Abode of Madness

We're just ordinary people, you and me

Time will turn us into statues, eventually

We got by, though we never needed much

A sliver of hope, no diamond rings

We got high, it was heaven it was hell

Flying over them, with broken wings

-The Foo Fighters

It has been several months now since Diablo Got a job, she got A raise and now she can Just about afford the worst place to live in the whole city, it's nowhere near the pretty lights of Times square where all the Someponies are. She's a Nopony. but she's living an independent life, she can stay up as long as she wants now, but  chooses not to stay up not too late, or she can't get up for work.

She loves her home. its got a few pictures of her family, and some flowers she managed to buy. it's a small apartment  and it's got no wallpaper  but it's hers. all hers.

Diablo made her way to her 1pm Shift to hold Book club that day. Book club had finished 'Quest for the sapphire stone' long ago. she passed Tome on the way in the Library and was informed that Todays book was Waiting for her on Her desk.  Book club was at 3pm, But she came early So she had good time to read the book first. it was relatively short, so she had time to get the gist of it.

When entering the library, one would notice the place was a lot cleaner and has a lot less dust then when Diablo arrived. Tome says she has '' young knees'' so she could fly up and Dust the top of all the bookshelves. She's  been doing some basic ordering of the books, Too. Nothing extreme,  But enough so ponies would actually want to spend time there.

Diablo Approached Her desk and pounced on the Wheely chair. She spun around to face the book and scooped it up.

'the wings of chaos, By Honey Seed. "Huh. Cool name'' She said to herself. The front of the book has a picture of some, Weird dragon thing. it had mismatched horns,  mismatched wings and  mismatched limbs. huh. Nice.

She flipped the book over to read the Strange blurb.

He brought such Tyranny.

Such Chaos and hate.

but I can't stop staring at his statue.

I don't want to stop.

he's alive in there, I can feel it.

He's watching me too.

"Riiight" Diablo huffed to herself. "Let's read this thing."

Diablo Read the book carefully. the books first chapters started off with a pony named Honey seed who would occasionally visited the Discord statue, because legend has it the creature still lurks inside.

The book continues from an occasional visit to more, often visits.

Honey seed's friends start to worry about her , The statue began to take up most lines of her conversation.

Honey seed leaves them, she knows a true friend wouldn't  deny her favourite hobby to be that of obsession.

the book goes onto her Eventually spending whole nights there, Drawing or sketching him.

Time Ticked, Pages where flipped and Endless amounts of words filtered through the young pony's mind. Chapters where destroyed in minutes.

A pony approached Diablo's desk. She was kicked back in her seat with her hind hooves planted on the desk top. ''Excuse me-''

''BAH'' Diablo Yelped as she sat bolt upright. The other pony jumped in response.  "uh. you alright there ma'am" said the Colt

"Yeah, yeah i'm fine" She wiped her forehead in relief. "What can I Do for you?" she smiled.

"I'm looking for the star swirl the bearded section" Replied the colt.  "Ah." She sat up further  in her chair and pointed down the library.

"second shelf from the end, you'll see it labelled  on the front of the row there, do you see?"

The other pony looked in the direction she was pointing '' Ah. yep Yeah I see it. Thank you ma-""

"Have you read this book?"  Diablo interrupted his thanks.

" Uh."  The pony look at the over as Diablo held it up so he could see " Yes. It's about Discord, right?" He replied.

"yes! I'm not too sure what i think of it, yet. though." Diablo replied.

"It's .. Yeah it's Good." The other pony awkwardly replied.

The pony quickly trotted off and Diablo continued reading.

(an extract from the book:)

I can't tell morning from night anymore. I don't want to go home. I have to evade the guards from telling me to leave.   He's made of stone, he has no choice but to listen to me. at first I just thought he was a lifeless object. but now I know he's in there. We stay up talking all night. he's a good listener.

He's my best friend.

He spent my birthday together. I can't believe he remembered.

I can't imagine  how uncomfortable he is.

trapped in there.

I just want to tell him how I feel. He's Beautiful.  I want to tell him now. but no. I want to wait until he breaks out.

''What?" Diablo said to the book. "Break out? He can do that? Pah! how lame! you can't just break out of prison like that!''

I want to tell him I love him.   No, I must wait.

