Five months of Chaos

by The Blackcuno

Rating: teen
Tags: Discord, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Random, Twilight Sparkle, Main 6
Length: 12194

Twilight finds out the hard way why chaos isn't as straight forward as she thought. thanks to Discord, she now has Five months to figure it out.

After the Events with Tirek and the box that became the seed of friendship, Discord took it upon himself to give Twilight a better present than a key that was once a medallion.

He gave her the Earring's of Profound Change.

It was said in the Journal of Star Swirl that these earrings allowed one, if the right statement is said whilst wearing them, they would spend an allotted amount of time as something other than pony.

This is the story of how Twilights once boring life literally took a turn at the road of Banana's and Crazy town, but maybe she could live with it.

Published 2014-07-12 16:00:03 UTC
Last updated 2015-01-18 13:47:23 UTC

Draconequus Sparkle

It wasn’t something that she considered as a ‘viable option’ to simply incinerate the objects in question, but it was one that came to mind. The idea came when Discord had sent her a set of golden bands with what appeared to be 5 gemstones of decreasing size in a soft circle of gold that would clip onto a pony’s ear. It contained some of the most powerful magic Twilight had ever felt with an enchantment probe before.

“The earrings of profound change” she read out loud as the wooden box had label on the golden plaque imbedded in the wood about half an inch. The note that had come was written with only the words.

‘Try them out. Discord’

Swallowing she wondered exactly what they would do, especially when it was from him, but resigned to the fate of ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained’. Taking them in her magic she floated them over to her ears and attached them. With a soft click they attached to her ears and though her crown was nestled in her mane behind her horn, she smiled as they suited her.

Walking out of her bedroom and down the flight of stairs, having yet to name her new abode of purple crystal that looked like a tree, she headed down to where her breakfast was waiting. Sitting idly back in a hammock of deep blue floating crystal was the Draconequus himself, Discord, who glanced over when she walked in and whistled catching her attention.

“Ah my dear Twilight. I see you found a little gift of mine I left for you” he said. “Think of this as a replacement because the other one was a key or so I heard from a little bird”

“They are certainly lovely, thankyou Discord” Twilight said happily. Taking some of her breakfast, she noticed that Discord was watching her intently. “Is something the matter I don’t have bed mane do I?”

“No you do not and well, I was wondering. What made you change your mind about me? My devilishly good looks or something else” he asked, slicking his hair back with his magic.

“I don’t know Discord. But what I do know is that you are friends with Fluttershy and though she may trust you, I still don’t entirely trust you yet” Twilight admitted and deadpanned.

“Oh Twilight, that hurts, but still you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be a loner” Discord said placing his paw on his heart only to let a cloud appear over his head.

“Come again? You do realise I spent the better part of my life locked away in a library. Secondly no I wouldn’t know what it’s like to be a Draconequus because I’m an Alicorn” she scolded.

“Oh no need to be like that Twilight. I understand but imagine if you will having no pony to like you, no pony to even enjoy the laughter of chaos like I would” he said lowering his head in almost feigned sadness.

“Listen, Discord. If I could I would, but even if ‘I want to be a Draconequus’, it’s not like I can make it happen by simply saying that” she said as Discord changed from pure sadness to a Chester cat smile that would make the joker grin look normal. “What?”
“My dear, what a long tail you have” he said floating over as Twilight looked at him confused.

“What long tail-“She said glancing back. Attached to her, in place of her tail, was one of a long eastern Dragon styled one with a purple and pink tuft at the end. “-Discord what-did-you-do-to-me!”

“oh nothing much” he replied as Twilights left leg shifted from a pony hoof into that of a deer’s, her right retaining as her staple purple pony one.

“Stop it Discord please!” she shouted her chest barrelled up, increasing her size to match the length of Discords. Her left fore-hoof became a white tiger’s paw whilst her right a dragons claw of deep emerald green. “No what’s going on, Discord what’s going on?”
“Well you did say you wanted to be a Draconequus” he replied nonchalantly, pulling out some popcorn as her neck increased in length, one of her wings replaced with that of an owl whilst her other remained the same.

Her horn quickly pushed back in as a pair of nubs appeared in their place, doe horns, but her face became a little more longer before with a solid resounding ‘pop’ she was completely done. Her entire form then slammed into the crystal table as she blinked in confusion as to the sensations from her body.

“And I must say my dear, you do make a nice Draconequus” he said coyly as she looked up at him and glared daggers.

“Discord. I’m going to give you a five second head start before I hunt you down” she said with venom holding her new tiger paw up with four digits. ”One, two-“

“Well I best be off then ta-ta for now ha-ha” he said pointing to a door that had appeared, just as she said four. He disappeared in a flash and nervous laughter leaving a door knob which popped into confetti.

“Five-“she said softly before letting out an in-pony scream of anger comprising of the word ‘discord’ that rattled the tower so much that Spike rolled over in pure annoyance and brushed it off as another Monday morning.

~0~0~

Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were both enjoying the midmorning picnic they had decided to take after a rather busy few days with the events of Tireck still playing over their minds. Pinkie laughed at the fact that Fluttershy still cowered from the idea, but the pair giggled it off.

Pinkie then went into what could be described as Pinkie-ability special which Fluttershy put a hoof to her mouth in either awe or shock.

“Whoo-ee, that was a doozie and a half, something completely random has happened and it wasn’t me” Pinkie said happily as a door opened near them and Discord, disguised as a small otter, rushed to Fluttershy’s side. “Ooh, Discord what are you doing here?”

“Hide me” he said cowering into Fluttershy’s hair.

“From?”

‘Discord!’ Twilight’s voice cried out from the town that was a fair distance from the new crystal tree palace.

“Twilight!” He almost whispered, Fluttershy looked down at him as out of nowhere a huge flash of pure purple jelly appeared. In the middle was Draconequus Twilight who looked half disgusted at the jelly. Her new face was twitching in annoyance as Fluttershy gasped but Pinkie was chewing on a mouthful of jelly because she had been doused in the stuff.

“Mm, tastes of blueberries. Hiya Twilight, what you doing?” Pinkie Pie asked completely oblivious to the fact that Twilight was not herself, literally.

“Pinkie. I’m a Draconequus if you haven’t noticed and it’s all his fault”
“My fault, you’re the one who said you wanted to be a Draconequus not me” Discord defended quickly, becoming a defence attorney with a whacked haircut.

“Discord, explain to me how this is my fault”

“Twilight, I know you’re angry right now; but Discord will explain. Wont he” Fluttershy said quickly enough to defuse the situation. Discord conjured up a chair for her and a gavel, to which Twilight ‘snapped’ her dragon claw to make it all go away just as quick as it had appeared.

“Okay fine, I was going to see how long it lasted anyway. She has simply triggered the powers of the earrings that she is wearing. They are called ‘profound change’ for a reason” he said appearing to have a pair appear in his hands. “I created them after all so I know all about them”

“Okay so change me back” Twilight commented hastily.

“No can do” he replied.

“Discord, change her back please” Fluttershy asked nicely.

“I can’t and even if I wanted to I made sure that the spell would run its course first” he said as said earrings started to race around her head before ‘screeching to a halt’ and re-attaching to her ears with the sound of parking vans ‘beeping’. “Which I recalled would be quite some time”

“How long Discord” Twilight asked tapping her doe hoof with impatience.

