Chapters From the outside, the stone imprisonment of the Spirit of Disharmony serves as proof of what the power of friendship could do to everything that could threaten the harmony that existed in Equestria. It was the Elements of Harmony that sealed the god of chaos to his fate once again. But on the inside, a furious battle raged as the spirit tried his best to breach the stone walls around him. He was focusing all of his energy to his talons in a desperate attempt to shatter the stone and set himself free once again.
Six short years had passed since his last escape. Everything was working perfectly. His beautiful destruction was near unstoppable until those wretched Elements sealed him away again. The pain of turning to stone was still fresh in his twisted mind. There’s no words to describe the pain as your internal organs slow down and is turned to cold stone in a painfully slow process. When he was free, the Elements would feel the same pain that he had experienced twice. His energy had been slowly returning to him over the years in his prison and it was nearly time to break free and spread the beauty of destruction once more.
He was going to crack the stone and teleport away, or that was how he thought he would get away. He never gave a thought to the protective spell that was thrown in to prevent any breaches from the inside. With a loud crack, his lion paw was free. He channeled his energy to it and felt the stone around his arm was starting to crack and give away. He had finally channeled enough energy. As he focused on a distant location, the protective spell was starting to attack him. It tried to kill the energy that was building up inside him. A loud grunt escaped as he had to double his effort to teleport away. The protective spell was far from forgiving. One mistake and all his work would be fruitless. He noticed a flaw in the spell, he could bypass it by pushing some of his energy through it. That way the protective spell would go after that stray energy and in that moment of weakness, he could make his escape.
It worked, but just before he teleported away, a sharp pain struck his head, making his body numb. He didn’t waste any time and disappeared in a bright flash. As soon as he could feel contact with the ground beneath him after his escape, he collapsed and writhed in pain. What was happening to him? The thought rushed through him. It felt like his insides were twisting, stretching and tearing apart at the same time. The same pain echoed through his limbs. His horns felt like they were about to break off at the base in any moment. It felt like his eyes were being carved out right from his skull. But the worst pain of them all originated from his head. It was a massive headache, it felt like his brain was thumping, trying to break its way out of his skull. He screamed as he clutched his head with his talons. His eyes were screwed shut. After what felt like an eternity, he passed out from the pain. His ancient body couldn’t take it anymore and gave in under the pressure. He wasn’t dead or dying, fate was just never very fair with him.
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It was the morning after his escape, he cracked one eye open and was instantly blinded by the sun.
‘Ughh... Note to self, make sun darker’ He groaned as he rubbed his eyes with his hoof. Wait, hoof? His mouth hung open as he saw that the arm that once was his eagle talon was now a leg with a pony’s hoof. The same was with his other arm and his legs. His coat was the same goldish grey that his head and neck had used to be. After further inspection he had found out that he still had wings, but the tips of the new feathers on each wing were a different colour. The same colors that his old wings used to have. He also had a horn, but he couldn’t see it. He looked around to see that he had teleported to some kind of clearing with a small stream running across it. He walked unsteadily to the stream and drank some water. When he lifted his head, the water was clear enough so that he could see his own reflection.
‘Lookin’ goooood...’ Discord said as he turned his head around and inspected it from all angles. The yellow in his eyes were gone, but the pupils were still crimson. His snaggletooth was gone and replaced by a slightly sharpened tooth in its place. His mane was almost black, with a silver white streak close to his left ear. His horn seemed like it was a normal unicorn horn, but it was cyan and white. The same colours that his old horns had. His new body didn’t look old or torn by time, it looked like it was the same age as that Element of Magic, Twilight Sparkle.
He tried to use his magic, but all he recieved was a headache. ’The unexpected transformation must have drained my powers again’, he thought. ’Oh well, it will replenish soon enough but until then, I can have some fun on my own.’ He stretched his newly acquired wings, gave them a few flaps for practice and took off at a slow pace.
‘Princess!’ A unicorn guard shouted as he ran through the throne room, gaining surprised looks from everypony inside, including the royal sisters. ‘Princess.’ He bowed to the princesses in front of him. Celestia stood up and walked down to him.
‘What is it? Has something happened?’ Celestia asked as she trotted the last distance to him.
‘The royal... gardens...’ He tried his best to catch his breath when he talked to one of the rulers of Equestria.
‘What has happened within the gardens?’ Celestia realised that this could be something big, and she feared one particular answer.
’D-Discord has escaped again.’ The guard said, he had maintained his composure, but the fear was visible in his eyes. A collective gasp echoed through the massive hall, everypony knew what that demon was capable of.
It was the answer that Celestia feared. Her jaw tried to drop, but she managed to prevent it. ‘Alert the guards, all divisions must be ready to act at any given point. Go!’ Celestia said in an authorative tone. This was serious. Who knew what Discord would do this time? With a quick ‘Yes ma’am.’ The guard ran out like he did before, only focused to complete his task.
Discord was lying on a cloud and stretched his back while yawning. He had been napping during the situation in Canterlot and a few hours before that.
'‘Now I’m sure why those pegasi have cloud-beds and homes...’' He said in a satisfactory tone. His powers hadn’t quite replenished yet, so the former draconequus was just lying around and doing nothing. His thoughts wandered to the the Elements of Harmony. With his new form, he could easily sneak into the town and spy on them and when his powers were restored, he could launch a sneak attack against them. He stood up on the cloud and jumped off it, heading straight for Ponyville.
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A Lesson In Pegasus Anatomy
Discord was gliding through the air, he had missed the feeling of the wind going through his old wings but the feeling was much more intense with these new pegasi wings. He still couldn’t use his magic but he couldn’t care less at that moment. It wouldn’t be much longer until he could see the first buildings that was the town of Ponyville. He started to descend so he would land outside of the town and walk inside, careful not to start any commotion within the town. On the ground when he was walking towards the town he realised that him being an alicorn could bring attention to him.
Inside the town, he snuck past a few buildings while on the lookout for the Elements. Fortunately for him, he couldn’t see any of them. It didn’t take long until he arrived at a marketplace packed with a wide variety of stalls. But there was one in particular that he was focused on. A stall selling curtains and other fabrics. The pony handling the stall walked away for a while, probably to get more fabric to sell. Discord quietly sidled up to the stall and grabbed a curtain that was dark red in colour. He tucked it beneath his left wing and trotted off. Nopony had seen him.
Outside the town, he dropped the fabric on the ground and looked at it.
’‘What now?’’ He thought, staring at the fabric. He needed some kind of cloak to hide his wings but he couldn’t just walk up to that dressmaker Rarity and say ’‘Hello, nice to meet you. Listen I need you to make a cloak that will hide my wings and not raise suspicion amongst the townsponies.’’ That would be a stupid thing to do, especially when that Rarity is the Element of Generosity. He could possibly use a simple spell to alter the fabrics’ shape and size and mold it into a cloak. It wouldn’t take much energy, so he decided to give it a shot.
He pulled up the fabric off the ground and laid it across his back. He reached out with his magic, feeling every strand in the fabric. A small portion of his magic was sent into it and after a few minutes, it flashed and was now a modest cloak draped around him.
Satisfied with his work, he walked back into town but this time, he wasn’t sneaking around or hiding. While walking through the market, he showed some fake interest in some of the stalls instead of running straight to the Elements and exposing his cover. What happened next made him facehoof. His stomach rumbled, he hadn’t eaten anything after his escape and that was two whole days ago. He knew that he didn’t have any bits to buy food, so he had to use some techniques from when he was young.
He walked towards a teal unicorn mare with saddlebags. She wasn’t looking where she was going so she would be perfect for it. Discord walked into her, and as soon as she touched him he expanded his magic around him and her, he quickly scanned through her saddlebags and found her bag with bits. He grabbed five bits with his magic and teleported them into a small pocket on his cloak and cancelled his magic as soon as he felt the bits in his pocket. The mare had fallen onto her haunches. He reached a hoof to her and helped her stand up, it was the least he could do at that moment.
‘‘Sorry about that... I wasn’t really looking where I was going a-’’ Discord raised his hoof to her to get her to stop talking.
’‘Don’t mention it, no harm was done. I’m built out of some stern stuff so nothing happened to me.’’ A crooked smile embraced his features as he walked away. He had noticed that his voice wasn’t as deep as it was in his older form. It was probably because this body was younger than his old one. He walked past her and walked towards the food stalls, satisfied with the result of his harvest. ’‘Four thousand years and I still got it.’’ Discord thought to himself and chuckled.
On his way to buy food, he saw somepony he will never forget. He growled a little to himself when he saw her standing behind her apple stand. It was Applejack, that Element of Honesty. But apples... apples would be good. He walked up to the stall and Applejack spotted him. She smiled a little as he came closer, not knowing that the Spirit of Disharmony was coming straight for her.
’‘Howdy, what can Ah do fer ya today, sir?’’ Applejack said as she tipped her hat back. Discord had to fight back the urge to grab her and turn her to stone just at that very moment.
‘’Hello there, how much for three apples?’’ Discord asked, trying to hide his hate.
’‘Three apples is five bits, but Ah haven’t seen ya ‘round these parts before so ye can have th’ apples for four.’’ She said as she turned slightly and leaned towards the counter.
’‘How generous of you, then I’ll take those apples then.’’ He was almost a little surprised by the generosity of the orange mare.
Applejack reached for a few apples behind the counter, but the basket was empty. ’’Aw schucks...’’ She walked back to her cart and leaned forward while grabbing another basket. Discord nearly choked when she leaned forward and he was forced to experience a very embarassing part of the pegasi anatomy, wingboners. His wings shot open and a small blush spread across his face. He tried to force his wings down but it was easier said than done. To his horror, Applejack had the basket on her back and was about to turn around and walk to him. He tried desperately to think of something to do at that moment. But just before his horrors were confirmed, he was able to snap his wings down to his body just before Applejack turned around and walked to him again. He let out a deep sigh of relief and put on a stupid grin.
’’Ya must really like apples, don’cha?’’ Applejack chuckled as she looked at the stallion smiling while looking at the basket in relief.
‘You have no idea...’ Discord said as he composed himself and levitated four bits from his pocket and took the apples and levitated two to his pocket and one to eat on the go. He said his goodbyes and kept on walking. ’‘THAT was close...’’ He thought with his mouth full of apples. ’‘Damn this pegasus anatomy...’ He said under his breath as he continued walking through the town in a casual pace.
He reached what looked like some kind of gingerbread house. ’‘Sugarcube Corner’’ the sign said. ’‘Isn’t this where that Element of Laughter works? Oh well, one way to find out.’’ He started walking towards the strange building and ’bumped’ into another pony on the way.
’‘What could possibly go wrong with the Element of Laughter?’’ He thought as he opened the door.
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As soon as Discord had opened the door, a cupcake flew past his face and crashed into the wall beside him. He gulped and wondered what he had gotten himself into, but there was no backing out now. He approached the counter where a cyan earth pony mare with a red and pink mane was peeking into the kitchen with a look of absolute terror on her face. There was a horrible ruckus coming from the kitchen and a loud crash and what sounded like a chainsaw followed. The mare by the desk cringed and looked away and noticed him.
’’Oh hello dearie, sorry about the noise. Our employee Pinkie Pie is trying out a new recipe she thought of yesterday.’’ She said in a cheery tone and smiled.
’‘With... Chainsaws?’’ He said slowly with a hint of confusion.
’‘Don’t. Ask.’’ She said in a stern tone that almost made him stand at attention. She softened up after a while. ’‘Now, what can get for you today? I haven’t seen you in town befo-’’ Another loud crash rocked the building, but this time a pink rocket shot out from the kitchen.
’‘YOUHAVEN’TSEENWHOHEREBEFOREOHMYGOSHWHOISIT?!’’ The pink rocket, now that he could see, was Pinkie Pie standing by the mare and bouncing manically. A painfully large grin spread across her face. He had to wonder how it was possible for anypony to smile that wide. He felt like he had to run for his life, and for the last remnants of his sanity. But before Discord could react, it was too late. ‘OHHH HI, MY NAME IS PINKIE PIE AND I HAVEN’TSEENYOUINTOWNBEFORESOTHATMUSTBETHATYOU’REKNEWANDIKNOWEVERYPONYINTOWNOHANDIALSOKNOWSOMEDONKEYSANDTHAT’SAFUNNYSTORYYOUSE- A light blue hoof stopped the hyper pony’s rambling. Discord silently thanked the chubby mare for doing so.
’‘Now Pinkie, what have I told you about randomly shouting at strangers?’’ She asked Pinkie in a motherly tone as she removed the hoof from her mouth.
’’To not do it...’’ Pinkie sighed.
’‘Good. Now you can keep talking, just don’t get too excited, okay?’’ She looked straight into the party pony’s eyes.
’‘Okay!’’ Pinkie chirped as she started bouncing around the room, momentarily forgetting about Discord. She suddenly stopped in mid-air and dropped to the ground. She then turned to Discord and bounced around him in a circle. ’’Hi! I’m Pinkie Pie! But I already said that and I haven’t asked for your name yet, and that’s rude but I’m actually not rude so what ’s your name?’’ She stopped right in front of him and grinned at him. He mentally facehoofed for not thinking of a new name. He started thinking frantically for a new name.
He couldn’t use Discord, Chaos would be too obvious. He closed his eyes and thought for a while. Spirit... Spirit would be a good name... Now what was Spirit in ancient Equestrian? Pha.. Spiritus... Phasmatis, yes that was it. ’’My name is Phasmatis.’’ He simply said and thanked himself for being a quick thinker in moments like these.
’‘Phash-Matish...’’ Pinkie looked confused. A sheepish grin spread across her face. ’‘What was it again?’’
Discord sighed and rubbed a hoof to her forehead. ’’My name is Phasmatis. It means spirit in ancient Equestrian.’’
’‘OHHH...’’ Pinkie said as she nodded slightly. ’‘That’s a cool name...’’
’‘You don’t get it, do you?’’ Discord asked in a serious tone and his eyes half-closed.
’’No...’’ Pinkie said as she sat down.
