for your wing to get it completely reattached. Your head has bumps on it, so I wouldn't be surprised if your skull was cracked, too. Your hooves are cut and are bleeding, but you’re actually lucky that you got no other injuries.” Fluttershy stepped back into the kitchen. “Now, while I make breakfast, you two be good and not kill each other,”

Rainbow and Discord only gave a grunt in response and each scowled in reply to Fluttershy's motherish tone.

After a few moments of complete, Rainbow finally broke the silence. "I guess I'll have to say it eventually” she murmured to herself and turned her head towards Discord.

“Discord?"

Discord gritted his teeth. "What?" he asked bitterly.

Rainbow Dash heaved an annoyed sigh and finally gave a small murmur.

"I'm sorry."

Discord's ear perked up, and he looked directly into Rainbow Dash's eyes as she continued. "I-I shouldn’t have teased you like that, with all that happened yesterday.” she admitted.

Taking a deep breath, Discord sighed. “Now I’m not one for sappy apologies, but I’ll have to say I’m sorry for...lunging at you, I probably should have just mentioned the time when you were almost denied from entering the Wonder Bolts,” Discord snickered, and Rainbow stiffened.

“Then I would probably have-Ugh, you know what? Even if we had done anything else instead, we would still be here, you know that?” Rainbow scoffed.

“Why of course! I mean I know you as an agg-” Discord suddenly yelped as a whooping pain came from his back, and he winced. After a few moments, he finally replied.

“You know what? We shouldn’t really be joking about this.” He looked over and saw Rainbow nodd, holding her head in her hooves.

“Okay, breakfast’s served!” Fluttershy came back into the room with sandwiches and ranch. Noticing the heat between the two was shriveled, she queried the two.

“So you finally made up?”

Both just nodded simultaneously.

Fluttershy looked upon their pained expressions. “Actually, let’s get you two to the hospital instead.”

Both nodded again, and Rainbow Dash stood up. Discord adjusted himself and nervously got himself up, half flying as he tried keep his back from arching back and forth as he walked.

“Wait, are you guys really thinking of walking there?” Fluttershy asked.

“Well, do we have any other choice? My wings are busted up-”

“Courtesy of me!” Discord smiled as he interrupted Rainbow Dash, a smudge of pride in his voice. Both pegasi glared at him and he fumbled. "And I, erm, can’t use my magic-” Discord was the one to be interrupted this time, by Rainbow Dash.

“Courtesy of me!” Rainbow said very proudly giving Discord a mischevious smile; Fluttershy shook her head and sighed.

After a few moments of getting themselves ready Fluttershy decided to face Discord. “Discord?” she asked him as Rainbow started on the path outside, pulling him to the side where the fast-flying pegasus couldn’t see him inside the house. “I don’t think you’re healthy enough to walk all the way over to the hospital. Rainbow too. You are just so-” Before Fluttershy could even finished her sentence Discord swatted her hooves away.

“Don’t you dare say it! I am not fragile, and I never will be!” He fought the urge to wince as his sudden movement hurt him, and he tried to half-fly half-stomp out the door. Fluttershy stopped him yet again.

“I know that you’re mad, but please just calm down! I just don’t want you to get hurt, Discord…” She said softly, but still easily audible. “because I love you…” she muttered.

Discord stiffened, then softened and turned back towards Fluttershy. “I know, and I love you too,” Discord looked down, and finally winced as he sat down on the couch. “I’m sorry, it’s just that-”

“You are stressed from all the recent activity and are getting frustrated. Don’t worry, I know how that feels.” Fluttershy told the draconeqqus. They locked eyes for a brief moment before Discord pulled away.

“You’re right, I shouldn't have lunged after Rainbow Dash after she called me fragile. I should’ve just payed attention to the most important thing I have,” Discord cooed, leaning in to kiss Fluttershy, wrapping his arms around her. “Which is you,” Before Fluttershy could ask about what he meant Discord leaned in and kissed her for a brief moment until he heard Rainbow's hooves as she peeked her head inside.

“Hello? You two coming out?” Rainbow asked from around the door.