“Well-“he said trailing off before finishing as Fluttershy poked him. “-5 months”

“What!” Twilight screamed again. “5 Months are you serious. There is no way I can be like this for 5 whole months!”

“Why not. I mean you could also study your new form” Fluttershy mentioned. “I mean if you wanted to”

“Urgh, I’m pissed off, but at least I can figure out how your chaos magic works” Twilight replied with a defeated sigh.

“Wouldn’t recommend that” Discord said as Twilight glared at him.

“And why not, is it because something like an anvil will fall from the sky or I disappear and re-appear pregnant, or swap places with Celestia or what Discord? You cannot keep informing me of things on the fly it doesn’t work-“she said only to be slammed on the head by an Anvil to which knocked her out cold.

“That’s why, chaos cannot be organised, it’s to-“he began waving his griffin clawed hand around in circles. “-Chaotic to be organised”
“Oh my, will she be okay?”

“Positively fine Fluttershy my dear” Discord said grabbing Twilight, hoisting her up, conjuring up a bucket of water only to throw the bucket not the water. The metal acted as water and Twilight blinked back awake.

“What just happened? And what fluid did you hit me with”

“Chaos did my dear. See” he said pointing at the anvil. Twilight teleported away again a few short feet back she blinked as it grew wings and flew off. “Like I tried to say, Chaos cannot be controlled only directed”

“I cannot believe you Urgh” Twilight exclaimed throwing her new hands up casting out what appeared to be either a fine ash or powder.
Pinkie quickly tasted it and revelled in the taste before Twilight teleported away once more. This time leaving behind what appeared to be a white, semisolid goo.

Discord tasted it before his eyes widened. “Wow, she is a connoisseur of chaos magic”

“What?”

“That is the best soft white fudge I have ever tasted” Pinkie exclaimed looking around quickly and before any pony else could take it from her, she proceeded to devour the remains in less that five seconds.

Author's Note

I want to test the waters so to speak and see if people want more of this story before I proceed.

I have the next chapter and it involves Celestia and chocolate, along with copious amounts of uncontrolled crazy.

Ammended - 23/07/2014 - minor adjustments and spelling of certain words.

Leaving her mark on the Monarchs

Twilight sat in the basement of the new tower breathing in slowly trying to control herself from either blowing something up or turning something into a watermelon. Ether worked for her but she was trying to figure out, to no avail mind you, why her magic was playing up the way that it did.

The basement of the new ‘tree house’ housed a huge open area which Twilight has promptly filled with various things to help her do some magic training such as balls, inflated bags, gymnastic mats and the like for practice should any further crisis come about; Now though she was trying to figure out her magic and was using the area for its purpose of practise and experimentation.

Casting out her hand, the stress ball that was on the other side of the room she commanded her magic to get it for her using telekinesis. The result though was a hundred balls being conjured raining down on her head comically which made her groan out in annoyance. Sighing she ‘wished for something to wake her up’ mentally, in response a glass of water appeared in front of her face.

“Great, so now you start to work” she muttered, taking it in her clawed hand and drank it. She looked down and moaned as it was the glass she had drank not the water. Sighing she threw it at a wall yelling out in anger from that. The result wasn’t the explosion like Discord had a few years back, but it splattered against the wall leaving a small amount of semi-solid blue substance sticking to the wall.

Floating over to it, which she found she could do just as naturally as flying, she tasted it and her eyes widened. “Blueberry jam? But then- argh that makes no sense! Okay I’m going to figure this out one way or another” she shouted out to no-pony in particular.

She floated over to a pad that had a pen and paper and began to write down the things she had discovered so far, though she was dictating to the paper as the pen wrote itself.

‘Point one – chaos magic doesn’t like being told what to do; but will do what you ask it to’ she quoted as the pen nodded before writing down also ‘discord was right you nonce’

Rolling her eyes she continued to dictate to the pen as it waited eagerly to continue with its work.

‘Point two – My magic leaves traces of extremely tasty food around where either I teleport to or chaos magic results. Note I threw a glass of water at the wall and it became blueberry jam’

Tapping her finger on her chin she mused. “Five months trapped in this form with only one creature who can understand but I cannot trust. I guess all I need to do is enjoy this as best I can? No, I need to note down all I can about chaos magic”

She levitated around the room a few times in place of actually pacing.

“I cannot stay here for the whole 5 months, but then again, Discord is reformed so I wonder. Pinkie wouldn’t be upset and Dash always says she’s the better prankster. Hrm, I have a wonderful idea, one they will never see coming. I know you here Discord and I have a proposition for you”

“Awe, and I was so happy watching you throw water at the wall and watching the resulting splat. Though I must admit to your credit, your creation of food from chaos is interesting to say the least” Discord said appeared from the ceiling by a trapdoor, ceiling lol-cat style.

“Well, you said I have 5 months yeah. Well, the way I see it, the element of magic is mine and considering in now like you-“
“-I don’t see what this has to do with-“

“-Urgh your denser than a boulder made of pure diamond soaked in obsidian” Twilights stated as Discords head morphed into a diamond. “Interesting, Pen can you note that down please-“the pen saluted and noted what she was thinking, “-well I’ve known for a long time you want to ‘let loose’ but how about this. A prank war”

“I beg your pardon, but did I just hear you correctly? The miss of all magic, princess of friendship, just declared a prank war on moi?” he said placing his lion paw on his chest. “The master of chaos himself? Are you sure you have not gone completely insane?”
“Well, it’s either that or we, and yes I said we, prank Celestia, Cadence and Luna. But if we go with the princesses, you cannot let slip about my form just yet, I want to see what the results are, scientifically speaking that is. Your choice” Twilight said grinning.

“You know, I never picked you as a ‘Chaos sower’ Princess Twilight” Discord said.

“Well, if you don’t like it I can revoke my offer and I’ll go back to being an egghead” Twilight retorted crossing her arms.

“I would think those earrings have gone straight to your head”

“No, I know Luna Is a prankster at heart and Cadence always likes a good joke here and there. So, are you going to put your money where your mouth is or are you going to have a bit of fun?”

“A Female after my own heart, well then my dear. You can lead, I’m thinking the Princesses first then the prank war”

“Deal, I’ll be right back” Twilight said snapping her dragon claw finger before disappearing in a shower of white taffy once more. Discord smiled before grabbing said taffy and devouring it to his pleasure, thinking of ways he can win this supposed war.

~0~0~

Celestia hummed a tune as she slipped in deeper into the swimming pool sized heated bath located in the deeper parts of the castle of Canterlot. It was nice for her to just relax for once in a while without needing to worry about anything regarding the courts. She deemed it a few years back that all Sundays are court free days for the soul purpose of allowing her time off from the tasks she was forced into being a ruler.

She continued like this, simply relaxing in the self-heating bath; that was until a smell hit her nose, blinking a few times she sniffed again.

“Chocolate?” she muttered looking down she screamed before teleporting out quickly in an act of pure panic more than anything. The entire pool was still water but it smelt of chocolate. Lowering her head to the water level she tasted it and it was the taste of hot water. Her mind raced but it skidded to a halt when she looked in the waters reflection. Her entire coat was now a soft peachy white colour looking down at her hoof, the same colour was there but the hoof was solid colour of milk white chocolate. “Okay, that’s enough, Discord!” she bellowed loud enough for Luna to hear across the castle complex.