A loud smack echoed through the town and made a few ponies stare at the Sugarcube Corner in confusion. Discord had facehoofed so hard that it made an audible smack.
’‘Sorry. It’s just that you have such a weird name, Phasmatis!’’ Discord was surprised that she actually got it right for once. She gasped that sounded like she had seen somepony steal candy from a little filly. Another creepily huge grin made its way across her face. Discord took a cautious step back from the display. ’’OH MY GOSH I SHOULD TOTALLY MAKE A WELCOME-TO-PONYVILLE-AND-SORRY-FOR-MESSING-UP-YOUR-NAME-THREE-TIMES-PARTY!’’ She squealed in anticipation. Discord had no idea how she managed to say that with just one breath. And a party could blow his cover very easily.
’’No Pinkie, please. No parties. I came here to calm down after a few very hard years. I’m very sensitive about such things.’’ He raised a hoof to her so she would calm down. He swore that he could hear glass shatter as her smile faded and it looked like her hair was about to deflate but she perked up almost instantly after.
’‘Oh well, but the same happened with a donkey that moved here a couple of years ago, but I got on his good side!’’ She bounced around the room again. ’’...Eventually.’’ She said so he wouldn’t hear.
’’I was only coming in here to buy a cupcake, so if you don’t mind.’’ He walked around the pink mini tornado and picked a cupcake from the counter. Mrs. Cake glanced back to Pinkie. She didn’t have a care in the world. As she gave him the cupcake Mrs. Cake mouthed ’‘Sorry’’. Discord just shaked his hoof dismissively and walked outside. He ate the cupcake in one big bite and trotted off, thanking higher deities that he was able to escape his sugar-filled doom.
’‘Any progress in finding anything about his whereabouts?’’ Celestia asked impatiently.
’’No ma’am.’’ A unicorn guard of higher ranks answered. ’’We’ve had no success in scrying him or any eyewitness reports. We haven’t been able to sense his energy anywhere in Equestria.’’ He said with a sigh.
‘‘This doesn’t make any sense!’’ Luna slammed her right hoof on the table.
’‘Dear sister, since when does Discord make sense?’’ Celestia asked her angry sister.
’’He never does, but it is so unlike him to leave without making a scene right after.’’ Luna tapped a hoof to her head. ’’I don’t like this at all..’’
’‘Neither do I, but we must keep a straight face. News of his escape would wreak chaos even if he hasn’t shown himself yet.’’ Luna said as she walked up to her sister and placed a comforting hoof on her arm.
’‘Right, keep searching. Report any findings to me immediately.’’ She said to the unicorn guard who simply nodded.
’‘Yes ma’am.’’ He dissappeared in a bright flash.
Discord was once again napping outside of town. He was lying next to a tree by the shadows. The calm of the town had made him sleepy again. This was much better than being a cold, hard statue not being able to stretch his legs. He was enyoing his new form very much and rolled onto his back. Sure, it was weird not being to grab things with his hands but levitating things was much more practical anyways. He could carry many more things that way. The cloak he’d made wasn’t that bad either. He opened his eyes slowly and sat up. He yawned as he rubbed his eyes and levitated an apple from his cloak. He noticed now that the aura around the apple was crimson. He shrugged and took a bite. The juices from the sweet fruit trickled down his cheek. He wiped it off with his hoof.
After he had eaten one apple he stood up and stretched his back. A soft squeal caught his attention, he looked to the left to see a butteryellow pegasus with a pink mane back away from him, fear stricken across her face. Discord immediately feared that his cover had been blown, but as the pegasus that he know reminded as Fluttershy, the element of kindness stood back up. She wasn’t scared, just nervous. He let out a sigh of relief.
’’My name is Phasmatis.’’ It felt weird to call himself by another name, but he had no choice. He recieved another squeal as an answer. He rolled his eyes, this was going to take a while.
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Discord looked down at Fluttershy. She had backed away further from him. He knew that she hadn’t figured out who he really was, if she had, she would’ve flown away to Twilight Sparkle immediately or freeze in fear. The latter was probably what she would have done.
’‘What’s your name?’’ He asked. Discord already knew her name but this was the safest way to go. He recieved an incoherent mumble as an answer. ’‘Pardon?’’
Another mumble, but this time a little louder. He sighed and rolled his eyes and laid down. ’‘One more time...’’
’’I-... I’m Fluttershy’’. She hid her face in her mane.
’‘Nice to meet you Fluttershy but may I ask, what you’re doing out here?’’ Discord stood up again and walked towards her. She backed away a little before she stopped.
’’Oh, um... I was walking home when I... I saw you sleeping here and I thought that you might have been i-i-injured or... something.’’ Fluttershy said it in a tiny voice as she hid her face again.
’‘I’m fine, don’t you worry your pretty little head about that.’’ Discord stretched his back and groaned as it popped.
Fluttershy seemed to have frozen in place as soon as he had said ’‘pretty’’. Discord mentally facehoofed and remembered how shy she really is. She shook her head and looked down on her hooves. ’’I-i-i-if y-you say so...’’
’’If you have somewhere to be, you don’t have to stay here. It’s not rude to leave when you have another appointment.’’ Discord walked past her.
’’O-Oh good because I’m running late for a spa appointment with Rarity. It was nice talking to you, Phasmatis.’’ She trotted off in a fairly good pace.
Discord kept walking through town, he was bored after his nap and was looking for things to do. He was walking through town until he came to a place that he remembered the most of his last time here when he was still a draconequus. It was the place where he had most recently been turned to stone. It was an open part of the town, there were no stalls there or anything. Just a bunch of ponies walking around it, oblivious to the painful memories he was re-living. He walked slowly to the part where he stood when the rainbow had struck him. The memory was on playback in his mind. The moment the rainbow had hit him repeated over and over. Much from the looks of other ponies, he sat down at the same place all those years ago and closed his eyes.
’‘Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing’’ I was just about to drink some glass, until that damn voice interrupted me. It was Twilight Sparkle and the other wretched Elements. If they thought that it was going to work, I should at least give them a fair shot. ’‘Ugh, this again?’’ I finished my glass and threw the chocolate milk away. Shame that I missed the explosion.
The next one to speak was that Applejack. She seemed confident that it would work, something felt wrong about their presence. I had to do something. I pulled hers and the rest of the elements to me. Except for Twilight Sparkle. Her element knocked away my magic.
’‘Will you ever learn?’’ I was sick of their games. It was going to end now. Until Twilight Sparkle used her own damn magic against me, her element shielded the others and released them from my grasp. The end was coming closer, I knew it.
She started lecturing me about friendship, yada, yada, yada, yada. ’‘Ughh, gag. Fine, go ahead, try and use your little elements ‘frenemies’. I’m missing some exellent chaos here.’’ If I wouldn’t have been so ignorant, I could have been able to fight back and avoid being turned to stone, but no. I admit, they took me by surprise. But it still doesn’t take the pain of turning to stone away. My final wish before I was imprisoned again was that the next time I broke free, I would not be turned back to stone. I don’t want the pain to return again. It was too much.
He just sat there with his eyes closed, remembering that faithful day that sealed him away again. Discord could hear the sound of ponies walking around. He opened his eyes to see a certain lavender unicorn also sitting on the same place that she had been standing six years ago. She was looking down at her hooves, she hadn’t seen him. He immediately registered the unicorn to be Twilight Sparkle.
He silently growled, stood up and trotted away. ’’What was she doing there, and why at that place?’’ Discord thought to himself as he walked a few laps around the town to calm himself down. To his horror, he had walked in a circle and had returned to where he had left. Now Twilight was sitting with her back towards him. He walked slowly to her,
Luna had retreated to her room. She had to clear her thoughts of the days that had she had spent with her sister talking about Discord. She didn’t mind being around her sister and talking to her. But talking about Discord was never easy for her.
He was once kind and warm-hearted. She was close to him three thousand years ago. But then he snapped. Her sister had caught them, and Celestia had attacked him. He couldn’t take it and he snapped. A gentle knock interrupted her thoughts.
’‘Luna?’’ Celestia peeked inside.
’‘Come in, Tia.’’ Luna walked towards her sister.
’‘Luna, I have to talk to you. It’s about Discord.’’ Celestia walked inside her sister’s room. The walls were dark blue and was decorated with paintings and other things. A desk filled with papers and books was in the corner. Luna had been studying about the time before she came back from her lunar exile.
Luna tensed up as soon as his name had left her sister’s mouth, but she managed to calm down. ’‘Have they found anything about his whereabouts?’’
’‘I’m not here to talk about that... 3000 years ago... I know what I did to the both of you and I know I was a major cause of his fall... He was naturally chaotic but he could control himself. He released his control soon after I...’’ Celestia looked at the floor in shame. ’‘After I condemned your relationship with him and called him a monster.’’
Luna walked up to her sister and placed her forelegs around her neck and embraced her. ’‘You only did what you thought was right... We all make mistakes... And your mistake may have been a little worse than others, but you are already forgiven for it.’’ Luna felt tears fall to her back from her older sister.
’’I made so many mistakes... he will never forgive me... We rebelled against him together, that’s another reason from him to never look us in the eyes again.’’ Celestia stopped her crying and allowed Luna to release her embrace.
’‘All three of us made mistakes and now when we find him, you and I will confront him before the Elements of Harmony do.’’ Luna walked to the balcony in her room and took a deep breath of the refreshing evening air.
’‘But my mistake made me lose my sister for a thousand years...’’ Celestia sighed as he walked out from the room.
Luna turned around to say something but the door was already closed with no sign of her sister.
Discord built up his courage as he came closer to Twilight Sparkle. He didn’t know why he had to do that, as he could easily overpower her. He took a deep breath as he was just behind her. ’‘Hello?’’ He said in a soft tone, she jumped a little as when she heard him. She swiftly stood up and faced him with a fake smile.
’‘Hello there.’’ She chuckled nervously.
’‘Why were you sitting there?’’ He lifted his left foreleg and motioned to the patch of grass where she had been.
’’Oh...’’ She seemed surprise to have been asked that question. It was obvious that she was thinking of something to say, as her eyes were looking in almost every possible direction. Her mouth was opening and closing with no sound coming from it. ’’I was... Thinking! Yeah, thinking!’’ Twilight grinned.
Discord rolled his eyes again. Of course she would be thinking. That’s what she almost always does in stressful situations. He had noticed that the first time she had seen her in the throne room all those years ago. ’‘What were you thinking about?’’
’‘Stuff.’’
’‘Stuff?’’
’’Yes, stuff.’’ Twilight stretched her back before she seemed to remember something. ’’Oh! How rude of me! I haven’t asked you for your name when we’ve been talking all this time. I’m Twilight Sparkle, personal student of Princess Celestia.’’
’‘Geez, tell me something I DON’T know...’’ Discord thought to himself. But at the mention of Celestia, he cringed as a memories of her was brought forward. He pushed them away. ’’My name is Phasmatis.’’ He levitated the last of his apples from the pocket in his cloak. ’‘And I like apples.’’ He said before he took a big bite. Some juice from the sweet fruit trickled down his cheek and dropped to the ground.
’‘You know, it feels like I’ve met you before...’’ Twilight said, deep in thought.
Discord swallowed the rest of the apple still in his mouth with a big gulp. His eyes widened and were locked on the lavender unicorn lost in her own thoughts.
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Twilight tapped her chin with her left hoof. Discord was trying his best to not to panic, it wasn’t going that well. She suddenly stopped tapping her hoof and placed it back on the ground. She took a step closer to Discord. As she moved forwards, he moved backwards.
’‘Hmm... Nope. Haven’t seen you before, but you remind me of someone I thought I’ll never see again. Oh well.’’ Twilight shrugged.
Discord hadn’t felt this relieved since he escaped from his stone prison the first time. He took a deep breath to calm down. ’‘What made you think you’ve met me before?’’ Discord cracked his neck and groaned as it popped. ’‘I’ve never seen you before.’’
Twilight nodded absent-mindedly. ’’I guess it was a simple mistake then, I must be going. I’ll see you around Phasmatis.’’ She turned around and trotted off. Discord watched her go, and scowled as she trotted around a corner.
’‘You’ll remember me soon enough, dear Twilight...’’ He growled beneath his breath as he walked back out of town. His mind was once again clouded by his past. It felt like his eyes became covered and he could only see hate and feel pain. He didn’t like this feeling, but this is how it was when he was someone nopony wanted anything to do with. Discord’s mind becomes fixated on chaos, disharmony, hate and pain.
He continued trotting out of town but faster than before. He was grinding his teeth. The chaos energy was coming back to him and he would be able to use it soon enough. Discord would have to test it before he could unleash it, of course. But when it became time to unleash it, he wouldn’t hold back and allow his sweet insanity to devour them all.
Outside of town, he was trying to focus the chaos energy. He had two energies. The first one was his own natural magic, the one he could use to levitate objects and such, like a unicorn’s magic, but more powerful. The second one was his chaos energy. The chaos energy was what made him the Spirit of Disharmony. It was near uncontrollable, he didn’t know the full extent of it and he didn’t want to know. It was the chaos energy that granted him immortality. Without it, he would’ve died a long time ago. The Draconequus race is long since extinct. He was the last of them because he used the chaos enrgy to kill the rest. All draconequus’ had a small natural piece of chaos energy. Discord’s energy was unnaturally strong. It made him irritable and unreasonable. Until he met somepony who taught him to control it, that pony was Princess Luna, who wasn’t a Princess back then.
Discord had focused enough energy for a small burst. The crimson aura around his horn turned slowly yellow and with a loud grunt and a flash, he was able to release a small amount of it. But what he saw a bit infront of him made him facehoof again. It looked like a big hairless monkey, and the only coat it had was on its head. The creature stood up slowly.
’‘What... What is this place?’’ The creature croaked, it looked confused. He looked around to see Discord staring at him with a bored look. ’‘HOLY HELL THAT’S A PONY!’’ The creature pointed at him and started jumping around.
’‘Nnnope.’’ Discord said in a slow, bored tone and pointed his horn towards the creature. His horn started glowing a crimson aura that turned yellow again and shot a beam at the creature. With another flash, it was gone. ’’No need for another one of those.’’ He said as he turned to look at the reader with a small smile. He suddenly snapped back and shook his head.