“ Oh! Yeah, coming!” Fluttershy called, and she gave him one more loving glance before heading out the door, as his pains were momentarily forgotten.

“Oh Tia, what love makes you do!” He muttered before clumsily going out the door, the pain immediately returning when he saw his newly once again "friend" Rainbow Dash. Discord bared his teeth slightly; remembering that this was mostly all her fault.

Now he regretted his decision to apologize to her.

“So,” Fluttershy began. “What happened while I was gone?” She inquired.

Both strangely began laughing together.

“We nearly tore each other apart,” Discord said.

“Yeah, you almost ripped my wing off!” Rainbow voice was at that of a pitch bordering a shout.

“Yeah, and you nearly rammed my head off! Not to mention my back!” Discord shouted back.

“Oh goodness,” Fluttershy muttered as the two started yelling each other about who did who. Seeing this as a beginning to another fight, Fluttershy stepped between the two. “Calm down, each of you will have the chance when you tell me, in your own...perspective.

“Why not just hear what happened when you can see it?” Discord asked. He had forgotten that he couldn't currently do any spells for that moment, and he snapped his fingers. Dozens of orange milk glasses filled the air around them, and he quickly snapped his fingers again, luckily making the glasses disappear and taking them to the time of the fight, instead of turning the sky purple with cotton candy rainclouds drizzling milk on the town ponies.

“Oh my!” Fluttershy gasped as she saw the two fighting. Even Discord and Rainbow winced as they saw themselves angrily punch each other. They were brutal.

But that could change.

As they returned to the present time, Discord eyes flashed different colors, and he shook his head to clear them of their constant changing of bright colors. It reminded him of the way the mane six's eyes had swirled when he had first cast his corruption spell on them.

He was very dizzy, as his willy wonka magic made him momentarily blinded by the swaying land in front of him.

“Why is everyone spinning?” He dizzily asked as he swayed almost drunkenly.

“What do you mean, spinning?” Rainbow asked. She and Fluttershy were perfectly fine, thank goodness. Celestia knows what would've happened had his magic not worked correctly for that one spell.

“Hold on for a second there! I got a feeling I’m going to disappear in a moment!” Discord spun around, and both pegasi made some contact with him. Within a moment they were outside the hospital, where Discord finally plopped down onto the ground.

“Ugh!” He grunted as his back cracked and he let out a loud wince, both from his back and spinning head.

“Cool! You did something right for once!” Rainbow complimented/insulted.

“Why thank you, Rainbow Dash,” Discord grumbled as he carefully flew himself up. They slowly walked inside, and the nurse pony gasped.

“Oh my, you..er..ponies don’t look too good.” She pointed over at Rainbow and Discord, earning two annoyed rolls of the eyes.

“Yeah, we know,” Rainbow grumbled as she and Discord were led to a room, both slightly limping. Fluttershy followed them, telling the nurse pony that she was the one taking care of the odd pairing. The nurse, named Lytic Cycle, simply laughed.

“With these two on your hooves, I bet you’ll be begging me to let them stay here, from what I can tell.” Lytic Cycle betted.

When the doctors saw their eye catching state, they immediately gasped and took the surprised creatures to two small "separate" rooms.

“You might want to go home, darling, this will take a while. I can call you when you can see them.” Lytic Cycle advised, and led Fluttershy back towards the office.

“Okay,” Fluttershy shyly agreed. She gave Lytic Cycle her number, and left.

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Discord groaned as he woke up yet again. His sides, for some reason unbeknownst to him, were aching more than ever, what did the doctor’s do to him? Tear them apart and then stitch them together again? He turned and noticed that Rainbow Dash was on the bed next to him, their two "rooms" being separated by a single, dull greeen curtain.

“You wonder what the in the world did they do to you too?" Rainbow guessed as she glanced towards Discord. "Well, it seems like they were just placing our bones where they should be." she took a moment until continueing "And you were right, you got hurt way more than I did, but not all that’s my fault.” Rainbow finished absent mindedly bouncing a ball on the wall in front of her.

Just then Fluttershy barged in. She gave Discord and Rainbow Dash a worried look as the doctor came in behind her. “Well, it’s good to see that you’re finally up, Discord.” He smiled.