“You rang princess” Discord asked appearing. “Oh my, what have you done to your coat, it looks good enough to eat” he sniggered a bit, Twilight had outdone herself with this one and he would have fun watching old Sun Butt deal with it.

“Change me back now before I lose my cool” Celestia said firmly. Discord rolled his eyes before snapping his fingers. Celestia sighed as the magic washed over her but nothing happened. She opened her eyes as Discord was concerned. “What?”

“Well-“he said. “-I cannot revert this change”

“Discord what are you talking about, stop playing around and change me back now”

“Well the thing is this wasn’t me”

“I beg your pardon but what did you just say?” Celestia asked, her wings flaring in shock of this matter, she would know if a new Chaos user was around from her innate nature of being an Alicorn.

“It wasn’t me I swear” he said placing his hand on his heart. “Another Chaos magic user did this not me and thus I cannot revert it”

“You have got to be kidding me. Okay fine then” she muttered. “I’m going to find out who this is and bring them to justice and if I found out it was you, not even Fluttershy can stop me from turning you back into a lawn ornament!” Celestia snarled before storming out, each hoof step left behind a burning mark for a few seconds before fading again.

Twilight appeared next to Discord giggling like a school girl on a sugar high. “That was amazing! No wonder you love doing it so much” she commented as Discord smirked.

“Her coat?”

“Fur actually, she is still flesh and blood, only her coat and hooves are white chocolate” Twilight commented. “Now then time to get Luna. Ideas?”

“I have one in mind” Discord said happily leaning in and whispering it into her ear. Her eyes went wide before she nodded and teleported away to act on the suggestion.

~0~0~

“You arrogant little douche bag; how dare you complain about my camping and sniping skills when you yourself camp, bucking hypocrite!” Luna shouted over the headset she was using to complain. “And do not call me a haxor when you yourself admit to it, should I find you I will send you to the moon for insulting me!”

Rolling her eyes in response to the colt on the other end kicked up a stink further to which Luna muted him and took the headset off; logging out of the game she moaned but smiled at the same time, she got some level of joy out of goading trolls online. She got up and stretched her now stiff limbs, which popped as the three hour binge of gaming did that to her.

She swore she heard her sister shout loudly ‘discord’ about fifteen minutes ago but nothing came through the ‘official’ calling device, aka her room was fitted with a magical receiver that would light up should her presence be needed.

She walked a few steps to the door but stopped as her hooves felt, heavy and sounded clunky. Raising an eyebrow she looked down and let out a scream of terror as a HUD appeared over her vision. Blinking a few times she rushed over to the mirror before her mouth moved in shock.

She was looking at a near perfect metallic replica of her face was looking back. Her eyes were replaced with what appeared to be optics. Her wings replaced with folded jet engines, tail replaced with what appeared to be a holographic projection of it. The main parts of her body though was quite streamlined and hid the joints well. Each hoof had a metal hoof guard shaped like her hoof wear was normally. Craning her neck she could move normally without much restriction at all.

“What hath happened to me?” she asked, her voice slightly metallic in tone as a message appeared in her field of view as a small envelope with a red exclamation mark next to it. Looking at it, the message opened stating ‘you are needed now in the main chambers, we have a massive issue – Celestia’. Blinking caused it to remove itself from her field of view.

“Urgh, but how can I go out there looking like this” she stated firmly. “If it is urgent then I suppose I need to, if this is Discords doing, I am going to beat him within an inch of his life!” She opened the door and strode out as her personal guards looked at her raising their eyebrows at the sudden ‘robotic version’ of Luna appeared from the room.

“Princess, if we may ask but what happened?”

“I don’t know, but I will find out” she said back, her voice lacking any form of emotion. She strode for a good five minutes through the corridors of the castle, the clanking of metal on marble was getting on her nerves as she entered the main room where Celestia was waiting.

“Sister what has happened to you?” Celestia asked as Luna ‘shrugged’ as best she could in her new form.

“If I knew that, I would be able to answer, but you are chocolate according to my sensors-” Luna asked walking up. “-buck this, sorry but this is confusing for me”

“I understand Luna, and it’s not Discords doing. But it is chaos magic” Celestia explained as Luna took a seat next to her.

“I beg your pardon but that doesn’t compute- sorry doesn’t make sense” Luna commented as Celestia tapped her ‘wing’ curiously. One of them reacted immediately firing off and catapulting the unsuspecting Luna into a wall. With a scream, akin to Wilhelm, and a solid crash seconds later she slid down the wall and landed comically in a heap. “Ouch, Celestia that hurt”

“Sorry. Once we find whoever is doing this, then we will be sure they correct this. I have sent a letter to Twilight asking to be looking out any strange things that may be happening” Celestia commented before sighing and using her magic to pick Luna up out of the head and placing her on a chair.

“It could be amusing to see what happens to Cadence then” Luna mentioned idly, her jets flaring up once more before dying down.

~0~0~

Cadence, the princess of love and of the crystal empire, was sitting neatly in her private chambers; sipping some tea as she looked out of the window and into the gardens that lined the wing of the castle where she was sitting. Sipping again she could have sworn she heard her aunty scream out ‘Discords’ name at one point.

Sighing she wondered a few stray thoughts of Shining Armour and children, before a small voice called out snapping her out of the thoughts of children and unicorns.

“Mum, what’s the matter” the voice asked.

Cadence’s head snapped to where a filly was sitting neatly with her. Cadence looked her over, Alicorn with electric blue mane and tail, her coat was a deep pink colour, no cutie mark to be seen but her eyes were the same as hers. “Who are you?”

“I’m your daughter mum, did you forget that, your silly if you did?” the filly commented to which Cadence shook her head in denial of what she was saying.

“I- no that’s not right you cannot be as I would know if I had a child” Cadence replied harshly, the filly cocked her head to the side as a response to the accusation.

“Did you hit your head mum? Because you did have me” the filly stated.

“Stop lying to me before I call the guards in to have you arrested for trespassing-” she began as the Filly looked at Cadence before tears formed, Cadence held her demeanour as the child bawled her eyes out. Her heart sank before the filly bolted for the door,

using some form of magic, she teleported out of the room with a flash of purple-pink light. Only one pony she knew had that form of teleport colouration and she was in ponyville.

Cadence was perplexed at the sudden outburst but bolted after the filly who had only teleported out of the room and into the corridor. Cadence threw the doors open and looked as the filly was running down the corridors towards the main chambers. Cadence didn’t know what to do only to chase after the filly.

The filly teleported past another door which Cadence threw open to a surprised Celestia and Luna. Her mouth dropped as the scent of Chocolate hit her nose and Luna appeared to be made of metal.

“Speaking of the pony, Cadence, we don’t know-“

“Aunty Luna, why are you a robot?”

“And who is this?” Luna asked

“I was sitting in my room when she appeared out of nowhere claiming to be my daughter!” Cadence exclaimed.

“I am though!”

“Someone’s sick sense of humour” Celestia commented. “And it’s not Discord”

“What do you mean it’s not Discord?” Cadence asked. “Besides, how can some pony summon up a pony from nothing?”