’‘What was that?’’ He asked nopony in particular. ’‘Must be an effect from the chaos energy.’’ He reasoned as he laid down, using the chaos energy took a lot out of him. It was night time and he was struggling in vain to keep his eyes open. He fell asleep with a sigh.
A unicorn guard was running through the halls around the castle, the information he was holding was a top priority to get to one of the Princesses. He knew that Princess Celestia had retreated for the night and the only one awake was Princess Luna. She was probably in her quarters reading about modern times. His armor clanked as he turned sharply around a corner. A small trail of sweat trickled down his brow. His expression was determined to get to the Monarch of the Night as soon as possible. He skidded to a halt in front of Luna’s room, composed himself, straightened his armor and knocked three times. A navy aura engulfed the door and cracked open slowly. Luna walked over to the door and saw a frazzled-looking guard standing outside the room. She understood immediately what it had to be about.
’‘Come in.’’ She opened the door fully and moved out of the way. The guard nodded and walked inside. ’’I understand this must be about Discord, yes?’’ Luna asked the guard. He nodded briefly. ’‘Tell me.’’
’‘Our scans showed a small outbreak of chaotic energy. We assume that it’s Discord, as nopony else other than him would be able to cause such a disturbance.’’ The guard cracked his neck.
’‘When did this happen?’’ Luna paced around the room.
’’We think that the original outbreak of the energy was released three hours ago. There was two outbreak close to eachother. It took time for us to sense it as we were in the middle of changing shifts.’’
”And the location of the outbreak?” Luna stopped pacing and stopped in front of the guard.
’‘Very good, I will tell my sister about the situation at hoof. Go and get some sleep, you have earned it.’’ Luna turned around and walked back to her desk littered with books.
”Thank you princess. Have a lovely night.’’ He saluted and walked out of the room and back to his home, where his wife and filly were waiting.
Discord woke up the next morning due to a loud rumbling from his stomach. He groaned as he realised that he would have to go back in town to get some food. ’‘Damn this form and its constant need for food...’’ As a draconequus, he didn’t have to eat every day. His digestion was slower than a pony’s so he would get full quicker and stay full longer.
He stood up and stretched his back which felt really good as it popped. He glanced around to see if anypony was around. Nopony was present outside of town, or maybe even in the town for that matter. It was early morning and the only ponies out would likely be the ponies setting up their stands for today’s sales. When he was sure that nopony was around, he stretched his wings. They cracked and popped as they hadn’t been used since he’d arrived three days ago. It felt relieving and he wished he could just fly for a little while. He obviously couldn’t, as it would atract too much attention.
Discord started walking back into town. The fact that ponies would wave to him and smile even when he didn’t know them unsettled him a little. He walked up to a yellow mare with an orange mane selling carrots.
After this purchase, he was broke. He could get some bits later when he needed them. He levitated a carrot out from his pocket and took a bite. He usually didn’t like carrots, but it was different now with another body. Changes like these didn’t feel right to him. He thought that he could hear a faint buzzing sound in the distance, but as he walked around a corner, he saw an orange filly driving a scooter with her wings while pulling a small cart behind her carrying two other fillies. They were heading straight for him. The orange filly driving the scooter had a look of terror on her face. Discord realised that it meant that she wasn’t able to stop. The fillies started screaming as they closed in on him.
’’Oh for the love of-’’ He was cut off by the three fillies and a scooter crashing into him.
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Discord was lying dazed on the ground. His head was throbbing from the hit. How three fillies could pack so much speed and force into an impact was something he probably would never understand. His ears were ringing and as it was starting to subside, he could hear faint arguing.
’’Yeh shoulda been more careful where yer goin’, Scoots!’’ He lifted his head slightly to see a bright yellow earth pony filly with a pink bow in her red mane reprimand an orange pegasus filly with a frazzled purple mane. He relaxed and allowed his head to drop to the ground so he could compose himself before standing up. Those fillies felt familiar to him, he didn’t know why.
’‘Geez, Sorr-y...’’ The pegasus filly said, drawing out her words more than neccesary. She walked over to her tipped-over scooter and inspected it for damages. Another filly, but this one was a unicorn and was white and had a light purple and pink mane. All of the fillies had no cutiemarks.
’‘But Applebloom, it wasn’t like Scootaloo meant to crash into that stallion.’’ She pointed a hoof at Discord’s whimpering form. Scootaloo started nodding furiously.
’‘Jus’ be more careful next time, ‘kay?’’ The earth pony filly walked to her friend and helped her get it standing like it was supposed to. Discord groaned and decided that it was time to get up. The girls jumped slightly as they saw him beginning to stand up. When he was standing at full height, he was easily towering over the fillies. He stretched his neck to its full extent and scowled. The fillies all gulped at the same time.
’‘That hurt. ’’ Discord said in a menacing tone. He now recognized the fillies to be the ones who caused the ruckus 6 years ago that allowed him to escape from his prison. He had forgotten to thank them before he was turned into a statue again.
’‘We’re sorry...’’ They said again at the same time. He didn’t know how they managed to say and do so much in sync like that. ’‘Especially Scootaloo, since she’s the one who crashed into you.’’ The unicorn filly pointed a hoof to her pegasus friend who was grinning sheepishly and looking everywhere but in his direction.
’’Is that so..?’’ Discord arched an eyebrow and casted a glance at the filly she was pointing at.
’‘Eeyup!’’ The filly Discord had understood to be Applebloom chirped, wanting to be a part of the conversation.
’‘Well then.’’ Discord grinned madly and took a few menacing steps towards the cowering pegasus. The filly was trying hard not to shake, it wasn’t going that good. ’‘What do you have to say for yourself?’’ Discord slowed his pace and stopped right infront of her, looking down at her with a sly grin across his features.
’‘I’m s-sorry for running you over back there...’’ Scootaloo stood up on shaky legs and straightened herself, assuring herself that nothing bad was going to happen to her.
’’No harm done. Apology accepted.’’ Discord said with a shrug as he turned swiftly and walked away from the fillies.
’‘Wait!’’ Applebloom shouted at Discord and trotted after him.
Discord groaned and turned to look down at the filly standing next to him. ’‘What now?’’
’‘This may sound weird but can th’ girls an’ Ah see yer cutiemark?’’ Applebloom beamed at him with an enthusiastic tone.
’’Uh...’’ Discord didn’t know if he would allow it, heck, he didn’t know if he even HAD a cutiemark to begin with. The filly standing next to him pouted and made her best puppy-dog stare at him. He was an ancient spirit who’s entire being was composed of chaos and disharmony; yet here he was, slowly caving in due to a puppy-dog look from a young filly. This was a new low, even for him.
’‘Ugh, fine.’’ He rolled his eyes and turned to his side and moved his cloak slightly but not so much that his wings would be exposed. The fillies eyes widened at the sight of his mark.
’‘Cool...’’ Scootaloo muttered, slowly raising a hoof to touch it but placed it back on the ground after a second thought and a stare from Discord. He craned his neck so he could see the mark for himself. It was a red circle with 8 arrows that had slightly crooked tails protruding from the middle. He had to admit that it was pretty cool. After a quick look at it, he turned away from the fillies and walked away, ignoring their calls for him to stay and tell them how he got it. He snickered and levitated a carrot from his cloak.
’’Two outbreaks in such a short time?!’’ Celestia exclaimed after Luna had explained the situation to her.
’‘Yes, the guards are working to scry his energy and find his location.’’ Luna paced around in the large throne room adorned with red carpets with gilded edges. Banners with the marks of both of the regal sisters were hanging from the high ceiling. The enormous glass windows were letting the suns rays dance into the room unhindered. ’’We should know his of his whereabouts sometime tomorrow unless something interrupts them. Otherwise they will have to start over.’’
Celestia scratched her chin, lost in thought before she spoke up. ’‘When they have figured out where he is, you and me will go out to intercept him before the Elements do, as we’ve planned.’’ Celestia stood from her throne and descended the carpet-covered steps to walk besides her younger sister.
’‘What will happen if he decides to attack us as soon as we get there?’’ Luna asked, a hint of concern in her voice.
’‘Then we will have to return his ’greeting’ to the best of our abilities and retreat back to Canterlot.’’ Celestia nuzzled her sister, who returned the gesture almost immediatelty.
’’I hope he will forgive me. Because, even after all he’s done, I still miss him...’’ Luna sighed and leaned to her sister, closing her eyes.
’’We will have to hope for the best.’’ Celestia looked out the window, towards the horizon and wondering where in Equestria Discord could be.
Discord yawned and rolled onto his back; he had been napping again. He didn’t know why this form required so much rest but he didn’t complain. He stood up and stretched his back. A satisfactory ’pop’ echoed from it. He grunted and rolled his shoulders. Discord looked at his coat to see that he was in fact, filthy. He cursed the speed-hungry filly and looked around for a lake.
After a brief walk around the outskirts of town, he could see the shore of a big lake. He walked up to it and dipped a hoof in the water. It was cold, but not too cold. A relieved shudder rippled through his body. He cautiously stepped down in the water until he remembered that he still had the cloak on him. He looked around to make sure that nopony was around. When he was sure there wasn’t anypony in the immediate area, He magically removed the cloak and hid it in a bush. After he had removed the cloak, he took a quick breath and dipped his head beneath the surface of the water.
As his head breached the surface again, he gasped for air and flicked his head back to get his mane out of his eyes. This was pleasant. He used his wings to propel through the water in impressive speed. As he returned to where he had hidden his cloak, somepony was there. He panicked for a bit in fear that the pony had found it. He snuck towards the shore just below the surface, his wings tightly held to his side. He lifted his head from below the surface and made a quick gasp for breath. The pony on the shore was a white unicorn with a luxurious purple mane. It was nopony else than Rarity, the Element of Generosity. She was setting up a blanket and laid down on it slowly and sighed. Discord cleared his throat. Her eyes snapped open and stared right at him. Fear struck her features.
’‘What are you doing?’’ Discord asked slowly while raising the tone slightly with every word, accusing her as she had done something wrong.
He didn’t get an answer, if a few hyperventilating gasps and a very annoying scream didn’t count as an answer. Rarity fell onto her back and kicked her hooves into the air, still screaming. Discord levitated the cloak to him and put it on. As he emerged from the water and shook himself dry, the screaming increased in volume. He frowned and rubbed his temple with his left hoof.
This was going to take a while
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Discord was sitting on his haunches and covering his ears with his hooves. His eyes were screwed shut and he was gritting his teeth. Rarity was still screaming. She finally gasped for air and Discord took an opportunity to shut her up.
’‘Would you please stop screaming and just listen for a minute?’’ Discord relaxed and his hooves left his ears and made contact with the ground. He shook his head in an attempt to rid it of the ringing.
’’I suppose. If you meant to hurt me you would already ha-’’ She was disrupted by a purple dragon erupting from a bush. The small dragon puffed out his chest and it looked like he was flexing his very nonexistant muscles.
’‘I’ll save you Rarity!’’ Spike said as he lept towards Discord screaming. The scream was high-pitched and was very similair to that of a filly half his age. He started hammering his fists into Discord’s chest. Discord just looked down confused at the baby dragon ’punching’ him. He looked back at Rarity who just shrugged. Spike had started panting from the effort it took to barrage the intruder with vicious blows. Discord had enough of the afternoon massage and used his right hoof to push away the dragon to arms length.
Spike opened his eyes, confused. He was punching, but he wasn’t landing a single one on the strange stallion. He noticed that the stallion was holding him away with a hoof on his head and a gentle push. He looked thoroughly unamused. Spike’s face flushed a little as he realized that Rarity wasn’t in danger. He stopped punching and gulped. ’‘Heh... Heh... eh... ‘Sup?’’ Spike grinned sheepishly.
’‘Spike!’’ Rarity shouted his name, immediately turning his attention to the white unicorn while muttering something. ’‘That was horribly uncouth of you! Apologize for your actions at once!’’ She punctuated her sentence by lifting her hoof and gently thumping it back to the ground. Spike just groaned and turned towards Discord, who had a smug grin. Spike cleared his throat. ’‘Well?’’
’‘I’m sorry for... y’know, running out here and punching you like I did... I guess...’’ Spike rubbed the back of his head and chuckled nervously.
’‘It’s nothing really, and you didn’t punch that hard.’’ Discord nonchalantly lifted his left hoof, inspected it for a while before he rubbed it against his chest. ’‘But I must ask; what were you doing in that bush?’’ Discord asked Spike, arching his eyebrow at him. The young dragon seemed to tense up and blush slightly before brushing it off.
’‘Um... I heard... I heard screaming. Yeah, screaming! So I ran here and saw you, and expected the worst. I was totally not in that bush to watch Rari-’’ He covered his mouth and adopted a panicked expression, much to Discord’s amusement and Rarity’s slight confusion.
’‘Well then, run off if you would. I have a beautiful mare to apologize to.’’ Discord knew that the dragon had a crush on Rarity, as it was glaringly obvious. Spike however seemed to dislike the stallion more by every passing moment. Spike turned around and stomped off to Ponyville. Discord couldn’t contain his laughter and fell onto his back while clutching his side. His back legs were kicking skyward. Rarity cleared her throat, unamused. ’’Oh. Right.’’ Discord sat back up.
’’I presume I should be the first one to apologize as I started screaming and wouldn’t listen to what you were saying. I’m sorry for acting like I did.’’ Rarity shuffled her hooves around, looking slightly looking up at Discord. Discord unvoluntarily stretched his back a little.
’‘And I guess I should apologize for just turning up like that and startling you...’’ Discord faked feeling bad as what he had originally planned for the white unicorn was much worse than scaring her and making her scream. She was going to scream when his plan was fulfilled anyways.
’’Oh! How terribly rude of me not to ask for your name! My name is Rarity, I live in Ponville.’’ She blew a stray hair from her mane out of her face, stood up and walked closer toward Discord.