Diablo Went to flip the page. It was blank. She had reached the end of the Book.

"Thank Celestia! That was a Bore."  she put the book down just in time  to notice 8 ponies walk through the  door. it was 3pm. Book club. She sat in silence behind her desk and watched as they proceeded to take their coats and scarves off to hang them up. they each grabbed a chair with  either their magic or  used their hooves to push them to form a  semi-circle around Diablo's Desk.

They sat there waiting for Diablo to speak.  However she had somehow drifted off into space. She was staring at nothing like the idiot she was.

This awl routine for the ponies of book club. they knew how Weird Diablo could get. So,  the ponies all looked at each other. One blue pegasus gestured  to Diablo's direction to an earth pony. The pony Shook their head. It was as if they where deciding amongst them which one would wake Diablo up. The blue pegasus rolled her eyes. is must have been she who did it last week.  she persisted on the pony. The other ponies began to agree with her. the earth pony, with a huff, leaned out of his seat and tapped his hooves together over his head. Diablo snapped out of her trance and  she cleared her throat. "Um. So, Yeah. Todays book. Let's talk about it. "  the other ponies smiled. Diablo was back!

"Hm... Who to pick on. Ah, Fortunate Stir,  Start off with you, let's see what you liked about this book most"

the Unicorn  stood up with his copy of the book firmly in his magic's grasp.

"I like how the book Starts off with Honey being perfectly sane, she has a natural curiosity like any pony would with something, but it eventually descends into Madness. she's making up things that aren't really there, like, their conversations-''

Another pony chuckled. Her name was Icy Storm,  the blue pegasus pony whom Diablo had made good friends with during her time in Manehatten. she got up and said " My  favourite part was when she had to decided her dress for the gala! she had a full conversation with herself, but we felt like it was with the statue."

the other ponies chuckled.

Fortunate stir continued " It's  an interesting concept how one can make delusions look so real. " And with that he and icy sat down.

"Yes, but her friendships in the real world suffered because of it." Icy responded.

"That's interesting how you called it 'the real world' just then, Icy. She's in the real world, we all know that, but it's interesting how she wrote it like she was somewhere else." Diablo responded.

The  other ponies nodded in agreement.

"What did you think overall, Diablo?" The Earthpony asked.

"Hm..." Diablo thought for a  moment " Eh. didn't like it.  I mean, at the end of the day, it was a pony who was crying over some.. stone dude."

The other ponies chuckled " I liked it!" Said icy. The other ponies Agreed with gentle smiles.

"Now, onto Discord,  He's  Real, right?" Diablo asked.

The ponies all laughed. Another Unicorn  Replied " Yeah, you've not heard of him before?"

"Nah"

Fortunate stir stood up proudly with his information "AH, Well.  he is called a Draconequus. And  he Used to rule over  Equestria with chaos, That is before Princesses Locked him away in stone. This was a bit of time before the Nightmare Moon Event."

"Ahh. how do you know all of this? the book tells us none of that" Diablo said as she inspected the blurb once more.

"There are other books about it, you know" Icy said. "You do work in a library!" She chuckled.

"That's true. You guys continue Talking about the book, And i'll go look for some factual books" Diablo hopped down from her Desk and  made her way down the various towers of bookshelves.

the nine ponies talked amongst themselves, their voices getting quieter as Diablo Walked further along looking For the books. She got to "D" in the alphabet, Soon she'll have all the books About this mysterious Drconi-What's-a-name.  She scanned the shelf to find the Right name of the book.

Dancing 101! your guide to dancing!

Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone.

Daring Do and the Ring of Destiny.

Dragons

complete journal of dragons

Dragon Guide

Dragon language

Dragon Species

Dra...

D...

D..

D.

Draconequus Mytohology

Discord's Rise and fall

Discord. the complete timeline

"Huh" She said as she found several books addressing the strange character. "People must be very interested in him then. meh. may as well read up on it" Diablo  said as she pulled the books.

Diablo returned to the discussion after finding a bag in the staff room the carry the books in. the rest of the Talk consisted of why Diablo Hated the book, and why Discord's role in the book was just plain annoying. Followed by ponies and their opinions.

Book Club ended at 4:30. Diablo waved goo bye to her friends, Cleaned up coffee mugs and whatnot, an locked up.

it was just another day for her.