“This is most dire of circumstances. I am sending this letter to Twilight directly instead of Spike” Celestia stated using her magic to send the scroll which vanished in golden light. “Hopefully nothing like this has happened to her-“

The Filly Belched loudly as the scroll re-appeared in front of her.

“Eh ha, ha” she said backing up as Celestia glared at her. “Well, cats out of the bag no so whoops-“

“-Twilight, is that really you, did you get affected by the chaos magic to?” Cadence asked.

“Uh no- not really. Well I guess the gig is up” Twilight stated as she walked back to the centre of the room.

“What do you mean- the gig is up” Luna asked with caution.

“Discord didn’t do this. I did” Twilight admitted beaming at the idea as she did.

“What but how-“Celestia asked confused as a flash of light revealed Draconequus Twilight, floating there neatly stifling a massive laugh from her. “-What but- no that’s impossible”

“Oh man the look on your face when I turned your coat to chocolate was priceless and even blaming Discord was a right laugh!”
“Twilight, you better have a good explanation to this”

“Because why not?” she replied nonchalantly. “Besides, I thought it was amusing to try out these powers of mine, and who better than you three. Oh and Cadence, I slipped a little something into that tea you were drinking. I would suggest you find Shining ASAP as it’s about to hit in around 5 seconds”

“What are you talking about-“Cadence began before her face shifted from concern to half lidded expression of pleasure and pure lust, her mouth dropped and drooled before she blinked a few times at Luna..

“-That’s why. Princess of Love is about to show my Shinning why that’s the case and I would not doubt that I will be an aunt in the next few months.” Twilight said snapping her dragon clawed hand which teleported Cadence away leaving behind some strawberries sitting neatly in a bowl of white cream in her wake.

“So you were behind this? Where is Discord in all of this, more importantly how are you a Draconequus?” Luna questioned, her jets firing off as wings would flare out in anger.

“Well, cool your jets and let me explain, Discord wanted to give me a little gift as the last one was the last key I needed for my castle to be grown”

5 minutes later of the explanation.

“So yeah, now I’m stuck like this and wanted to try the new powers out and you all were perfect for it” Twilight said as Luna and Celestia Returned to normal with a soft flash of purple. “Sorry if you took it the wrong way-“

“It was refreshing to say the least and you were honest about it. No harm no foul” Luna said happy that she was now flesh and blood over metal once more.

“And Discord didn’t know?” Celestia asked with genuine concern in her voice.

“Oh he knows, I asked him not to let it slip” Twilight commented. “But I have since proofed this room of him, I need to ask though. Is it a bad thing I’m starting to see him in a different light?”

“How so?” Celestia asked, Twilight tapped her fingers together and blushed as Luna went oh. “Ah I see, well then, go with what you desire most. If it’s 5 months you have in that form before it wears off, then I won’t hold you”

“I have been trying but I really don’t know if I can handle it” Twilight said, “I mean it will be good to view magic from the Chaos end, I have also been recording what I can, but I don’t know what’s going to happen to me on a whole”

“If by chance you remain like this, we will not think anything less of you” Celestia commented as Twilight breathed a sigh of relief, “But you must know. Discord is alone out in the world. Though he has friends he does not have others of his kind. Take that into consideration also”

“Thankyou I guess. Now then, I best be off before I regret leaving Discord alone” Twilight said, she vanished with a snap and left white molasses in her wake.

“I hope that will be the only outburst of Randomness we get from her” Celestia said solemnly.

“Sister, Twilight will be fine. She is strong willed and will not fail”

“That is not what I meant and you know it. The errant nature of the Draconequus as you just was witness too is that they are attracted to making chaos. Twilight will need to rely on her friends more now than ever. For should she fail, I fear that we may be dealing with another Discord”

Luna paled to a soft white as the realisation hit her.

“We can only hope she pulls through, I do not wish to turn her to stone to prevent the chaos from being destructive”

Author's Note

Chapter 2 as promised - next one is nearing ready.

Time Flies when having fun

“Twilight are you sure that nothing is the matter?” Rarity asked as the Draconequus that was Twilight, who was floating on a cloud of white taffy and almonds in the basement of her castle, sobbing incoherently all the while. Said basement now sported various chaotic things from her errant magic going haywire instead of the natural organised mess it was prior. In her clawed hand was a bucket of some kind of conjured creation of hers which she was eating with a spoon the size of her head which seemed not to phase her that much considering the mess she was in at this time.

“Told you she’s upset, I’m glad you all came as quickly” Spike mentioned as he bounced off the floor and tried to reach Twilight, only to hit a kind of barrier when he got close.

“So what happened to her?” Applejack asked, testing the quality of the floor only to yelp as it tried to assimilate her. She pulled her hoof, which sunk to about her fore ankle joint, out of the semi-solid floor to show that her coat was covered in purple and black patches. The fluid then retreated off her hoof, like water would off a freshly polished metal, and with the sound of water hitting a puddle it sunk back into the floor once more.

“She came back from Canterlot earlier today” Spike explained. “All I got out of her was ‘I cannot believe how stupid I was’ and ‘where’s the damned ice-cream, wait I’ll just conjure some’ before vanishing down here”

“Wonder why that was” Dash mentioned looking very concerned at the scene before her. “So what happened exactly?”

“She put on a pair of earrings that changed her into a Draconequus” Fluttershy explained quickly; taking flight and entering the chaos zone without any worry or self-preservation at all. Dash ‘tried’ to follow only to have a number of spheres rush at her violently that had appeared from the floor. Dash dodged out of the way of the first three only to misjudge the last one, get hit in the wing and crash into a far wall which turned into a hand that threw her back at the door. She was caught by Discords own chaos magic and lowered to the floor.

“Twilight, it’s me Fluttershy, do you want to talk?” Fluttershy asked as she hovered near Twilight. The response was for a shake of the head, visible to the ponies and Draconequus. “Did you want space?” Twilight nodded before Fluttershy flew back down to the safe area at the base of the stairs.

“So you going to let her simply walk over you like that!” Dash exclaimed, rubbing her now throbbing head from the impact

“She wants to be alone, so that what we will give her until she wants to speak about it” Fluttershy replied.

“We are her friends she needs to talk about this sooner or later!” Dash exclaimed.

“It will fester otherwise if she keeps quiet” Applejack mentioned, inputting her two cents into the conversation. Pinkie though was bouncing off the floor with cathartic glee, going so far as to do backflips and the like during the entire exchange from her friends.

“I wonder what she was told” Discord commented as the five ponies and Draconequus headed back upstairs. “She was a riot when we pranked the Princesses, though from what I heard, Shinning is still recovering from a rather long session with Cadence who spent an entire evening sleeping it off. Now she has gone moody like this”

“You pranked the Princesses?!” Fluttershy stated with shock before scolding him, “Discord you should know better-“

“-Not my idea, Twilights” Discord said going on the defensive, it was the truth though so Fluttershy nodded looking back at Twilight.