’‘The name’s Phasmatis.’’ Rarity seemed to be very interested in his name. ’’I came to Ponyville about four days ago.’’ Discord stretched his back. Rarity was now standing just in front of him, eyeing his cloak cautiously.
’’I say, who made this exquisite cloak?’’ Rarity lifted her hoof and rubbed his chest, to feel the fabric of the cloak.
’’Uh... I... I made it myself...’’ He realized that Rarity was coming on to him. Rarity’s eyes widened at the revelation. Discord took a step back out of Rarity’s reach.
Rarity pouted a little. ’’My, my. A gentlecolt AND a colt that can handle fabrics..’’ Her ears splayed backwards as her eyes closed halfway and she leaned a little towards him. Poor Discord was lost. He didn’t know what to do and he was working very hard to not release the control of his wings. Easier said than done. Words were hard to find at the moment.
’‘Um... Miss Rarity, I’d appreciate it if you would stop... All I got from my last relationship was a shattered heart...’’ He wasn’t lying. He distanced himself from feelings like those after it collapsed on his own shoulders. ’’It changed me, and I released something that should’ve never seen the light of day...’’ Discord sighed and walked past Rarity, his head slightly hanging.
’‘I- I’m sorry, I didn’t mean t-’’ She was disrupted by a crimson flash as Discord teleported himself away from her. Rarity sighed and returned to lying on the blanket she originally placed on the shore.
Five high-ranking unicorn guards were standing around a table in a dark, quiet room. On the table was a map of Equestria. The map was shimmering slightly from the magic used to pin-point the location of the chaotic outbreak. All of the guards were highly focused on the task. One slight disturbance and they’d have to start the process again right from the beginning. All their work would be fruitless should they fail.
The map started growing brighter, it now required more magic than before. All of the guards groaned from the strain and after a bright flash that lighted the entire room, the map was glowing slightly. One of the guards reached for the map and controlled it. The result made his eyes widen of the realization of where the outbreaks had been. Just outside of Ponyville, where the Elements of Harmony were living. He took off running rolling the map up as he charged down the halls of the castle. The remaining guards all exchanged a glance. A reaction like that couldn’t mean anything good.
As he thundered around a corner, he had to shout for a few ponies to get out of his way. This new information was more important to get to the Princesses than helping Prince Blueblood change clothes. This was a matter of national security, not a complaint about always waking up blinded by the sun.
He was running down the last hall leading to the massive throne room where Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were holding court for the day. The guards by the door understood that something big was happening so they opened the door so the running guard wouldn’t have to slow down. Once he was inside the throne room, he charged past the high-class ponies judging his appearance and pace to be uncouth and dangerous. He ignored them like he always did and stopped by the small staircase leading up to the thrones were two very confused and troubled Princesses were sitting. They understood what had happened. Celestia stood up and adressed the crowd.
’’I am terribly sorry my little ponies, but today’s court must be cut short for other important matters at hoof.’’ The small crowd mumbled a little before they complied and walked out of the room. As the last of them walked out, Princess Luna used her magic to lock the door and soundproof the room so nopony could eavesdrop. Celestia turned to her frazzled guard. ’’I believe you have found out where he is, correct?’’ Celestia held her breath, awaiting the answer she hoped for. Luna was leaning slightly towards them both.
’‘Yes Princess, we have.’’ Both of the Princesses sighed in relief. ’‘However, his location is, to say the least, very unnerving.’’ The Princesses shared a look and stared at the guard.
’‘What do you mean?’’ Luna walked towards the guard and looked straight into his golden eyes with a look of genuine concern.
’‘Take a look.’’ He levitated the still glowing map to Luna, who snatched it from him with her own magic. She looked at it closely. Her eyes widened at the result and she lost all concentration, making the map drop to the softly carpeted floor. Celestia gulped as she saw the expression on her younger sister.
’‘Where... Where is he?’’ Celestia walked up to her sister and placed her left wing on her back for comfort.
’‘Ponyville...’’ Her voice was hollow of emotions and her eyes distant.
’‘That damn harlot!’’ Discord had flown into the Everfree Forest. He bucked a tree with all he could muster, making the trunk of the tree crack. ’‘Who the hell does she think she is!?’’ He shouted as he focused his horn on a large stone, shot a red and yellow beam against it, making the stone explode on impact.
’‘I’ll show her... I’ll show them all...’’ He was panting heavily from the effort he put into destroying a small part of the forest. He laid down and started shivering. Rarity had reminded him of the love he had and then lost. It was a long time since he had given it a moments thought and Rarity just went right ahead and brought it up... again.
’‘They will pay...’’ He yawned and rested his head on his arms, falling asleep almost instantly.
’‘Get away from her, you monstrosity!’’ Discord was asleep, but words were echoing through his head and making his sleep much less peaceful. ’‘Sister, please! Stop this!’’ He was having nightmares from the fateful day that made him loose control of his chaotic energy, or ’‘Periculum’’ that it is also known as.
’‘Why are you defending this beast, Luna?!’’ Celestia scowled at her younger sister who was standing in front of me, spreading her magnificent midnight-blue wings. I was lying there, broken, Celestia had gotten to me before Luna had intercepted her. She hadn’t been merciful against me.
’’I...’’ Luna turned around and looked me right in my mismatched eyes. Her eyes were brimming with tears as she saw my tattered form. My wings were pointing in sick directions and my eagle talon was broken. But worst of all, my wonderful beard had been torched clean off. Luna’s eyes set with determination and confidence as she turned away from me. ’’I... love him...’’ She stretched her neck in defiance and gave her sister a fierce stare. This wasn’t going to be pretty.
Discord was sweating, he hadn’t had a nightmare in years. He rolled over on his back and groaned while kicking his legs out as if he was running.
’‘You... You love him...?’’ Celestia stared dumbfounded at her sister, then down at me. Her eyes met mine. Her gaze softened a little before it hardened even more than before. ’‘But he’s a Draconequus!’’ Celestia exclaimed, still staring at me. ’‘Can’t you feel his Periculum?! It’s dangerous!’’ Celestia spat, she saw me like I was cancer that needed to be excised. Luna flinched a little from her sister’s harsh words. I stood up on shaky legs and placed my lion paw on Luna’s back. She looked at me in confusion. She was silently begging me to sit down and not get in the way. I refused and smiled at her.
’‘Discord isn’t dangerous Celestia! He can control his Periculum, unlike other Draconeqi! I helped him with it... I... I won’t leave him.’’ She turned her head and looked straight into my eyes. She was letting her tears flow freely. I cautiously moved my lion paw from her back and wiped a tear from her cheek while giving her a reassuring smile. Celestia didn’t like it at all. I could feel the temperature rise slightly due to Celestia’s rage.
’‘ENOUGH!’’ Celestia boomed, both Luna and I flinched from the sudden rise of volume. I was legitimately afraid of Celestia. She controlled the freaking sun after all! Luna cowered away from her sister and turned towards me. She pressed her head to my chest. I could feel her tears staining my coat. It hurt to see her like this. I embraced her, wincing slightly from the pain in my eagle talon. I ignored the pain and focused on Luna. She needed me. ’‘Luna... Step away from him. Now.’’ Celestia hissed through gritted teeth. Her horn started glowing menacingly. Luna only pressed harder towards my chest as sobs quietly racked her body. I ran my paw through her mane, fighting tears of my own.
’‘Luna please...’’ I croaked, my throat hurt when I talked. Luna looked up at me with quivering lips and bloodshot eyes. It broke my heart to see her like this. ’‘You have to go... I will be fine, I promise... I don’t want to cause any more pain and rivalry between you two...’’ Celestia looked surprised that I would take her side on this. I still didn’t think that I’m dangerous, just reasonably unsafe to be around. Luna wrapped her hooves around my neck and sobbed into my neck. ’’Lu... You have to do this... For me...’’ I said in a soft tone that was near breaking down.
Discord kept on rolling around and kicking his legs at random. He was still sweating profusely. He was gritting his teeth and felt cold.
’‘Okay...’’ Luna sighed in defeat and pressed on tighter against me before she let go. She turned around and walked towards her sister. Celestia had a confused look. She barely acknowledged Luna walking past her. ’‘Don’t you go around thinking I’ll forget you.’’ Luna smiled softly to me with bloodshot eyes. Her horn was surrounded with a navy aura and after a flash, she was gone. I fell to my knees and bowed my head. This was it. This was when I would be erased from existence by a enraged alicorn. Or so I thought.
’‘Draconequus.’’ I looked up at Celestia, I must’ve looked pathetic from her point of view. ’’It took courage for you to do what you just did.’’ I could see her eyes staring down at me and up my features. She winced slightly as she saw what she had done to me. I only started laughing. It started as a soft giggle but it erupted to a full-out guffaw. ’‘What is it?’’ She loked puzzled. I looked up at her with a crazed expression and a wide grin.
’‘You don’t know what you just did, do you?’’ I asked her with as much malice as I could. I could see her backing away from me. ’‘You just released the true me.’’ Screw compassion. Celestia just gaped as I stood up at my full length. I fused some of my Periculum and healed myself. My wings snapped back to place, my broken eagle talon was pieced back together. Even my beautiful beard grew back. Happy days! ’‘Say hi to Lu for me!’’ I held out my lion paw palm-first towards her and released a shockwave of magic towards Celestia. She flew back and landed on her side a few feet away. I waltzed up to her where she was lying and bent down to her. Fear was evident across her face. ’‘Wanna know what I’m gonna do now?’’
’’Wh-What?’’ Poor Celestia was almost shaking from fear. It made me laugh.
’‘I’m going to spread some chaos and destruction across Equestria. All thanks to you making me not care anymore. Ciao.’’ I snapped my talon and in another flash, I was gone.
Discord woke up with a sharp gasp and a few twitches of his hind legs. His eyes shot open and quickly surveyed the area around him. Nothing was there but he felt as if something big was about to happen. He levitated a carrot from his cloak and chewed on it slowly, expecting something to jump out from a bush and attack him.
Luna was pacing around in her room. Tomorrow, she was going to Ponyville with her sister tomorrow incognito to search for Discord. The last time he broke free Luna had been too afraid to encounter him, so she had been hiding in her room during that week. She wasn’t going to hide this time. Only her and Celestia would try to find and talk him into not causing any major destruction or harm towards Equestria and the Elements. It was farfetched, but it was worth a shot.
She plopped down onto her massive bed and laid down on her back, cracking a few joints in the progress. She couldn’t help but to think of how he would react to her or her sister’s presence. She hoped that it would be peaceful, without any fighting or a big argument breaking out. There were big chances that that was exactly what was going to happen.
Celestia and her scientists had been constructing a necklace that could shut out any magic from being used for anypony, by anypony. It would mean that even if the pony who recieved the necklace was non-unicorn, that pony wouldn’t be able to use his natural magic. Hopes were high that it would work on a Draconequus.
Luna closed her eyes and sighed. She had been up all night, worrying about the confrontation and reading. She finally fell asleep and got a well-deserved rest.
Back in Ponyville, Discord was making a very good impression of a chainsaw. He had fallen back asleep after his breakfast. This time he wasn’t disturbed by any nightmares or timid pegasi. It was only him and his sleep but the feeling off something big threatening to happen soon was still disturbing him deeply.
Discord had unknowingly slept away the rest of the day and the night and now it was morning again. He groaned and stretched his back. Maybe this was a good day to head back into town. It felt like something was drawing him back. He stood up on legs that felt like spaghetti. He yawned as he started walking back into the sleepy town. Judging by the sun, it was probably around 10 in the morning. He levitated his last carrot from his cloak and started trotting towards the town a little faster than normal.
Back in town, there was nopony around. The market stands were up like they always were, but nopony was handling them. He heard a sound in the distant and decided to see what was going on, he trotted around and building and saw a big crowd standing by a stage. But what was on stage made his blood freeze and his heart beat faster at the same time. Luna was standing on stage, next to her sister. Luna seemed uninterested in what her sister were doing and rolled her eyes. To his horror, Luna spotted him in the back of the crowd. Discord started backing away slowly, until he turned away and ran off at full speed.
The day was going slower than Luna had expected. Celestia and Luna were sitting in the royal chariot. Why Celestia decided to take the chariot when teleporting to Ponyville would have taken much quicker, she had no idea. Luna laid down and rested her head on her forelegs.
’‘Luna?’’ Celestia poked her sister on her wing.
’‘What is it, Celestia?’’
’’Is something worrying you?’’ Celestia’s tone was filled with concern.
Luna sighed, she couldn’t lie to her sister about things like these. ’‘Discord... I don’t know if I can see him without feeling like I’m going to cry.’’ Luna had visited his stone prison several times, it always ended up with her running away nearly crying from her guilt.
’’I will be right beside you, don’t worry. Even Discord can be reasonable when he wants to be.’’ Celestia embraced her younger sister with her wings and pulled her close. Luna closed her eyes and leaned towards Celestia.
It didn’t take long until they landed in the Ponyville Square. Everypony gasped when they saw the Princesses visiting without a notice. Twilight Sparkle had passed out and was brought back to her library. Right now Celestia and Luna were on the stage, answering random questions from anypony. The mayor was talking to Celestia. Luna didn’t care what it was they were talking about. She just sighed and rolled her eyes. When she set her eyes back on the crowd she could see a new addition to the crowd in the back. It was a goldish grey unicorn stallion with mesmerizing crimson eyes. His mane was a greyish black with a silver white streak next to his left ear. His horn looked odd somehow. He was wearing a stylish wine-red cloak. His face had switched to a panicked expression as soon as he realized that Luna was staring at him. He was backing away slowly before he turned around and ran off as fast as he seemingly could.
Luna spread her wings and leaped out over the crowd before she gave her wings a powerful beat and was off in hot pursuit. Celestia’s jaw fell as she saw her sister thunder around a corner.
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Discord was running as fast as he could, he was close to panicking but he had to keep running. His heart felt like it was thumping so hard that it would pop through his chest at any given moment. He gritted his teeth and groaned. Luna was a fast flier. He knew firsthoof as they used to race eachother when they were younger. He quickly dismissed those thoughts and skidded around another building.
’‘STOP!’’ He heard Luna shout to him. He looked back to see that she was quickly coming closer and closer.