Discord almost growled as one of his sometimes dreaded insticts started up again. He didn't really like that the doctor had cused him more pain then what he felt before. Instead, he frowned.

The doctor took a look at the cyan pegasus pony Rainbow Dash. "Well, it seems as if I'll be starting with you then."

"Wait, start what?" Rainbow asked nervously.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm just going to tell you where you got hurt" the doctor soothed and Rainbow slowly nodded, eyes still shimmering with anxiety. "Now, Miss Dash, it seems that your skull is cracked in several places, and your wing is nearly torn off. You won’t be flying for the next two months, if you’re lucky.” the doctor explained and shook his head in sympathy as Rainbow Dash gave a loud yelp.

“WHAT?!?” Rainbow was indeed as shocked as anypony could ever be, the news was simply horrifying for her.

“Hmm, yes, I am indeed sorry that you must have this horrible fate." the doctor gave a brief, sad nodd as he turned to the draconeqqus, who was currently supressing a smile at the thought of the pure irony in the situation. "Yes yes, anyways, Discord, let’s get on with you. First off you are one of the starngest cases I’ve ever seen, I’ve never seen anypony have a broken back, mashed insides, cracked skull, and still easily conscoius! Really, maybe it’s because you are a draconeqqus. Hmm,” the doctor looked at his clipboard again. “Oh, and you might not want to move your back too much. It’s broken in at least three places, we’ll have to do more tests to be sure.” He dully finished, and walked to the door of the room, muttering about how the mismatched patient's condition made no sense at all. Rainbow's of course had because she had been asleep for two days as the doctors mended her head. Same with that part on Discord.

“Ugh, can I go to sleep now?” Rainbow Dash asked as the doctor opened, the door. “There’s nothing better to do!"

"Yes, you can. Discord, I would do the same." the doctor replied.

"But I just woke up!" Discord whined, but by this time the doctor had already slammed the large oak door shut.

"Hehe, gotta listen to the doctor, Discord." Rainbow Dash sneered.

"Jerk," Discord muttered under his breath as he looked angrily at the door.

"Well, I gotta get some z's so Fluttershy, would ya mind?" Rainbow Dash extended a hoof towards the curtain as she laid back in her own comfy bed.

“Why, of course,” Fluttershy replied and did as she was told.

After Rainbow Dash had finally settled in bed, Fluttershy floated over by Discord, who, unsurprisingly, had to curl up his tail and back legs to fit snugly into the bed.

“So, how are you feeling?” the butter colored mare asked quietly.

“Not so good.” Discord said glumly. “My sides, back, and stomach don’t feel that great anymore. Neither does my head.” Discord let out a small moan, and tried to get himself comfortable. “I also feel quite a bit dizzy.”

“Anything I can do to help?” Fluttershy asked sweetly, but with much concern.

Discord looked at her slyly. “Nothing but a nice kiss, my dear,” he smile and the couple shared another loving kiss. Although this time Fluttershy didn't pull away. Instead she hugged him tight, like a child when they hang on to their mother in a big bear hug.

“I love you, Discord,” Fluttershy muttered quietly so Discord's "room mate" couldn’t hear.

“And I love you too, my dearest Fluttershy.” Discord whispered into the timid pegasus's ear.

After a few moments of silence, Discord fell asleep and Fluttershy exited the room.

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A few weeks passed before Discord and Rainbow Dash were released from the PonyVille Hospital’s doors. Fluttershy and the others met them there, the others mostly coming just to see their beloved Dashie.

“Oh, Rainbow! Look at you!” Rarity dramatized as she hugged Rainbow Dash. “What did Discord do to you, darling?” she asked.

“I’m right here you know!” Discord huffed. “And as you should know, Dashie over here,” Discord pointed over to the cyan pegasus standing next to him. “Gave me a concussion, broke my back in two more places, and more.”

“Well you also gave me a concussion and almost tore off my wing!” Rainbow spat back at the draconeqqus, who just snorted angrily.

“Hey, let’s not get into fight again, okay?” Fluttershy stepped in between the two. “I’m pretty sure that you guys don’t want to endup in there again.”