“I beg your pardon but you really expect us to believe that?” Applejack stated. “She has been a Draconequus for less than a day and you blame that on her-“

“-Actually Applejack it was my idea” Twilight said appearing behind them through her use of teleportation, she passed the resulting chocolate strawberries to Pinkie Pie. “Sorry, but I need a few moments to think and your right, if I don’t talk about it will fester”
“How did you hear me from the basement-“

“-Don’t ask that which you cannot comprehend” Twilight stated waggling her finger. “But in short, after I reversed the chocolate coat and robotisation of the princesses, they basically said that I need to be careful and a few other private matters”

“Awe but at least your still you” Pinkie said.

“That may be so, but for how long. I let the idea of letting chaos loose get to my head” Twilight stated. “It was nothing like magic before where I could control it. This is like if I wanted something to happen it just did on its own accord”

Twilight sighed as the girls just jumped her in a hug which she returned. After a few minutes of the group hug they broke off each sighing in relief that nothing was actually wrong.

“Well, let us know if you want anything or if you need to talk” Fluttershy commented. “You can always talk with us you know”
“Thanks and I know and will take you up on that” she said waving them off as they exited through the front door of the castle. She breathed a sigh of relief before looking at Discord. ‘You could have told me sooner you know”

“About?” Discord asked with caution as Twilight just glared at him.

“Oh I don’t know, about the whole ‘errant chaos’ or the fact that you are the only one of your kind at all. You are insufferable. Until I want to speak with you again, get out”

“but-“ he pleaded, his lips moving as though he was about to cry and Twilight wasn't buying it.

“Out now Discord” Twilight screamed loud enough for him to get the picture. He sighed before teleporting away. All that was left behind was a note. Twilight picked it up, stashed it on her desk before darting up to the basement to finish off the ice cream.

~0~0~

For the next two months, Routine was get up, test out a few chaos magic points, have lunch with Spike, test a few more things out then sleep. Rinse and repeated until she grew tired of the fact that she knew most if not all that she could from chaos magic over her normal unicorn magic.

She was now sitting casually on a cloud of semi hard fudge on the balcony of her new crystal home, but it floated a few inches off the floor reading a book on chaos theorems. She still hadn’t spoken to Discord at all and her friends came around once or twice a week, but he was never there. Her heart wanted to race around the floor as her mind thought of him.

Rolling off the cloud, which she drop punted it in the direction of Rainbow Dash’s house which would collide in around half a minute, before walking past her desk and noticing the note from Discord. Unrolling it out of interest as it had been then for nearing the two months she read it out loud for no other reason than she could.

‘Twilight. I wanted to apologise for everything. I should have warned you before about the earrings and the magic’s behind them. But as you know, chaos is a fickle thing. I know your upset but I wanted to say also that pranking the princess’ was a wonderful idea. One thing you should know is that you always had that streak, it was just hidden behind a façade that was your OCD mind.

I wanted only for you to understand what friendship really means to me, being the Princess of Friendship I hoped you wanted to jump at this chance to learn something new. Discord’

Her mind raced, he wanted only for her to learn about friendship and to be friendly about it, But then it was something else like why would he go to such lengths as to do this. Her mind was ablaze of thoughts but then she recalled all the times that discord had gotten involved in her life which made her pause.

She was the last of her friends to be corrupted by him during his first release when they first me. Then all the times he helped her specifically during the various points in the last two years, faking getting sick so she would bond more with Cadence, to when he literally marked out the pages which helped her defeated Tirek not too long ago. Be them coincidence or not, but he had a funny way of showing affection.

Then it was his expression when he admitted that he wished not to harm them, specifically Fluttershy, but the way he looked at her during his capture at the hands of Tirek that she realised the mistake she had made.

“Oh Celestia what have I done” she muttered as tears of chocolate hit the page. “Some friend I am, time to show him I’m sorry, but doing it his way” she continued putting the page down and giggling like a maniac which would make any evil villain giggle with glee. She then promptly snapped her dragon clawed hand and vanished in a shower of white powdery sugar.

~0~0~

Fluttershy had noticed that Discord the last few weeks had been in the dumps, literally and figuratively. He barely said anything at all of late but was still perky when pranks were mentioned but aside from that he would be all mopey and oddly enough to easy to control.

The pair were at this stage of the day sitting outside on one of the mounds that overlooked Ponyville. They watched as Dash seemed to be fighting with an off white coloured cloud only to be ‘absorbed’ by her fighting it. Ditzy ‘Derpy’ Doo seemed to be poking it comically as the limbs of Dash was hanging out at various angles.

“Wonder what cloud that is” Fluttershy mentioned as Ditzy was also stuck into the cloud mass.

“White taffy” Discord stated. “Unmistakably one of her little objects”

“You mean Twilight?” Fluttershy corrected trying to get some kind of emotion other than grump’s mc-grurt grunting in either anger or angst.

“Yes that is who I was speaking about” he said avoiding saying the name of the one who shot him down hard.

“Is something the matter?” Fluttershy asked. “You have been so- distant of late”

“I feel betrayed I guess, lonely and those sort of feelings” he replied.

“Twilight is feeling just as alienated as you are. More so even-“

Discord blinked a few times as Fluttershy stopped mid sentence. Sitting in front of him, appearing out of the blue, was a small grey box with small button like protrusions on each side. Each adorned with a small pink heart. Discord tapped the top to which it giggled before bouncing around comically. Fluttery was confused but couldn’t help but laugh from the infectious giggling it was doing.

It then stopped before folding out revealing a miniature water cannon which promptly squirted a light brown fluid into Discords hanging open mouth. He blinked a few times as laughter echoed nearby that he turned to see Twilight sitting in the tree laughing her head off, literally it bounced across the grass until it reached the base of the box.

“Oh man, I cannot believe that worked. Oh hey, uh my head has seemingly come off. Discord, can you help please” She pleaded from her new position at the base where the box once was.

“Why should I? I though you didn’t want to talk” he said pouting as Twilight rolled her eyes before her body appeared in front of him and picked her own head up and twisted it back on.

She then promptly grabbed him by the face, turned it around to meet hers and with a simple look said “I’m sorry for being a jerk to you. I realise now you wished only to let me understand more about you and I see that now” she let him go as Discord seemed to be confused and looked oddly at her. “I think what you said, combined with the princess’ and everything that transpired-“

“Oh my, if you two need to be alone-“

“-No” the pair replied hastily to which Fluttershy backed off and nodded.

“I suppose what I’m saying is that I’m willing now to give this a chance at working; so how about this, Once a week for the start, you come around to my house basement and you teach me to use chaos magic” Twilight stated flicking her tail into his casually. Discord tapped his chin to which Twilight was nervous.

“Okay then ‘Princess’ on one condition. One day a week as well, you and I do ‘Draconequus things’” Discord said, Twilight looked at him and sighed before nodding in agreement.

“Deal, so what do you mean by ‘Draconequus’ things?” Twilight asked using her claw and paw digits to use inverted air quotes. Discord simply smiled and with a cocky grin waggled his own in response.

“That my dear, you will need to find out for yourself” he said with a cheeky grin. Twilight moaned out in annoyance before sighing.
“So, what are you two doing out here anyway?” Twilight asked conjuring up a cloud of white taffy for her to lay on. She noticed that Fluttershy was pointing into the sky; now in the sky was a mangled mess of wings and twitching limbs consisting of Blue, Grey limbs with rainbow and sandy yellow coloured manes sticking out as a pair of mares, Flitter and Cloudchaser were both pondering the scenario before them. “Oh right”

“Twilight can you-“

“-I was just about to Fluttershy okay” Twilight said, snapping her Claws fingers the cloud vanished to a surprised Rainbow Dash and Ditzy Doo. The pair then flapped and untangled themselves much to the dismay of the two who had come to help.