’‘SHIT! ’’ Discord accelerated slightly and went around another corner. If he kept running around buildings, Luna would have to slow down so she wouldn’t crash into one.
’’We just want to talk!’’ Luna had come closer again. Discord was starting to panic again.
’‘Pfftch-yeah right!’’ Discord stomped on the gas and kicked up a cloud as he continued his running.
Back on stage, Celestia was stuck in an awkward silence. Nopony said anything. Even Pinkie Pie was quiet. Somepony in the crowd coughed, emphasizing the awkwardness. Celestia took a deep breath, she could handle this without her sister. She had ruled on her own for a thousand years before Luna returned from her banishment on the moon. Celestia smiled and adressed the crowd by clearing her throat, taking another deep breath.
’’So, a gryphon, a pony and a diamond dog walk into a bar-’’
Luna was starting to get tired from chasing him around Ponyville. There was no point in trying to talk him into stopping, he would just run faster. She knew that Discord was also beginning to get tired, as he was taking the narrow turns a little sloppier than what he did the first time. This gave her a window to inch herself closer to him. Discord finally made a mistake. He had ran out to a field surrounding Ponyville.
Discord was cursing himself for not looking where he was going. He was now on an open field close to the tree he had been sleeping under for the last week. His legs were starting to get numb from the constant abuse they were taking. He groaned as he realized that he was slowing down, even when he was giving it all he had.
Luna was rising slightly in attitude for her last move against him. When she was satisfied with the altitude she was in, she got into a dive heading straight for him. This boost of speed was exactly what she needed to bring him down. She banked a slightly and flew into his right side, tackling him to the ground.
In town, everypony was roaring from laughter from the joke that Celestia had told them. Many ponies were lying on the ground clutching their sides and gasping desperately for air. Celestia grinned as she saw that her joke had the intended effect. It didn’t take long until she started giggling softly to herself but it soon became a full out laughter, tears and everything.
Nopony expected that the princess would know such a perfect joke. The build-up for the joke made one want to hear the rest of it and the finish of the joke was just priceless. Laughter continued to spread across the crowd as ponies started to repeat the joke by themselves.
Discord was far from laughing. He was lying on his back, groaning in pain from the sudden hit. He cracked his eyes open for some very unwelcomed sunlight. As soon as he had opened his eyes he had shut them due to the light. He shifted around and could feel something weigh him down, he was too tired to care at the moment.
His eyes had finally adjusted to the light, he looked around to se shredded pieces of what once was his cloak. He laid his head down to the ground again with a thump. Apparently, thumping your head to the ground when you have a headache is stupid. Don’t do it, kids. His eyes shot open as he realised that something, or specifically somepony was touching his chest.
Discord lifted his head to see Luna lying on top of him, her cheek against the base of his neck. The rest of her body was also lying on top of him. Awkward. Discord started wiggling out from Luna’s grip, who tightened as he moved. He looked down at her again, she was staring right into his eyes. He couldn’t help but to think that she was still beautiful, even after everything that happened between them. He wiggled desperately a few more times, but this time with more force.
Luna sighed and climbed off him. Discord jumped to his hooves, only to collapse again as he couldn’t put any weight on his left front hoof. He had hurt it when Luna tackled him, Lovely. Discord gritted his teeth. Luna looked like she had just seen a small fluffy animal with big shiny eyes die.
Luna opened her mouth to talk, but she couldn’t find any words. This was Discord, she could feel it. It just seemed strange to see him as a pony. She had imagined him to be a little taller and perhaps a little bulkier. He was about a head shorter than her, his build was a little more muscular than an ordinary stallion. She noticed just now that he also had wings. He was an alicorn. Not surprising as he could fly and use magic as a Draconequs.
’‘You wanted to talk, then talk. ’’ Discord was clearly not amused by all of this. He spat some blood, as he had taken the entire hit for him and her.
’‘Celestia and I, we wanted to-’’
’’-Encase me back in stone, I know that already. Seems like instead of a draconequus, you’ll be getting a pony this time.’’ Discord scowled.
’’No... We just wanted to talk with you... Make a deal...’’ Luna was fighting hard not to shed tears. This was not the Discord she once knew.
’‘So, the perfect Godesses, that also work as Princesses, wish to deal with the Devil himself.’’ Discord smirked, this could prove to be interesting.
’’We wanted to talk about the imprisonment and the Elements.’’ Luna was starting to back away from him. She needed Celestia right now. As if on cue, Celestia landed gracefully besides her. Luna breathed a sigh of relief as she saw her older sister. Discord seemed to shrink back a litte before he stood back up and stretched as much as he could while balancing on three legs. Celestia’s pupils shrank as she got a good look at Discord and his current form.
’‘Discord..?’’ Celestia asked carefully, not daring to make any direct assumptions.
’‘Nooooooo, really? ’’ Discord stuck his tongue out and acted stupid for a while. ’‘If I understand correctly, Lu here said that you two wanted to talk to me about the Elements of Harmony, correct?’’ Luna seemed to cringe as he said that nickname that nopony had used for almost three thousand years now.
’‘Exactly.’’
’‘Ohohoho, this is gonna be good!’’ Discord limped towards them, one of his trademark grins plastered on his face. ’‘Hold that thought, for a while. ’’ Discord’s horn started glowing with a crimson aura, who slowly turned yellow. A red and yellow mini-tornado appeared around his damaged hoof. A snap echoed from the limb, and the tornado dissappeared into thin air. Discord stomped his hoof to the ground to test it. It was fully healed. With another stupid grin, he took another step towards the princesses who both took another cautious step back. ’’Oh come on, My breath isn’t THAT bad, is it?’’
Luna giggled at Discord’s joke, gaining a shifty look from Celestia. ’’We came here to propose a deal. No hurting the Elements of Harmony and you will not be turned back into stone. You can come with us peacefully, or we will be forced take action.’’ Celestia’s gaze or tone never wavered or showed any hint of weakness or lying.
’‘Killjoy...’’ Discord muttered.
’’Do you accept, or will we have to do it the hard way?’’ Celestia stretched her neck to its full extent. She almost towered over Discord.
Discord just got a crazed grin and a twitch. ’’My way...’ He growled as his horn blazed to life with his periculum.
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’‘This is so humiliating! ’’ Discord whined as he followed the Princesses back to the town. ’‘You’re a grim, grim pony Celestia!’’ He explained in a high-pitched voice to the solar Princess walking in front of him.
’‘Please be quiet, Discord.’’ Celestia groaned, she was already tired from the fight and she didn’t need a cranky spirit whining.
’’Am I annoying you? Who, me? I would never!’’ Discord made it sound like he was appalled by Celestia telling him to stop talking. He acted like one of the high-society Canterlot ponies and looked up to the sky in defiance. Luna just giggled at Discord’s behaviour and Celestia’s reactions.
’’I like statues because they don’t talk. ’’ Celestia growled at Discord, who just pouted and blew a raspberry at her. ’‘You’re being foalish , Discord...’’ Celestia groaned. This would prove to test her patience.
’‘At least I’m not boring.’’ Discord countered. Luna giggled again and moved closer towards him. ’’So, what’s this thing around my neck?’’
’‘It’s a special necklace created by Celestia and her top guards. It drains all your magic. All of it , even your natural magic. Only Celestia can open it once it’s closed.’’ Luna was walking just besides him. Discord didn’t seem to mind Luna being so close.
’’So that’s why my wings feel so heavy and I’m not as strong as before...’’ Discord said to himself and looked down at the ground. His legs trembled slightly and Luna moved in to brace him if he would fall. He looked into her eyes, they had a look of genuine concern for him. He dismissed it and kept walking. He gulped as he saw the first buildings of the town come into clear view.
’’We will go to the library where my student resides. I’m going to ask her to alert the rest of her friends.’’ Celestia stated and held her head up higher as they walked into the town. The townsponies bowed to the Princesses and just stared at Discord. Discord ignored their stares and kept on walking. He even heard a few mares whistle to him. Luna scowled at the mares who seemed to shrink visibly. Discord just chuckled at the whole thing.
After a short walk through the town, they were standing by the library. Celestia raised a swift hoof and knocked three times. The door was answered by Spike, who’s eyes widened at the sight of the Princesses and a suspicious glance at Discord.
’‘Twilight!’’ He called to the lavender unicorn.
’‘What is it Spike?’’
’‘Get down here, the Princesses are here with some weird stallion again!’’ Spike moved away from the doorway and allowed the guests to walk inside.
’‘Again?’’ Discord whispered to Luna, who’s eyes just shifted in different directions, and Celestia whistled innocently. Discord just groaned and realised that he wasn’t going to get a real answer from them. A loud thump echoed through the library and hoofsteps were heard coming down the stairs. Twilight bowed as soon as she saw the Princesses but when she saw Discord, she just looked utterly confused.
’‘Phasmatis..?’’ She looked at Discord, the questioning was clear in her tone. Both of the Princesses shared a look and stared at Discord, now it was his turn to shift his eyes around and whistle innocently.
’‘Twilight, could you please go and get your friends? This is rather important.’’ Luna tore her eyes off Discord and to the unicorn in the room.
’’Of course, they’re at the Sugarcube Corner. I was going to go there and meet them, but I can go and get them. It’ll only take five minutes.’’ With that, Twilight walked out of the library, suspiciously eyeing Discord. Discord just stared back at her with a sly grin.
’‘You.’’ Celestia turned to Discord and poked him with her right hoof on his chest. ’‘Have some explaining to do.’’ Celestia was joined by her sister at staring at Discord accusingly.
’‘Well... You see...’’ Discord explained everything from when he broke free, managing not to talk about what happened with his feathered appendages when he met Applejack. The Princesses were just nodding and listening to everything he said. Celestia looked troubled when Discord told them about when he met Twilight, Luna seemed furious when he spoke about meeting Rarity. Celestia giggled at Spike’s behaviour.
Exactly 5 minutes later, Twilight walked back into the library with her friends in tow. Pinkie Pie just bounced around the room, oblivious to the Princesses and spirit in the room. Rainbow Dash hovered inside, she was not happy about being dragged away from the Sugarcube Corner, even by a request from the Princesses. Rarity was the next to walk inside, she immediately acknowledged the Princesses and bowed but when she saw Discord who had a disgusted expression staring back at her, she gulped and hurried inside. Her eyes widened at the sight of the heavy necklace around his neck. Applejack just trotted inside and tipped her hat to the Princesses, recieving a mean glare from Rarity for being so rude. Fluttershy walked meekly inside and ended up standing behind Applejack, ready to hide if something would happen.
’‘What didya wan’t from us, Princess?’’ Applejack spoke up for the rest of her friends, as all of them were confused to why they would have to come to the library without a notice.
’‘Well Applejack, that’s because our friend here has something to tell you.’’ Celestia spat, giving Discord a look that could kill. Discord just waved a hoof at her and stuck out his tongue at her.
All of the elements was surprised at Celestia’s sudden change in her tone, and Discord’s behaviour. Rarity gasped and lifted a hoof to her mouth to cover it. Discord just chuckled at their reactions.
’’I bet she means Phish-Posh!’’ Pinkie bounced victoriously around the room, grinning from ear to ear.
’‘Pinkie darling, it’s not er... Phish-Posh, it’s Phasmatis.’’ Rarity facehoofed, Discord just shook his head.
’‘You’re both wrong.’’ Discord deadpanned. Everypony except from the Princesses gasped. Rainbow Dash was just confused, as she hadn’t met Discord in his pony form yet.
’‘Wha-... What do you mean?’’ Twilight shifted her eyes from Discord to Princess Celestia and back.
’’My name is not Phasmatis, and I guess I could say that I’m not technically a pony either. I mean really, Twilight? I thought you had some more intellect than this.’’ Discord leaned casually towards a bookshelf. Both of the Princesses glared daggers at him with their eyes. ’‘Now if you will think of somepony you’ve met. He was chaotic, looked good, is a genius and can be umpredictable. And he looks really good right now. Even your precious Princess Celestia fears his full powers.’’ Discord grinned at them, exposing his slightly sharpened tooth.
’’No...’’ Twilight shook her head, not tearing her eyes off him for even a second.
’‘Yes. ’’ Discord straightened himself from the shelf and walked closer towards the Elements. Both of the princess snapped into full attention at Discord, ready to act if he would do anything. Rainbow cleared her throat, momentarily getting the attention from everypony.
’‘Who’s this guy, and why is Twilight near to shitting herself in fear?’’ Rainbow asked innocently, carefully leaning her head to the right a little. Discord snortled and had to fight to not start laughing his flank off.
’‘He’s Discord. ’’ Twilight growled and got in a defencive stance with her horn aimed towards him. Everypony except for the Princesses gasped again, but this time with more force. Fluttershy froze and fell to her side, her legs twitching furiously. She had fainted from the shock.
’‘Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner!’’ Discord lifted his hooves and mimicked hitting an invisible bell, while rolling his eyes.
’‘Why... Why is he here?’’ Rarity asked Celestia, shaking visibly and mentally whipping herself for flirting with him. Discord groaned and flailed his arms around, to show that he was there and could ask that directly to him. Rarity pouted. ’‘Fine . Why are you here?’’
’‘Who, me?’’ Discord asked innocently in a squeaky voice while fluttering his eyelashes. 3 slaps of facehoofs, 2 gigglesnorts and 3 groans echoed through the library. ’‘All joking besides, I came here for revenge, of course. But then, ‘Ol Shiny’’ He motioned towards Celestia. ’‘Came here with her sister and stopped me before I could do anything besides socialize.’’ Another wave of gasps was brought forward, this time even from the princesses. ’‘What? You turned me to stone. That’s the least I can do to pay you back.’’ He stretched his neck. The necklace wasn’t exactly comfortable.
’‘Meh, turning to stone can’t be THAT bad.’’ Rainbow walked in front of her friends. Discord twitched and scowled, staring at the cyan pegasus. He walked towards her with malice in his steps. The princesses assumed position to strike him down. Discord stopped just infront of Rainbow, who was starting to cower away from him. The rest of the elements stood on the tip of their hooves, except for Fluttershy who was still unconscious.