“So what happened anyway, Fluttershy?” Spike asked, also standing into a pacifist role.

“Oh, well, I wasn’t there, but I did see it, and they, fought” Fluttershy tried to explain, but to the others it made exactly no sense whatsoever.

“Wait, how could you see the fight when you weren’t there?” Spike asked.

“Because Discord used a flashback spell,” Fluttershy answered softly.

“Yeah, and luckily didn’t tear that the world apart! Who knows what would've happened if his magicy stuff messed up!” Rainbow exclaimed.

“Ah don’t mean to be rude, but how can ya’ll even stand if ya’ll got some good darn concussions? Shouldn’t ya’ll still be in bed?” AppleJack asked dully.

“Nah, I'm too awesome for that! Anyways, they kept us locked up in there for two weeks!” Rainbow said.

“Oh, forgot ‘bout that.” AppleJack realized dumbly.

“Anyways, let’s get to my house for some tea, shall we?” Fluttershy reminded the group, and within a moment they were in front of Fluttershy’s house, thanks to both Discord and Twilight.

“Okay, everypony sit down while I prepare the some snacks.” Fluttershy instructed as she went inside her cottage.

“Ooh! Can I help Fluttershy? I have some delightful flavors we can try out.” Rarity asked.

“Ooh! Me too! I wanna help!” Pinkie cheered, and Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie went into the kitchen.

Discord just sat down on the couch, hands on his head. That spell, even though he could now use it easily, made him slightly weak and dizzy from not performing for over two weeks.

“Feeling dizzy, Discord?” Twilight beamed a friendly smile. “Don’t worry, that’s just because you’re out of practice.” The alicorn assured.

Discord nodded as he settled into a more comfortable position. His back still ached a lot, and he had to be careful. Thank goodness that draconequui had fast healing abilities, for he expected to take off his side and stomach bandages in a few days. “Mph, thank you,” he muttered.

Rainbow Dash also sat down. “Ugh, I can’t believe that I still won’t be able to fly for over a month!” She groaned.

“I know exactly how you feel there, Rainbow,” Twilight sympathized. AppleJack nodded.

“Hey Discord, on the other hoof, could ‘cha use that flashback spell? Ah know it's a kinda random question, but Ah really wanna see happened to you two.” AppleJack asked.

His sides starting to hurt slightly again, Discord decided to add some mischief into this before he had to literally leave the room to lay down and try to feel better. “Nope! Bananas are chocolate and blue!” and they immediately were teleported back to the time of Discord's and Rainbow's fight.

“Where are we!?!” Rarity asked frantically. This sudden change of surroundings scared her, and she desperately looked around for answers.

“In a mere memory, Rarity!” Discord rhymed. He put himself and Fluttershy back in the present, and gave her a kiss before the others snapped out of the spell.

“Hey, why did I have to see it all over again?!?” Rainbow Dash grumbled, annoyed.

“No reason,” Discord lied. Rainbow snorted.

“My my, that was quite a show of brutality!” Rarity gawked after a moment of silence.

“Yeah!” Spike and Pinkie Pie shrieked simultaneously.

“Ya’ll were looked about as red and blue as one of Berry Punch's Berry salads!” AppleJack commented.

Rainbow and Discord's faces reddened in embarrassment, and Rainbow smiled weakly.

“Yeah, I guess we were,” Rainbow chuckled awkwardly, rubbing the back of her neck.

“Aw man, why couldn’t you just have yelled instead? That would make it much easier to laugh about now." Pinkie frowned.

“Well, if we just yelled at each other we would just have been delaying the inevitable, dear Pinkie! But I wouldn’t be surprised if we had another one-on-one again.” Discord whispered into Pinkie’s ear, punching the air playfully. Pinkie regained her smile in full force and giggled.

"But why did you guys fight?” Twilight asked, looking at the two frienemies who wanted to scream their lungs out at each other at times, yet sat in the same room peacefully.

Discord and Rainbow quickly shrieked: “Because him/her is just plain annoying!” Anger showing in their eyes and voices, they stiffened and glared viciously at each other.

“Yet you can sit in the same room?” Twilight asked, a ya-sure look in her face.