A Chaotic Nightmare Night

Author's Note

Been a while I know. I had this sitting here waiting but I never loaded it up. the final chapter is being written but I don't like where it's going or how it got there. Also on the note of grammar which is always brought up, IRL Happens and whilst I get time to write it, editing takes longer and I can miss stuff.

Keeping this in the status of 'hiatus' as i'm not sure when/if i will get a chance to update this.

well - enjoy the new chapter and the carnage of Nightmare night.

A Chaotic Nightmare Night

Twilight’s crystal castle’s walls were, for a lack of a better term, the only thing stopping the shear amount of chaos magic from breeching its basements confines and flooding Equestria in pure unbridled chaos. The basement had been enlarged by use of a normal magical spell to be bigger on the inside than the out and thus allowed for the pair of draconequi to do chaos magic without the need of massive tracks of land.
Sitting neatly, on a cloud made entirely off pink cotton candy was Discord, the lord of chaos and teacher to the newer Draconequus Twilight. She had a scrunched up expression on her face and was trying to comprehend the complexity of the chaos magic.

“So, as I was saying before you decided to blow up my example in a shower of Tofu; Each Draconequus as a unique Chaos magic signature that makes them unique much like ponies. For the most part, mine is like your normal magic of being Jack of all trades, master of none” Discord explained. “You however cannot be that so your chaos magic, from what I can tell at this stage, is food related”

“Food?” Twilight said as her face went from a scowl to a confused one in a micro second. “So that’s why I’m leaving behind food stuffs when I teleport”

“I’m surprised you can even do that” Discord mentioned nonchalantly. Twilight scowled again before sighing and falling backwards into her signature taffy cloud. “You seem to grasp the basic principles of chaos magic easy enough, all you need to do now is well-“

“-Well what is it that I need to do?” Twilight asked stopping Discord in mid-sentence.

“Practice” Discord mentioned waving his paw around. “Simply put, practising your magic will allow you to judge what you can and cannot do”
“You seem to know an awful lot about magic Discord, you know more than you’re letting on” Twilight said accusingly. Discord smiled and placed a paw over his chest.

“Guilty as charged; After all having a few years of reigning before Celestia and Luna as well as more years before that still, I know a thing or two about chaos magic” he said nonchalantly whilst waving his hand. “Now then, anything else you need to know my dear?”

Twilight shook her head at the comment as her brain refused to take on more information. That entire morning Discord, though in a costume that made him look like Albert Einstein, had basically gave her the basic principles of chaos magic. it was remarkable that it was so simular to her normal magic but at the same time it was so strange and foreign, like going to a restaurant you know and love in a different country only to find it serves your normal food but with rice instead of chips. It wasn’t until she thought about it that it all started to make a sort of sense in a weird roundabout route. “I have no further questions for you at this time Discord. So I guess that’s it for today”

“Excellent, now then time for some fun” Discord said happily as he flashed to an alternate part of the room. “Now then my dear Twilight, whilst we have lunch, I want to hear everything that the princess’ had to say about your new form.” He conjured up a plate of sandwiches to which Twilight rolled her eyes. She flumped back into her own cloud.

“What’s there to say, they basically told me to be careful about the chaos magic that’s all; Oh and that if I remain like this they will not hold it against me” Twilight said, summoning up her own sandwiches, a combination of cheese, capsicum, mayonnaise and cucumber. Taking one in her dragon claw she bit into it and near swallowed it whole.

“I see, so they didn’t mention anything else?” he asked, Twilight could tell straight up Discord was prying for more information but decided to play along with his games, after all two are needed to play a game of wits.

“Nope, that’s it” she lied just as fast to cover it up.

“That’s it? Seriously now; do they not realise the sheer complexity of this issue!” he snarled. Twilight was taken aback by the sudden shift in character. She was confused as he sighed. “A Draconequus is a being of pure chaos, one does not simply wave that off like Celestia’s cake fantasies or Luna’s addiction to modern day gaming.”

“How has that got anything to do with them not telling me anything?” Twilight asked. Discord smiled before leaning into his hands.
“Draconequus are innately drawn to chaos magic, to not use it would be like a Pegasus refusing to fly or a Unicorn that cannot cast magic. To refuse to do so is to refuse the nature of them to begin with” Discord explained. Twilight seemed to be interested to say the least. “Hence why you had your little, Chaos stint with the princess’s a few months back”

“Okay so how does one stay on top of it?”

“Simple” Discord said, snapping his fingers changing the room to that of a war room like set up with a massive map of ponyville in the centre. “You do little things of chaos magic such as pranks etc., the larger the chaos that ensues the better the results. Though be warned about this. Too much chaos and well, you go a touch looney or it spirals out of control and you lose your mind.”

“Looney?”

“Well look at the supposed ‘King Sombra’, he used Chaos magic and went insane, as did I actually too but that’s beside the point”
“So if I don’t use chaos magic, I go nuts. If I use too much I go nuts. So either way I’m going to go nuts?”

“Not necessarily, like I said. Chaos has a fine line that we must walk. Alas, such is the nature and base desires of a Draconequus” he mentioned, snapping his fingers the room change to be a tiled pattern of purple and a deep yellow with a red star in the middle. He looked over at Twilight before appearing to her side. “Now then, I best be off as I have a lunch date with dear old Fluttershy, Ta-ta for now”

Twilight would strangle the Draconequus if she could but reached into thin air before moaning in annoyance. Rolling her eyes she pondered what Discord had said for well over an hour before snapping her fingers to change the room back. Nothing happened, so she tried four more times before a doll of Discord appeared.

“Also, chaos magic is unaffected by other chaos magic so if you were to do something I cannot revert it back and vice versa ta-ta”
Twilight gritted her teeth once more before letting out a cry of anger and storming off to her study, a storm cloud hanging above her head dropping drops of cream on her head as she went.

A few days passed once more only to bring it to the night of Nightmare Moon, or Nightmare Night as it’s known across the land of Equestria, and it was Spike who was begging Twilight to do something rather rash for the night. She had enough now and was on the verge of blowing something up with Chaos magic.

“For the last time Spike I said no! I’m not about to do this for you so you can woo Rarity, not going to happen” she snapped back as the Dragon rolled his eyes.

“But-“

“I said no, now I’m expecting her to arrive later today anyway so be off with you, take the day off or something” Twilight said waving her white lion hand about.

“Fine I will!” Spike shouted slamming the door to her study. Twilight yelped as she realised that her tail had been caught in the door frame and was now throbbing in pain. She had not told Spike of her plan along with Rarity so it was supposed to be a surprise for him alone.
A knock at the front door broke her out of the book she was reading and with a snap she teleported to the front door where Rarity was waiting for her.

“I saw Spiky Wikey run off in a hurry, I hope he hasn’t been too much of a handful” Rarity asked, Twilight nodded before letting her friend walk past her. “Oh dear I hope it’s not a problem”

“I told him no. get this, he wants me to use my magic to change him into a pony for Nightmare Night” Twilight said as Rarity chuckled in response to the baby dragons antics.