’‘Not bad..? ’’ Discord growled. He stared right into the magenta eyes of the mare in front of him. ’‘Imagine the worst pain you have ever felt, and multiply it by five. ’’ Everypony in the room winced at the idea. ’‘Imagine your very skin being turned into cold, hard stone.’’ Everypony shivered. ’‘But finally, Imagine as your eyes get covered over by stone, making you blind as your intestines freeze and come to a slow stop. And then, it reaches your heart. Making it stop in an instant. ’’ Everypony felt sick, Luna was about to cry. ’‘And after the pain, there’s nothing . You cannot move . You cannot see. You can only hear your thoughts echo.’’ Discord turned away from Rainbow in a swift move, leaving her speechless. As soon as he had taken three steps away from her, a sobbing lunar princess pounded into his chest and clung to him, apologizing. Discord just looked down at her confused.
’’I didn’t know...’’ Celestia whispered.
’‘And now you know why I think you’re grim, Celestia. You ask me to apologize to those who caused me pain that is near indescribable. I can’t do that.’’ Discord relaxed and allowed Luna to rest her head on his neck. Celestia was lost in thought.
’‘Fair enough.’’ Celestia finally spoke up. ’‘But you must promise not to hurt them.’’
Discord stared at Celestia in silence for a couple of seconds, then down at Luna who was looking up into his eyes with a pleading look to accept the offer. Discord turned his head towards the elements. They looked petrified. Except for Fluttershy, who was unsurprisingly still unconscious. He finally looked down at the charcoal necklace around his neck, closed his eyes and sighed. ’‘Fine. ’’ Everypony took a breath of relief and Luna stood back up and moved besides Discord, leaning slightly towards him.
Discord knew that he had been defeated. There was no idea in trying to fight anymore. ’‘Celestia.’’ The princess he had adressed perked as the mention of her name. ’‘All I ask is a fresh start. What do you say?’’ He reached out his left hoof who still had some dried blood on the base of it. Celestia was hesitant at first, but she reached out a hoof. Discord swiftly withdrew the hoof and stroked his mane while grinning. Celestia sighed and rubbed her hoof to her face, clearly annoyed. ’‘For real this time, I promise. ’’ Discord snickered and held out his hoof again. This time, he and Celestia shook hooves. The air inside the library felt lighter as soon as they shook.
’’We should get back to Canterlot, come Luna.’’ Celestia started walking towards the door, Luna following her. Luna turned back towards Discord.
’‘You coming, Discord?’’ Luna asked expectantly. Discord looked down at his hooves and nodded, walking up to Luna. The three headed outside. Celestia’s horn flashed a yellow light and the chariot came flying towards them.
’‘Luna, why are you so dead set in being close to me ever since the fight?’’ Discord arched his eyebrow at the lunar princess.
’‘Because I know that you have some good inside you.’’ Luna sighed and looked away. She walked to the chariot and climbed aboard, with Discord following her.
Discord was lost in his thoughts. He had been tricked, defeated and humiliated by Luna. But still, he couldn’t shake the thoughts of her away from his head. It left him troubled, silently blaming his feelings for messing with him like this.
On the bright side, he can now annoy Celestia as much as he wants and get away with it in Canterlot of all places. He was going to have so much fun with her. Poor Celestia didn’t know what was coming. He grinned and leaned towards the railing, planning pranks all the way to Canterlot.
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It was the day after Discord had arrived to Canterlot. The Princesses had been nice enough to offer him a room in the castle. The door had a lock just in case something bad happened. Luna was on her way to his room, humming a tune she remembered from her childhood. She opened the door and walked inside
’‘Discord, I-’’ She stopped talking as the spirit in question wasn’t in the room. She walked inside to see if he was just hiding. The only thing she found was a note that had been left for her. The style was messy and a little weak. She realised that he had trouble writing with his mouth. But she could read it.
’’To Lu
If you walk into my room to look for me and I’m not here, I have left to have som fun with your ’‘lovely’’ sister. She didn’t seem to happy about me getting a room for myself though. I owe you one.
Oh and don’t go into the kitchen until you hear a loud boom and some splattering noises. Trust me on that one.
~D.’’
Luna wondered what he meant with the last part, but when Discord says something like that, the best thing to do is to listen. She frowned a little at the thought of the hostility between Discord and Celestia. It wasn’t really surprising that they were going to have some second thoughts about eachother. Luna just hoped that they’d get along eventually.
Luna shrugged and laid the note down on his bed again and walked out of the room, continuing her search for him.
Celestia was walking through the halls leading to the kitchen. Her thoughts was on the cocky spirit that now resided in her and her sister’s castle. She knew that he would might be planning something. She was too hungry to care at the moment, as she hadn’t eaten anything yet. She would normally ask her chefs to make her something but she’s fully capable of doing it herself. Besides, she likes cooking from time to time.
Her thoughts returned to the troublesome spirit, she didn’t know why she was thinking about him like she did. He was fascinating. Discord could go through hell and just laugh it away and make fun of others without a care in the world. Discord also scared her as he was stronger than her, even when he was weaker as a pony. The necklace was something she was glad to have manufactured. And knowing that Discord was now in her castle and had a special place with her own sister unsettled Celestia greatly.
As she came around the corner leading to the corridor where the kitchen was, the spirit in question trotted towards her while whistling a jaunty tune. Discord acknowledged her and smiled, not grinned as he always did. It was a genuine smile.
’‘Top of the mornin’, Celestia!’’ He sang, stopping in front of her.
’’Ah yes, good morning to you too, Discord...’’ Celestia was suspicious to why he was in such a good mood today. ’‘Is the room okay?’’
’’It suits me just fine. Being improned in stone for a couple of thousand years makes you less than picky about where and how you sleep.’’ Discord said nonchalantly.
’‘Good.’’ Celestia walked past him. ’‘Have you had any breakfast yet?’’
’‘Just about to actually, I was going to find Luna but I can have it with you. Come on.’’ Discord turned around and trotted past her to the kitchen. Celestia wondered what was going on, but she shrugged it away and just thought about it as Discord warming up to her.
’‘Very well then.’’ Celestia walked into the kitchen, She looked back to see Discord just standing by the doorframe, casually leaning towards it. ’‘Aren’t you coming?’’
’‘Celestia...’’ Discord looked down at his hooves, he seemed to be miserable. Celestia became a little concerned.
’‘What is it, Discord?’’ She took a cautious step towards him. Discord just looked up at her. The solemn expression had been replaced with a mischevious grin and his eyes looked like he had something planned.
’‘Boom.’’ Discord simply said.
’‘What are you-AAARGHHHH!’’ Before she had answered, all of the ovens in the kitchen blasted open, and what looked like batter of some sort splattered all over the kitchen, including the princess. She stumbled forwards, trying to come to her senses but she slipped on some batter, yelped and fell over. Discord lost it as soon as she fell. He rolled over onto his back and clutched his sides. His laughter echoed through the hall.
With a bright flash, Luna appeared next to her. The loud boom had alerted her and reminded her of his note. When she saw her sister who was trying desperately to stand up, muttering something incoherent, she lost it and joined Discord on the floor, laughing at the now very flustered solar Princess.
Discord stood up, still giggling like a schoolfilly. He walked towards Celestia, reached out a hoof and wiped some of the batter from Celestia’s chestpiece and tasted it.
’‘Perfect!’’ He exclaimed happily. ’‘Needs just a little cocoa!’’ He grabbed some cocoa off the shelf and threw it at Celestia. It exploded into a cloud of chocolate. Another insane fit of laughter escaped Discord who decided that it was a good time to run away from the now extremely irritated solar Princess before she would come to her senses. Luna tried desperately to gasp for air from laughing too hard. Tears were brimming her eyes.
Celestia’s right eye twitched furiously. She started to shudder from the rage. She hadn’t used the Royal Canterlot Voice in a long time, but this called for it.
’’DISCOOOOOOOORD! ’’ Her shout rocked the entire castle. Luna had to stop laughing to cover her ears, but she was still giggling like a madmare. Celestia teleported to her room, determined to wash it off and then search for the spirit responsible for this mess. Luna stood up, wiped her eyes and teleported away to find Discord.
20 minutes later, the batter had started to harden. That’s when a castle servant came to the kitchen in her usual round of cleaning. She sat down hard, lifted her hooves and rubbed her eyes.
’‘Fuck my life...’’ She groaned and went to work.
A couple of hours later, Celestia was in her private study room going through some papers about the economy. Celestia groaned and rubbed her eyes with her hooves. Luna was much better when it came to math and paperwork. Celestia was more diplomatic when it came to foreign relations. She perked her ears, as she heard some soft singing coming from somewhere in her room.
’’I know a song that gets on everypony’s nerves, everypony’s nerves, everypony’s nerves...’’
Celestia turned around to see nopony in the room. She turned back to her papers and continued reading. The singing started again.
’’Oh, I know a song that gets on everypony’s nerves, and this is how it goes; I know a song that gets on everypony’s nerves, everypony’s nerves, everypony’s nerves...’’
Celestia’s ears twitched. She couldn’t focus on her work or anything besides that annoying song. Celestia groaned as it continued.
’’Oh, I know a song that gets on everypony’s nerves, and this is how it goes; I know a song that gets on everypony’s nerves, everypony’s nerves, everypony’s nerves oh, I know a song that gets on everypony’s nerves, and this is how it goes; I know a song that gets on everypony’s nerves, everypony’s nerves, everypony’s nerves oh, I know a song that gets on everypony’s nerves, and this is how it goes-’’
Celestia’s right eye started twitching furiously again. She started growling. ’‘ENOUGH! ’’ The Royal Canterlot Voice seemed to work perfectly, as the singing stopped and two giggling noises came from behind her second bigger desk inside the room. Celestia used her magic and levitated the desk into the air swiftly, knocking all the papers, ink and books off it. She saw Luna and Discord staring back at her, both of them was smiling innocently and whistling.
’‘Out. ’’ Celestia hissed. The mischevious two broke out into full laughter as they trotted out the room. When they had left the room, Celestia eyed the mess, groaned and grabbed the papers she had to read and teleported to her private quarters.
A few minutes later, the same servant from the kitchen had been sent to clean Celestia’s study. Her jaw dropped as soon as she laid eyes on the great mess. She laid down and covered her head with her hooves.
’‘Fuck my life...again.’’ She muttered and went to work on cleaning the horrible mess.
Discord and Luna had retreated to Luna’s quarters for the evening. They were talking about the pranks they had pulled on her sister. They agreed to pull many more on her poor sister. Discord was lying on her bed on his back, scratching his stomach. Luna had just brought forward her night.
’‘You know what, Lu?’’ Discord turned his head to Luna, who was walking towards the massive bed-
’‘What?’’ Luna climbed up on the bed and laid down next to him, resting her head on his muscular neck. The charcoal necklace was a little in the way for her but she didn’t care. It made his eyes look much more alive in some way.
’’I think I’m really going to work on this rehabilitation thing you and ’Ol Shiny got going.’’ Luna’s eyes widened and grinned, nuzzling into his neck.
’‘That’s wonderful!’’ She cheered, Discord looked a little less than enthusiastic about it.
’’I think I should go back to my room for the night.’’ Discord started to sit up but a midnight hoof pushed him back to the bed.
’‘Please stay...’’ Luna begged, pouting a little and making her bottom lip quiver. Discord tried to look away from that face. It was no idea in trying.
’‘Fine...’’ Discord laid back down and Luna returned her head to his neck.
’‘Discord?’’
’‘Yeah?’’
’‘Sing me a lullaby like you did three thousand years ago.’’ Discord looked into her cyan orbs. Even her eyes was begging him to do it. Her eyes was just as mesmerizing as he remember them.
’‘Alright.’’
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Luna nuzzled further into his neck, waiting for Discord to start his singing. Discord glanced down at her. It was clear that she was comfortable as her eyes were closed a little and she had a soft smile across her face. Discord placed his arms around her, cleared his throat gently, started rocking her softly from side to side. He took a deep breath as he started singing.
’’She came with the spring As birds start to sing The queen of the fairies dance I joined I took the chance
Now bittersweet memories So bittersweet
A lover's dream like a star in the sky To pass away like a sweet Lullaby Tell me why did the fire die’’
Luna yawned silently, her focus was entirely on his soft voice singing clear notes. Her eyelids started fluttering but she kept them open as he continued.
’’Tell me why Like a star in the sky A soothing breeze like a sweet lullaby A lover's cry Farewell... Goodbye...
With leaves came the end The fall of a friend Tied to the wheel of time The fairies came to die
A lover's dream like a star in the sky To pass away like a sweet Lullaby Tell me why did the fire die
Tell me why Like a star in the sky A soothing breeze like a sweet lullaby A lover's cry Farewell... Goodbye...’’
Discord finished the lullaby and heard soft snoring coming from the lunar Princess. He chuckled as he saw her right hind leg twitch in a slow pace. Discord made himself comfortable by rolling onto his side, careful not to bump into her or disturb her too much. When he was finished, he was lying on his side with Luna’s head on the bottom of his chin. Her flowing mane had stopped its unnatural flowing and was now hanging down her neck. He thought that it looked much better this way, but he wasn’ about to complain.
She had removed her chest piece, crown and her silver hoofguards before she had climbed into the bed with him. Luna looked much more natural without them. She didn’t need any of those things when she was already beautiful enough.
Discord pulled her closer towards him in a protective embrace. Nothing was ever going to touch her. Even when he didn’t have any magic at all, he was going to be there. She had done so much for him 3000 years ago than what he could never repay her.
Discord squeezed her softly as he kissed her forehead. She murmured something in her sleep as soon as he touched her. He rested his head on the top of hers and was soon asleep too.
Celestia had been walking back to her room after the ordeals of that day. She had been humiliated, showered with batter, annoyed and laughed at. To top it all off, she had been forced to help some guards calm down a servant that had suddenly started screaming and throwing cake batter and ink all over the room she was in. It had been a tiring day.