“Only for...personal purposes,” Discord answered, deciding to not take a look at Fluttershy to spoil his answer.

“I’m tired, so I’m not up for it,” Rainbow answered in her own casual way.

“Okay then,” Twilight finished the discussion.

“Anyways, we should get back to the kitchen, the stove is still on!” Rarity exclaimed, and the ponies who had been in there last went back inside. A awkward silence passed, in which Discord teleported off with little notice.

“Okay, here comes the best-thing-you-have-ever-tasted train!” Pinkie exclaimed a minutes later, and Discord teleported back in. Not startled at all by his sudden appearance, Pinkie asked: “Woah, Discord! Where were you off to?” She asked as she handed him his plate.

“Screaming and yelling in a mad fit of madness, why?” Discord said, more calm now than before. He in truth had went to the Everfree and started shouting deep inside it. Why? Well it seemed that all the drama had taken him over and made him become cranky and stiff. Pinkie didn’t reply, she didn’t want to say that she could relate to that. Well, I shouldn’t say relate, but instead of yelling at somepony, she would be killing them, but not because of rage. You could say in just a matter of business, and this business only came up so rare, and the killing was only for criminals, mostly.

“Mmm! These cupcakes are delicious, you guys! What did you put in them?” Spike exclaimed, happily nomming on his treat.

“Lots and lots of love!” Rarity answered, and sat next to him. Their relationship had slightly deepened over the years, and both now knew that they had feelings for each other.

“Yeah, and tons of sugar!” Pinkie cheered, as she stood on her hind legs, a tray in one hoof and a cupcake in a another. The party pony was leaning slightly on an arm of a nearby couch.

Fluttershy settled herself next to Discord, a cupcake in hand. “So,” she began quietly, “What was it like in the hospital for two weeks?”

“Dreadful, absolutely dreadful!” Discord dramatically ranted. “Those ponies never know how to have fun!” he cried.

“Yeah, cause you took either their horns or wings for a full two hours!” Rainbow explained.

Discord huffed. “That was only by accident!”

Rainbow snorted. “Anyways, I had plenty of re-re-re-rereading to catch up on, so I had no problem!” she smirked as she saw Discord's reddening face. Daring Do was always awesome, no matter how many times you read it.

“That’s awesome, Dashie! Anyways, did you know that in 10 days, 17 hours, 5 minutes, and 25 seconds it’s going to be AppleJack’s BIRTHDAY?!?” Pinkie squealed, putting the tray down (the cupcake got eaten) and jumping up to hug her orange earth pony friend.

“Oh gosh, Ah almost forgot, thanks Pinkie.” AppleJack blushed in her seat as the pink pony hugged her tight.

“Really? Wow, it seems like only a few days ago we were celebrating your last birthday.” Fluttershy commented, excited for the country pony.

“What are you going to do for your birthday, AJ? Buck apple trees or have some fun? I gotta know.” Rainbow asked her friend slyly. Rainbow liked to tease the country pony. It was fun!

Discord, on the other hand, whispered into Fluttershy ear and teleported off. Within an instant he appeared in front of the Tree of Harmony. “Wait, what?” He asked, confused. "I’m supposed to be in the Everfree Forest! Why am I here?” He frowned.

“Discord, my my, have you grown ever since I last saw you!” Came a sweet, calm voice, and Staria appeared right before his eyes. In truth when she looked at him he did look much different. Ever since the events of opening the flower chest his long body had gotten a slight bit shorter, and his legs seemed bigger, more used to standing on all fours, and he could actually sit back without looking weird.

“S-Staria?!? How is this possible? How-” Discord stammered.

“Don’t worry, you are only seeing a mere apparition, my dear! But I must talk with you, and these past events…” Staria's hoof caressed Discord’s cheek gently like a mother that was caressing her child. Discord blushed at her soft touch which felt so real he almost couldn’t believe it. “You are fighting with yourself, Discord, why?” she asked softly, stepping back to look at him.