“Isn’t that what you’re going to do with me now?” Rarity chided to which Twilight sighed.

“Well, yes, but a Pony is different to a spell resistant dragon like Spike” Twilight mentioned before looking at Rarity. “Now are you sure about this, I don’t even know if this will work”

“Twilight, Just do it before I need to rebuild the courage to do this again” Rarity said, she saw Twilight nod before she heard a snap of the dragon claw then nothing.

Twilight was freaking out now as Rarity’s eyes fluttered open. “Buck, Buck, Buck why was I so stupid to accept this, Celestia is going to imprison me in stone for this!”

“Twilight what are you- What happened to my voice?” Rarity asked as her voice sounded off to her. She saw the Draconequus floating around in circles above her before stopping when she heard her voice.

“Rarity, you’re okay, oh thank Celestia” Twilight said steadying her breathing to a point when she wasn’t hyperventilating. “Don’t worry I can fix this”

“What happened?” she asked trying to move, as she did she slammed into the crystal floor and caught a reflection. Staring back at her was not the Unicorn face she was accustomed but something else entirely. A subtly older, but no less intimidating, face of a teenage dragoness. She looked down at her fore hooves and then at Twilight. She mouthed the word ‘Dragon’ over and over before passing out once more and with a solid thwack landed on the floor once more, head bouncing off the coffee table leaving a massive dent in the crystal, if that was possible.
Twilight proceeded to panic further until she got another look at Rarity. Silvery white scales with deep purple ear fins akin to Spikes but instead of them being pointed upright they were pointing down. A pair of wings adorned her back to the natural size of a Dragon of her age in comparison to dragon’s years.

“Oh my, when I said ‘Let loose’ I didn’t mean turn a friend into a dragon” Discords voice chided as Twilight spun to see him standing there with Fluttershy in tow. The Pegasus had a saddle bag on her back ready with her attire for the evening ahead. “But kudos to you Twilight, though I wonder if slamming her head on the table was a good thing”

“That- D-d-dragon is Rarity?” Fluttershy stammered getting a good look at the ‘Teenager’ dragon. “Oh my I do hope she is okay?”

“Well she just passed out and hit her head on the table” Twilight mentioned showing that the coffee table had a massive dent in the crystal the size of Rarity’s new head in the table. for some reason though, Rarity was unharmed from the impact, aside from some crystal dust on her forehead. “But I had to keep it from Spike as he- well he wanted to be a pony this year”

Discord clapped his hands before snapping his fingers causing a confused Spike to appear before him. “I had to”

“Discord, put me back now” Spike said waving his fists at Discord to who looked at him with a serious expression plastered on his face.

“No, Twilight here has something she needs to say” Discord said with a little bit more of a serious tone. “Don’t you my dear?”

“Fine, Spike, listen the reason why I won’t turn you into a pony is-“

“-my head is killing me, Twilight why did you not warn me” Rarity called out from the couch. Spike looked over a white head emerged from over the back. “Spike, well this is most certainly an-“

“-Rarity?”

“Of course darling, we wanted to surprise you for tonight with this” Rarity explained as she walked out on unsteady legs.

“Rarity, you became a dragon willingly?” Fluttershy meeped as Discord let Spike go. He then crossed his arms.

“Well this isn’t going to work now is it, allow me” Discord commented looking at how Spike was shorter by a good head when compared to the dragoness Rarity.

“Discord what are you-“Twilight called out as he snapped his own claw. A flash of light later and instead of looking down at Spikes eyes, Rarity was staring at a chest this time, of emerald green.

“What did you do to- My voice dear Celestia what just happened?” Spike asked looking at his slightly larger claws.
“I cannot allow for a child to ‘Date’ an older lady so for tonight I have corrected it” Discord mentioned.

“You could have warned me about this” Spike snarled back as Discord smirked. “Huh, wings, that’s new. Uh Rarity are you okay there? Because my face is now up here and those are my- whoa Discord what did you do?”

Rarity’s embarrassment was showing behind her new coat of white scales as a soft red. An Apt thing to do when you’re looking at the teenage version of Spike who looked as though he had been to a gym at least 3 times a week. “Well I must say, shall we enjoy this? “

“Uh Rarity, this is awkward” Spike said rubbing the back of his head blushing hard. Twilight had to stifle a laugh with Discord grinning from ear to ear at the situation at hand.

“Well I think we should leave the pair to their own devices. Twilight, perchance are you free for this evening? Seeing as it’s the night of scares I think –“

“-Discord are you asking me out?” Twilight asked genuinely shocked at the idea of him asking over her more than anything. The Draconequus looked at her firm expression before nodding sheepishly like some child being told off. “Sure, most Nightmare Nights I spend indoors anyway after walking around the town and it will be a good test of chaos magic”

Discord smiled, it was going to be pure chaos that’s for certain tonight.

Twilight and Discord kept to the skies of Ponyville observing the area for any forms of screams they could come up with as Luna’s moon crested the horizon signalling for the festivities to begin. The pair seemed to be more interested in observing where they could cause chaos than actually partaking in the night’s activities. Though they both watched Spike and Rarity catch the eyes of most the town folk and decided to stalk them for fun.

Said dragon’s was now waiting at the Apple bobbing station with Applejack and Big Mac dressed up as Vam-ponies.

“Uh Spike is that you?” Applejack asked as the now teenage dragon nodded walking up to the stall. The apple bob stall she was attending to was currently being re-stocked of apples after they all suddenly became wedges of cheese to a laughing Twilight and Discord. “And, whoa nelly who in tarnation is that?”

“Applejack is that anyway to talk to a lady dragon?” Rarity said twirling as she did to show off her form, going so far as to make Spike even more embarrassed than what he already was.

“Rarity, how in tarnation-“ Applejack asked as a pair of voices laughing out loud enough for her to see the white and pink clouds above them.

“-Ah’l right, Twi did you do this?”

“Rarity’s idea not mine” Twilight said leaning over the cloud’s edge. “Besides, what’s the harm in it?”

“Harm, she’s now a Dragon for Celestia’s sake” Applejack said firmly. “That’s like-“

“Relax, I only did it for tonight alone so nothing wrong with it” Twilight said. “And Spike is enjoying it aren’t you”

“Thanks for the embarrassing moment ‘mom’” He muttered in annoyance to which Rarity grabbed his arm and yanked it hard. The resulting yank caused him to loose balance for a moment to which Rarity used the opportunity to drag him away from them all, tail entwining with his causing more embarrassment.

“Awe, young dragon love” Discord mentioned as Twilight smirked as to his comment. “It’s adorable, the females, I have you know, are much more ‘vicious’ than the male during that age.”

“So long as it’s only tonight then we will be fine” Applejack said, she then noticed how Twilight had absent minded tied her tail to discords. “And what about you two huh? Hanging out like that some would think your dating.”

“My dear Applejack, nothing seems to escape your perceptive eye. I simply asked Twilight out, is that so much to ask, or do I need your approval to ask her out. Last I checked her mother was in Canterlot” Discord mentioned seeing that the farm pony’s normal demeanour was still there. He made a mental note to break it

“Ah still don’t trust yah after that little incident with Tirek” Applejack stated harshly.