As she passed her sister’s room, she heard some soft singing. She dismissed it and walked into her room. As soon as she had walked inside, Celestia instantly used her magic and levitated her crown and chest piece to a ponykin that was slightly bigger then normal ponykins.
As she laid down on her grand bed, she lifted all her hooves slightly and levitated the hoofguards away from them. The next thing she moved with her magic was the cover to her bed. She scooted beneath it and just dropped it with her magic, letting out a content sigh as it landed on her. She rolled over onto her side and placed her left hoof beneath the pillow. She fell asleep almost instantly.
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The next day, Celestia was awakened by the distinct and powerful scent of soap. She thought of it as one of the servants using a little too much soap for the cleaning again. Several joints cracked as she stretched and rubbed the sleep out from her eyes with her hooves.
She was an early riser, as she had to raise the sun for a new day to start. Celestia stood up on her low, gigantic bed and stepped off it. As soon as her front hooves touched the floor, they slid apart and made her fall helplessly towards it. Some very unflattering words that were never supposed to be said by a Princess were used to describe the spirit that was more than likely responsible for covering her entire floor with soap and had drawn a funny-looking mustache just below her nose. She tried to stand up on all four hooves but they just slid apart again and made her collapse onto her stomach.
As Luna woke up, she reached out her forelegs to embrace Discord, but she was met with nothing but air. She shot her eyes open to see that he wasn’t in the bed or in the room, but the place where he had slept was still warm. She scooted over to where he had been and placed her head on the pillow Discord had been using. She sighed and wondered where he could be this time. She was just about to sit up and go looking for him when the door opened and the spirit in question walked inside the room with a tray balanced on his back.
Discord walked up besides the bed. Luna levitated the tray off him and placed it on the foot of the big bed. Discord just hopped up on the bed, landing on his side and a giggling Princess bouncing off the bed and landing on him. That’s when Luna smelled the air around him.
’‘Discord... Do you... Is that... have you been showering?’’ As an answer, Discord smelled his arm and waved a hoof dismissively. ’‘Then what have you been using soap for?’’
Discord grinned and gave her a sly look. ’‘You’ll see and I’m pretty sure you’ll hear it too when it happens.’’ Discord shrugged and laid his head back down on the pillow he had been originally using.
’‘What do you me-’’ She was disrupted by a loud thump and an impressive amount of profanities in one sentence coming from her sister’s room. Luna looked at Discord, who was just grinning and nodding. The duo stood up and walked towards the massive golden door leading into Celestia’s room. As Luna opened it with her magic, Discord fell onto his back and clutched his sides. Luna raised a hoof to her mouth to conceal her giggling.
Inside the room, a very frustrated solar Princess was trying hard to stand upright while focusing her magic to raise the sun. She was covered in bubbles from head to tail. A slightly smeared twirly mustache adorned her face.
As soon as Celestia saw Discord lying on his back in the doorway, laughing away on her misfortune she started planning for another lunar expedition. She growled something unflattering about Discord’s mother and a donkey.
Discord’s ears perked to attention and a stern expression crossed his face. ’‘Now now young lady, that’s three words that are bad! Am I have to wash your mouth out with so- Oh wait,’’ Discord giggled. ’’I already have!’’ He stood up and motioned for Luna to walk inside. Luna used her magic and placed all of the soap and bubbles, including the bubbles on Celestia in a small forcefield and teleported it away. Celestia growled and walked towards Discord, easily towering over him. He stretched his neck to not to feel so small around her. ’‘What did you use to draw this mustache?’’ Celestia hissed.
’’A magic marker. Water. Resistant. ’’ Discord emphasized every word. ’‘Just use some stronger soap for it.’’ Discord chuckled and walked back to Luna’s room.
’‘Luna.’’ Celestia adressed her younger sister with a stern tone.
Luna gulped and looked into her sister’s eyes. ’‘Yes, Celestia?’’
’‘I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t think I can take it much longer with Discord being here doing things like this. I fear I will do something I will regret.’’ Celestia said as a matter of fact. It felt like a punch right to the nose for Luna.
’‘But... What... Where will he stay, who will help him rehabilitate?’’ Luna backed away from Celestia with her ears splayed back.
’’I am quite sure that Twilight Sparkle will offer to help if we explain the situation while leaving out any humiliating things he’s already done to me.’’ Celestia walked towards her desk and levitated an empty scroll and a quill to herself.
’‘Are you sure about that? I mean, he nearly destroyed the friendship between the Elements and tricked everypony in Ponyville to believe that he was somepony else.’’ Luna sat down and sighed. ’’I guess it will work, but I will be in Ponyville as much as I can when he’s there.’’
’‘But of course, I can’t and won’t leave you two apart.’’ A faint yellow light encased Celestia’s horn and the scroll dissappeared in a flash. ’’I said in the letter that he’d come some time today. I would go explain it to him if I were you...’’ Celestia turned to the pile of paperwork on her desk. Luna just nodded and walked back to her room where the spirit was waiting for her.
Discord was shocked at first by the news, but he wasn’t surprised to hear it. It was only a matter of time, after all.
In Ponyville, the town librarian was nervously pacing around in the main room. The Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony was coming to stay with her and Spike. Twilight didn’t know what she was supposed to do with him other than be nice to him and correct him when he was wrong. Princess Celestia had explained the necklace to her, but Twilight was still worried that something would happen. Three firm knocks echoed through the library and startled her. She stared at the door for a while before she reluctantly walked towards it and opened it with her magic. The first thing she saw was the massive necklace clamped around a greyish neck. She followed the neck up to the head slowly, gulping as she saw the crimson eyes piercing through her. Princess Luna was standing behind him.
’’Top of the morning, Twilight Sparkle!’’ Discord spat her name like it was venom. A firm silver-clad hoof smacked into the back of his head. Discord groaned and pouted while looking back at Luna, who had a disapproving expression.
Twilight gulped and moved out of the way, allowing the two alicorns to enter the library.
’‘Say Twilight,’‘ Discord spoke up. ’’Do you have any ingredients for batter?’’ Discord smirked as Luna facehoofed.
Twilight backed away from him, she realised that she may have bitten off more than she could chew.
Discord knew that he was going to have a good time with Twilight and her friends. Well, at least he would enjoy it.
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’’So Twilight Sparkle, as my sister have already told you, the necklace you can see around Discord’s neck banishes his own magic and his natural magic so he can’t use anything.’’ Luna explained one more time to the unnerved lavender unicorn.
’’I see, but I’m still a little worried that he will do something I can’t handle.’’ Twilight eyed the spirit who was going through her collection of books, occasionally scowling and throwing away a book he didn’t approve of to the floor.
’’If he’s too much trouble for you, just send a letter to my sister and she will inform me. I’ll come here then and set him straight.’’ Luna started walking to Discord.
’‘Thank you, Princess.’’ Twilight fused her magic and started levitating the littered books back to their respective places on the shelf.
’‘Discord?’’ Luna stopped next to him and nudged him with her wing. Discord turned to face her. Discord smiled weakly.
’‘What, Lu?’’
’’I have to go back to Canterlot, I have some duties to tend to. I’ll come visit when I can. You will behave when you’re here and listen to what Twilight has to say to you, okay?’’ Luna leaned closer to him and kissed his cheek.
’‘Sure thing, mom... ’’ Discord teased, recieving a swift hoof to his shoulder. He winced and rubbed the place where he had been hit, pouting. Luna just giggled at his expression and used her right hoof to flick his lower lip. Discord snortled and tried to maintain his disapproving expression. They were interrupted by Twilight Sparkle, who cleared her throat. ’‘Killjoy... ’’ Discord muttered. Luna blushed a little.
’‘Didn’t you have duties to tend to, Princess?’’ Luna’s eyes widened and she gulped. She gave Discord another small peck on the cheek and ran outside to the waiting chariot. ’‘And you...’’ Twilight’s eyes narrowed as she focused on the spirit. ’’If you cause any trouble in my library or destroy any of my books,’’ Twilight growled. ’’I will turn you into stone by myself. ’’ Discord gulped. Damn Twilight, you scary!
Discord tried to say something but the only sound coming from his was a soft whining sound.
’‘Understood? ’’
Discord nodded furiously. ’‘Since when did you become so intimidating, Twilight Sparkle?’’
’‘When my books are in danger... Oh and when my friends are in danger too...’’ Twilight grinned sheepishly. Discord just nodded in a slow pace.
’’A little chaotic, eh?’’ Discord grinned, his sharpened tooth reflected in the light. Twilight’s ears splayed back and she tried to say something. Anything she said came out slurred and hitched. Discord started laughing. ’’Don’t worry dear Twilight, you’ll never reach the level that is my personal brand of chaos.’’
That made Twilight calm down significantly. An idea struck her. She didn’t know much about the Draconequus species or about anything in the Pre-Discord era. How Equestria was before Discord ruled it thousands of years ago. And now, the spirit that ruled during that time was powerless in her own library. ’‘Say, Discord...’’
’‘What?’’
’‘Would you mind telling me about Equestria before you ruled it, and maybe about other Draconeqi?’’ Twilight made a puppy-dog look. Discord bit his lip, thinking about it. He hadn’t been in Ponyville for an hour yet but he was already bored. He decided to play along.
’’Eh, why not...’’ Discord sat down and rolled his shoulders. That necklace was extremely heavy and uncomfortable.
’‘Great!’’ Twilight squeaked and summoned a scroll, ink and a quill. She dipped the quill in the ink to show that she’s ready. Discord took a deep breath.
’‘Where to begin...’’ Discord tapped his hoof to the floor. ’’I guess I’ll start with the Draconequus race.’’ This made Twilight squee with anticipation. ’’There weren’t many Draconeqi, maybe only about two hundred. I’m probably the only one alive to this day. All Draconeqi have natural chaotic energy, or ’periculum’ if you want to use fancy words.’’ Discord laid down and continued. ’‘However, they would never use it for bad things. They were very peaceful and helpful. Well, most of them.’’ Discord grinned.
’‘You said there weren’t many Draconeqi, not aren’t . Why is that?’’ Twilight pondered.
’‘Because when I made my rise to power, they tried to reason with me and stop me. That’s why there are no other Draconeqi.’’ Discord gave her a wicked smile. Twilight just gaped at him. Discord cleared his throat.
’‘Well, after that I decided not to kill anymore to get what I needed as it makes an awful mess. There were no ponies that could stop me at that time. Lu and Tia hadn’t discovered the Elements of Harmony either. I could only beat the Draconeqi because my natural periculum was unnaturally powerful. The periculum is what made me the Spirit of Disharmony and Chaos and an immortal.’’ Discord scratched his neck with his left hoof.
Twilight was slightly appalled that he had wiped out his own species to get where he was now. She scribbled down a few words on the scroll and perked his ears to him, eager to hear more. ’‘And what about the time before you ruled?’’ Twilight readied herself to write more. Discord just shrugged.
’‘Meh, we can do that later.’’ Discord stood up and cracked a few joints. Twilight huffed and pouted. Discord turned to walk towards the door.
’’H-Hey! Where are you going?’’ Twilight sprung to her hooves and ran up to him.
’‘Out.’’
’‘And do what? ’’ Twilight moved herself in front of him, making him stop in his tracks. It was now Twilight realised how big he actually was as a pony. He was just a little smaller than Big Macintosh, but when Mac’s a gentle giant, Discord is a malevolent giant.
’‘Say ’hi’ to your friends, of course.’’ Discord kept on walking forwards, Twilight had to move away so he wouldn’t walk into her. Discord bumped the door closed with his left hindleg.
Twilight groaned as she saw him stroll down the street, ponies who knew who he truly was moved out of his way quickly, even when they knew that he didn’t have any magic.
Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie was busy pranking ponies. So far they had gotten a few good pranks on Lyra, Cherilee, Berry Punch and Clockwork. They were on their way to the library to prank Twilight when they saw Discord walking away from the library. Rainbow’s eyes narrowed and she scowled as she saw his pleased grin. Pinkie Pie was about to bounce up to him before Rainbow pulled her back.
’‘Pinkie, I know somepony that we can prank instead of Twilight.’’ Rainbow said as she spat out Pinkie’s tail from her mouth.
’’Is it Applejack?’’ Pinkie chirped.
’’No, somepony else.’’
’‘Oooh! I love guessing games!’’ Pinkie squeaked and started bouncing in a circle around the rainbow-maned pegasus. ’‘Ditzy?’’
’’No...’’ Rainbow sighed.
’’Is it Rarity?’’ Pinkie stopped in front of Rainbow.
Rainbow groaned and facehoofed. ’‘It’s Discord. We’re gonna prank Discord.’’
’‘Oooh... This is going to be fun!’’
’‘Yeah, fun...’’ Rainbow eyed Discord as he walked around a corner. ’’C’mon!’’ She grabbed Pinkie’s tail with her mouth and shot off into the air with a whooping pony after her.
After a few minutes of preparation, they had set up a trap for him. It was simple; it would throw a pie at the one who set off the trap. The victim only had to touch a wire and the trap would do its job.
Pinkie and Rainbow was waiting for the preferred victim in a bush not far away from the trap. Almost like it was timed, the spirit who had been chosen to set off the trap walked around a corner and was heading straight for the wire.
Discord was bored. The town didn’t have much to offer so he was just walking around to get a good look at the entire town. He started whistling an upbeat tune as he walked along the path. Suddenly, he felt something on his hoof. He looked down to see a tripwire on the front of his hoof.
A flinging sound was heard. His instincts kicked in and he felt something fly towards him in a high speed. Discord desperately rolled to the left. The object in question that he had now identified as a pie missed him and flew into a bush. An high-pitched groan echoed from the bush and a rainbow streak shot out from it, followed by a bouncy pink pony. Pinkie Pie greeted him cheerfully and bounced in the direction of where the rainbow had went. It didn’t take long for him to realise that the trap had been meant for him.
’‘Oh, it is on. ’’ Discord grinned and followed Pinkie Pie from a distance.
The pie that had been meant for Discord had been thrown right into Rainbow’s face. The prank had misfired but she had many more pranks to be pulled at the right victim.
That victim was Discord.