“Staria,” He took a deep breath. “I have been fighting with myself, -I-I just don’t know what to do…” His softer side began to show, his personality before the incident becoming clear. “Ever since I began to show my feelings for Fluttershy and my reforming, I have the feeling to just...become evil and chaotic again, a-and I want to unleash all that chaotic magic within me, rule the world! But I also want to just become my old self again...I have to admit I miss the old days when you were still alive, Staria.” Discord confessed all the stiffness inside him completely giving out.

“I know all that energy inside you is building up; I can see that you can’t hold it all in and you have to constantly do little things to keep it from going over control. So, that’s why I want you to take out all your chaotic energy on the tree.” Staria offered.

“And lose my powers! How could I! I would never-!”

“You wouldn’t lose your magic abilities, you would just not have the drive for chaos anymore, do you understand? You have done so much to help everypony else, something I haven’t seen you do since my death. You saved Princess Luna, and your dear friend Fluttershy! You are able to love somepony, something that you never did after that little “crush” you had on Celestia.” Staria winked, and Discord blushed.

“S-So? She had feelings for me too!” Discord began to protest like a little child, and reddened even more, which caused Staria to chuckle in amusement.

“Yes, that is true. But I just want you to decide. Are you willing to help us out?” the beautiful alicorn asked.

“Wait, us? What do you mean-?” Discord gasped as an apparition of Celestia appeared before him.

“Hello, Discord.” the multicolored alicorn greeted with a slightly red face; she had heard the conversation they had all along.

“Now do you see?” Staria asked.

“Yes,” Discord replied, and he sighed. “And I choose to do it." he paused and added: "Whatever you want me to do.”

“Good! Celestia, mind helping me?” Staria asked her eldest daughter, and a magical aura surrounded the draconeqqus. He was lifted into the air, and soon the brightly colored aura surrounded him no more. Even though he still kept to the air, defying gravity itself. The entire area flashed in an chaotic light, and Discord’s eyes became pure white. The Tree of Harmony glowed brightly as a beam of light struck and surrounded it, dissolving itself as it was sucked into the tree. Discord’s carving on the tree glowed, and soon he was lowered back to the ground. His eyes were closed and he lay for a moment before blinking and slowly getting up.

“Ugh, my head,” he groaned before sitting back on his back legs. “I didn’t expect that to hurt,” he mumbled.

“Apologies my dear, feel better?” Staria asked, looking down at him. Discord got up.

“Yes, it seems I don’t feel so...stressed now. I think I might’ve needed just that.” He looked towards the Tree if Harmony. “Wait, is that my...cutie mark?” He looked intently at the carving, finally acknowledging it.

“Yes, I guess it finally realized that you were one if it’s creators, after stepping into it in your “reformed” stage of mind. But I see now that you are fully cured of the darkness that was in you.” Staria said calmly, smiling back at the tree.

“Woah,” Discord mumbled before snapping back to the current situation. “Wait a second, how long have I been gone? Aren’t these ponies here going to notice that I no longer have the drive for chaos?” He questioned the two alicorns.

“By your sarcasm, I don’t think they will. But don't worry, you will still want to commit to a few pranks, just not anything necessarily...bad. On the other note, you haven’t been out long, Discord. In fact, you still have much time until the others begin to worry. Well, before mostly Fluttershy begins to worry.” Celestia guessed, but then added. “You should try improving your relationship with some of them more now that you've been distant from them these past two years.”

“I'll try, but I'm not making any promises, Tia!” Discord chuckled, and looked around. “Well, I guess I should be on my way then, thanks Staria, and you too Tia. Chao!” Discord teleported and the princesses soon dissolved into nothing once again. The draconeqqus found himself back at Fluttershy’s cottage all alone, and he greeted her with a kiss.

There was much to tell her about.

Author's Note

I am very happy with how this chapter came out! It seems like I am writing more and more every chapter! (Litteraly this is the longest chater by far, about 8-9 pages in google docs!) I hope you enjoy, like, and favorite!
If you have anything nice to say, or any questions, please comment below~!
(BTW I proofread this chapter, so you should find no mistakes!)
Next chapter will be called, "Birthday" and I have little tidbits like the Flash part, and that's for Flash Century and Twilight! They make Flashlights, yes yes.
And more feels to come soon! (Hopefully!)