“I was misguided is all” Discord said solemnly. Twilight rolled her eyes as he sniggered before rolling over in the cloud. “Now then, perhaps some more chaos is needed elsewhere, we have already caused enough chaos here”

“You, ah should have guessed the cheese was your idea Discord”

“Did you actually taste the cheese?” Twilight asked, Big Mac looked at the wedges and bit one. “See, Apple flavoured Cheese, thought it was a bit different to apple bobbing. Apple bobbing with cheese that tastes of apples”

“How in tarnation did you manage that one?” Applejack asked astonished as she tried the last part offered to her from big Macintosh. “Actually forget I asked”

“Chaos magic my friend AJ” Twilight mentioned waggling her finger. The pair then teleported away leaving the clouds to sit above the pair.
“AH swear, if those two are hooking up then I’m going to take Pinkie up on chaos insurance” Applejack mentioned to her brother. The stallion nodded in agreement muttering only.

“Eeyup”

“A most frightening of night when you are near, my friend Twilight” Zecora stated, her attire the same from the previous years of a witch pony.

“Though I am confused as to why your costume is so real and Discord with you”

“Well, this isn’t a costume Zecora, I’m stuck like this for another what, two and a half months?” Twilight mentioned as she conversed with the zebra who smiled.

“It matters not what the book looks like, but it’s the contents it contains that matter the most”

“You dropped the rhyming it would seem” Twilight mentioned to which the Zebra chuckled.

“That I most certainly did, for even I find it most tiering when it comes to rhyming” the Zebra said. “If I may enquire, how did this in turn transpired?”

“Earrings apparently made by Discord” Twilight mentioned as the pair watched said Draconequus strut around causing laughter from the Fillies nearby. It was at this point a sharp twang in her head caused her to wince out in pain. The pain continued until something snapped in her head, Discord looked over and noticed that she was clutching her head in pain.

“Oh Sun flank” he cursed. Summoning up a megaphone he tapped it a few times earning the attention of all around him. “Attention residents of ponyville, I would recommend you all duck for cover as we are about to have a massive surge of-“

He never finished the sentence as Twilight screamed out in pain before casting out a massive wave of chaos magic that increased in size until stopping at the borders of ponyville. Without any hesitation for his own self, he teleported to Twilights side, grabbed her and her head before she collapsed and opened one of her now tightly shut eyes, the pupil was looking up as though she had fainted. Glancing around the ponies all seemed confused as to what was going on that was until Scootaloo, who was dressed as a wolf, suddenly used her back leg to scratch her ear like a dog would.

“Discord if you would please, Explain to me what just happened to keep me at ease” Zecora said as he noticed that Twilight was out cold.
“Uh Scootaloo why are you scratching your ear like Winona would?” Applebloom asked as Scootaloo shrugged.

“This is seriously bad” Discord muttered. Rainbow Dash, clad in a near perfect version of the Shadow bolts attire landed next to the pair of Draconequus.

“Uh Discord what just happened?” Dash asked removing her purple tinted goggles. Behind her a pair of shadows seemed to manifest into three pegasai, each clad in the shadow bolts attire bowing to her. “Uh, explanation now please”

Applejack was next to appear, Fangs visible over her bottom lip, cape draped over her flank and coat a lighter shade than normal but her eyes were ruby red like an apple skin. Following her though was Fluttershy; She was basically how she was during the Vampire Fruit bat issue last year, but wasn’t a rapid animal and semi composed. “Okay so what in tarnation was that and owe-“Applejack said rubbing her now bleeding lip. “Did ah just bite my lip?”

“Hrm, interesting” Discord said tapping his chin when the screams of panic came from a pinkie Pie source. Said Mare was running around, her head detached from the neck down. “Oh dear”

“Discord did you do this?” Fluttershy asked curiously.

“My vampire bat Fluttershy I assure you it was not Discord but Twilight who has changed us all” Zecora mentioned as she looked around. “And for our costumes are now reality, if you give me five minutes I can wake her up with my special brew”

“Please do as soon as you’re able” Fluttershy said looking around as more ponies became their costumes they were wearing for that night.

“Now it would seem she has reawakened” Zecora said as Twilight blinked a few times, her head pounding. “Try and take it easy, fainting like that had us all on the edge”

“What- I feel like a hammer just slammed into my head, from all directions” Twilight stated as she heard a collective sigh of relief from the gather ponies, dragons and lone Draconequus. “What happened?”

“Discord?” Spike asked, his voice still in the deeper octave of being a teenager. “Can you explain?”

“Well, basically, you know how unicorn foals have outbursts of uncontrollable magic?” Discord asked summoning up a set of paper cut outs that looked like the element bearers. “Usually they can be brought out of it by a parent or guardian”

“And this is what precisely- Buck it!” Applejack swore again, “buck these teeth!”

“That is very un-lady like you Applejack” Rarity said.

“Bite me” Applejack snarled. “At least you don’t have to worry about fangs- Buck!”

“Girls please, cease this please” Fluttershy said. The Dragon Rarity and Applejack Vampire continued to argue for another few moments until Fluttershy let loose a high pitched screech to stop the pair. “Thankyou. Now then Discord please continue to explain”

“Well, same applies here. Twilight here had a little chaos magic outburst. Normally the parent would remove the ill effects with their own but in this case-“

“-Chaos magic can only be removed by the one casting it” Twilight finished.

“Correct again, we should run a game show” Discord said as Twilight attempted to move. Her body simply refused to move at all. “But another thing. You used up nearly all of your magic in one shot so you need to recover”

“And what about us, or the rest of the ponies affected around town, as much as I like being the headless pony, I would like to return to normal. But this still has it perks. Imagine my head sitting on a cake of my body, now there’s an idea” Pinkie asked, her head was resting on the still dented coffee table whilst her body did other things comically mind you.

“Alas, as much as that’s morbid and curious; the correction will need to wait until she is recovered fully from this discharge” Discord said,

“But I can-“

“-no” Discord snapped out of character, startling the ponies, “no buts on this one my dear. Chaos magic is not to be trifled with when you are exhausted like this, they can and will wait or the consequences will be direr than a form change for a few days. You will be resting for the next few days won’t you?”

Twilight looked at her friends then at discord before shaking her head. “No, I need to fix this” she said, Discord was about to go off again when he heard the snapping of lions paws, but nothing happened. The snapping happened a few times more as Twilight looked confused. “What’s going on?”

“Oh that’s simple. I blocked your magic, until such time as you’re fully recovered I won’t remove it” Discord said crossing his arms.

“What, remove it now” twilight demanded.

“I wont-“ he said crossing his arms in refusal.

“Discord remove it now”

“No I won’t” he said firmly back at the still weakened Twilight.

“Discord now”

“I won’t because If I do I will lose you and I cannot allow that to happen” The room went silent as they then noticed the one thing Discord would never do, only one other had seem him in this state and that was sun butt Celestia. They were about to ask why when he snapped his fingers and vanished from the room.

“Spike send a message to Celestia now, explain everything to her” Twilight said getting up slowly only to collapse once more into the fore hooves of a pair of ‘shadow bolts’. “Uh who are these two?”

“My flying team apparently. Take her to her room guys”

“Sure thing captain” the pair said in unison hoisting the weakened twilight up by the arms and hefting her to the upper floors where her room was located.