She was going to make sure to at least get one prank on him by the end of the day. It wasn’t going to be a walk in the park but it’s worth a shot. She had just cleaned her face from the remnants of the pie. She had to go to the Sugarcube Corner to get Pinkie and some supplies before she could put a plan in motion.
In a different place in town, a very pleased spirit was trotting away from the Sugarcube Corner. He had rigged another surprise to be triggered. He met Pinkie Pie who was bouncing past him and smiling. Rainbow Dash was hovering behind her pink friend and shot Discord a dirty look that Discord just smiled at. He grinned as they walked inside the bakery. He purchased an apple and leaned towards a building, facing the Sugarcube Corner and waiting for the show.
Inside the Sugarcube Corner, the two friends were in the kitchen, plotting their next move against him. Rainbow was still a little upset about getting a pie in the face the same day. Pinkie looked like she could care less as she was making a batch of cupcakes, humming a weird song.
’’I can’t believe he got me!’’ Rainbow exclaimed and threw her forelegs into the air. ’’Me! Rainbow freakin’ Dash owned by a freaky spirit! Unbelievable! ’’ She groaned and rubbed her eyes with her hooves. Pinkie Pie sighed and rolled her eyes before she turned back into her happy self.
A soft wheezing sound that was increasing in volume suddenly started. The two ponies looked at eachother and shrugged. The sound continued and Pinkie’s body started convulsing as her Pinkie Sense kicked in.
’‘SHE’S GONNA BLOOOW! Pinkie screamed and jumped desperately behind a desk. Rainbow had no idea what was going on but before she could react, it was too late.
Batter exploded from the oven, covering everything in the kitchen with a thick layer of cake batter.
Discord grinned even wider as he heard a shattering boom rock the building in front of him. He finished his apple and walked inside. The sight inside the Sugarcube Corner was much better than the one in Canterlot. He started laughing hard, tears sprung to his eyes immediately. Twilight Sparkle barreled through the door, horn ablaze. As soon as she saw Discord rolling on the floor, she knew that he had something to do with this. She walked over to where he was and peeked inside the kitchen.
The small and cozy kitchen had some kind of batter splattered everywhere. Pinkie Pie’s head suddenly rised from behind a desk. No batter had hit her, until Discord picked up a hooffull and threw it at her face. Pinkie enjoyed it and started laughing much like Discord had done when Twilight had arrived.
Rainbow Dash rolled over, she had batter everywhere. She lifted her right hoof and wiped her face clean off. She glared daggers at the now-snickering spirit. To both Discord’s and Rainbow’s surprise, Twilight started giggling. Much to her own dismay, Rainbow started snickering at the whole situation. Discord stopped laughing gradually and started walking towards the door.
’‘Chaos, two points. Harmony, zero.’’ Discord said as he opened the door. Twilight turned her head to him
’‘Where are you going?’’ Twilight asked so she wouldn’t recieve such a rude notification of his whereabouts again.
’’To meet your good friend Rarity. I have some things on my mind that I have to say to her, one way or another. ’’ Discord walked through the door and left it open as he trotted away towards the Carousel Boutique.
Twilight sighed and turned to her messy friends. They had some cleaning to do.
Discord was once again trotting through town. This time, he hoped that there wouldn’t be any disturbances to keep him away from his goal. He trotted around a corner. It was now a clear shot to the Carousel Boutique where Rarity hopefully was. Discord was going to give her a piece of his mind.
Surprisingly enough, nothing happened. No fillies crashing into him and no pegasi with their heads in the clouds. He slowed down a few feet in front of the door and cracked his neck. As it was a business, there was no need to knock. Just to walk inside. He carefully opened the door. A bell jingled, signaling that somepony had entered the building echoed through it.
’‘Coming~’’ Rarity sang from one of the rooms where she kept her fabrics and gems for her designs. Discord walked inside and glanced around the room. There was a few fully clothed ponykins and some that had unfinished projects hanging from them. Discord’s eyes widened as he saw a cloak similair to the one he had used to hide his wings when he first came to Ponyville. A loud gasp followed by a whining sound bought his attention. He turned around to see Rarity. Her eyes was wide as plates and she was shaking. Discord smirked and walked closer to her.
’‘Hello Little Miss Rarity...’’ Discord stopped right in front of her. She looked like she was about to pass out.
’‘Wha-wha-what are you doing here?’’ She glanced at the door, ready to make a break for it.
’’Oh relax, I’m not going to do anything to you.’’ DIscord nonchalantly rubbed his hoof to his chest. ’‘If I were to try, even you would be able to stop me and ’Ol Shiny would lock me up without a second thought.’’ Discord walked up to the ponykin with the cloak on.
’‘What do you mean?’’ Rarity had calmed down enough to stop shaking but she was still cautious.
Discord sighed and facehoofed. ’‘Seems like somepony haven’t paid attention to what Tia said about this thing.’’ Discord smacked the necklace, an eerie humming sound came from it momentarily. ’’It blocks all of my magic so I can’t fly or use any magic whatsoever. I can’t even walk a long distance without losing strength.’’ Discord glanced down at the hated piece of jewelry.
’’It looks good though.’’ Rarity pointed out.
’’I know right? It matches my eyes~’’ Discord battered his eyelashes and grinned. Rarity had finally loosened up enough to giggle at his joke.
’‘Perhaps you’re not such a brute after all...’’ Rarity arched her eyebrows and pouted a little.
’‘Well, ask Sunshine about that. I put soap all over her bedroom floor and made batter explode from all of her ovens when she was in the kitchen.’’ Discord chuckled at the memories, Rarity looked horrified.
’’Oh no you didn’t...’’ Rarity lifted a hoof to her mouth.
’’Oh yes I did,’’ Discord answered in a ghetto fashion. ’‘and I enjoyed every single second of it.’’ He smirked again.
’’Oh dear...’’
’‘What? It was hilarious. Even Lu laughed at it.’’ Discord pouted. The mention of Luna perked Rarity’s interest. A devious grin embraced her features.
”’Princess Luna.’” Rarity drew out every word.
’‘What about her?’’ Discord arched an eyebrow and glanced at the fashionista.
’’I am no fool,’’
’‘Pfftch-yeah, right.’’ Discord rolled his eyes and sat down. Rarity shot him a dirty look before she continued.
’’I know that there’s something between you two.’’ Rarity stretched her neck in a victorious pose.
Discord yawned and smacked his lips. ’‘Brilliant observation, Sherlock. What gave it away?’’
’’...You mean that other ponies already know?’’ Rarity’s face fell.
’‘Yup. Twilight Sparkle, Shiny and maybe a few castle servants’’ Discord poked the cloak on the ponykin.
’’Oh...’’ Rarity became lost in thought for a while before she snapped out of it. ’‘How did you two even meet?’’
”Three thousand two hundred sixty eight years ago next tuesday..’’ Discord shrugged.
’’I crawled out from my hiding place in the grove and looked around. Someone or something had just passed me. I stood up on my legs and took a quick look around. Something felt odd today.
I slithered through the air like the part-serpent I was, searching for the disturbance. I was suddenly shot out of the air by some kind of magic blast. I howled in pain and twirled down onto the field. Butterflies flew away in every direction as I crashed down. I felt a thump on the ground a few feet away from me. I refused to open my eyes as I would only be blinded. A shadow blocked the sun from my eyes. I cracked my eyes open to see a tall midnight blue figure towering over me. After my eyes had adjusted, my jaw dropped.
It was a midnight blue pony. I was always told to stay away from ponies but I never listened. I had seen ponies with horns and wings but this pony had both wings AND a horn. It looked at me like it wasn’t sure what to make of me. I stood up and the pony moved away from me with its ears splayed back. That’s when I noticed that it was a female. Her body was much more slender and she had a more supple figure than male ponies had. She was beautiful.
I winced at the pain in my back, grimacing as I pulled a stick out from it.
”Are... Are you okay?’’ Her voice was so gentle. I became entranced by it. I wanted to hear more.
”Yeah, I’m fine.’’ I grinned sheepishly, hiding every hint of pain. It didn’t look very convincing.
”You sure? I mean, taking an arcane bolt to the back has to hurt.’’
”You have no Idea’’ I whined and summoned a cotton candy cloud.
’’Is... Is that cotton candy..?’’ She stared at my cloud like it was a ghost
’‘Yeah, want some?’’ She nodded as an answer and I split it in the middle with my magic and pushed the other half to her. She tore a small piece of it with her magic and carefully tasted it. Her eyes widened after the first bite. ”Well?’’
”This is great!’’ She squeaked with excitement. ’’By the way, I’m Luna. What’s your name?’’ She poked me with her right hoof, mouth filled with cotton candy.
”Discord.’’
Rarity looked at Discord like he was a completely different pony. ”You weren’t bad...’’
”Surprising, I know. I’m still a handsome devil though.’’ Discord stroked his left hoof through his black mane. Rarity snorted and rolled her eyes.
”Puh-lease...’’
’’Is that so, Lady Rarity?’’ Discord smirked and walked closer towards her. ’’I remember by that lake...’’ Rarity’s eyes widened and her ears flattened to her skull. ’’I presume no more words are needed.’’ Discord laughed.
”Let us agree to never speak of that again.’’ Rarity panicked slightly.
”But it’s so very fun... ’’ Discord walked a lap around her. ”Remember the last time I broke free, I gave you a beautiful diamond... ’’ Rarity’s body tensed immediately and her eyes narrowed.
”Don’t.’’ Rarity warned the spirit.
”What the devil did you call it again...’’ Discord tapped a hoof to his chin. ’’Ah yes, you called it Tom... ’’ Discord grinned as Rarity growled.
”Calm down Rarity... Don’t let him get to you...’’ She said to herself as she took a few breaths to regain her composure
”Mine..! ’’ Discord imitated her the way she had shrieked and dived for the element necklace.
Rarity screamed furiously and pounced the laughing spirit mocking her.
It took a full hour until Rarity had calmed down. Discord was still snickering at her, very amused by her reaction. He was about to leave when Rarity insisted to follow him back to the library to have a little chat with Twilight about his behaviour. Discord frowned as he thought of the reprimanding he would most probably be given by Luna.
Thirty feet away from the boutique, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were standing with a modified version of Pinkie’s party cannon ready to fire at anypony leaving it. Rainbow’s hooves was itching to fire at the damn spirit. She would have her revenge.
They had modified the cannon to fire a solid explosive ball of confetti instead of a selection of party neccessities. They were going to get him good. Her eyes widened as she saw the door open. Discord was the first one to leave the boutique so she pulled the trigger. Just after the trigger had been pulled, she saw Rarity getting in the line of fire. Rainbow covered her eyes with her hooves.
Discord saw the projectile coming and pushed Rarity out of the way. She was protesting wildly, but when she saw a huge grey projectile crash into his side with a sickening crunch that sent him flying through one of her windows to her boutique, her jaw dropped. Her head whipped to see the ponies responsible. She wasn’t surprised when she saw Rainbow Dash standing next to a smoking cannon rubbing the back of her head and grinning innocently.
Pinkie Pie was suddenly standing next to Rarity and peeking through the broken window. Pinkie’s hair deflated and Rarity knew that it wasn’t a good sign.
’’Crap! BAIL! '’ Rainbow shot out into the air, desperate to get away from the scene.
A/N: Hey guys! The awesome frieD195 preread and edited this chapter and will hopefully also go through the next chapters for me before I post them.
Discord stirred awake. He had no idea of what had happened. All he remembered was pushing Rarity out of the way and was then hit by something. Everything went black after that. He cracked his eyes open but regretted the decision as the light blinded him. He took a deep breath. His ribcage hurt like it was on fire. He heard a few muffled voices.
’‘He’s waking up!’’ That annoying voice couldn’t be anypony else than Twilight Sparkle. He groaned and opened his eyes again.
He was in a hospital room. There were only basic furniture to make the room seem a little cosier than what it actually was. The elements of harmony were standing to his right side. Rainbow Dash was sitting in a corner with her back towards him. Luna was on his left side and looked like she was about to cry from joy. She wrapped her forelegs around him in a tight embrace. Discord yelped and cringed from the pain.
’‘Ribs... Ribs...’’ He croaked, clenching his eyes shut because of the pain that shot through him. Luna released him almost instantly but laid her right hoof on his hoof. ’‘Thank you.’’ He smiled weakly. He groaned as the pain from his ribcage returned.
’‘Rainbow Dash explained everything to us. It was an unfortunate accident.’’ Luna glanced at the cyan pegasus that huffed.
’‘Yeah, accident...’’ Discord rolled his eyes. ’‘She shot me with a damn cannon!’’ He flailed his arms but regretted it instantly as another wave of pain rolled through him.
’’It was meant to explode into confetti on impact.’’ Luna sighed.
’‘Really?’’ Discord arched an eyebrow.
’‘Yes,’’ Luna nuzzled his neck. ’‘but I’m glad that it wasn’t serious injuries.’’ A light green unicorn doctor with a light blue mane walked through the door. He was levitating a chart besides him. He had a fake smile that Discord saw right through.
’‘Glad to see you awake, Mr...’’ The doctor eyed the chart.
’‘Discord.’’ Luna interrupted.
’‘I’m sorry princess, but there’s no room for jokes in a hospital.’’ Luna was taken aback from the sudden disrespect from the pony. Discord’s eyes narrowed. He wondered for a while if doctors are allowed to tend to their own broken bones.
’’I am Discord.’’ Discord deadpanned. The necklace around his neck was still compact, much to Discord’s dismay.
The doctor stared at him for a couple of seconds in silence. He shook his head and looked down at the chart again. ’‘Well then, Mr. Discord... The doctor levitated a pair of glasses onto his nose. ’’A few cuts at random places... A few shards of glass on your back, cut in deep.’’ The elements of harmony cringed at the thought of having glass in their backs. Luna shuddered and scooted closer towards Discord. ’‘Aaand three broken ribs on your right side where the projectile hit.’’ The doctor levitated the chart to a desk in the corner of the room.
’‘How long will he stay here in the hospital?’’ Luna piped up.
’‘Depends on how long the recovery will take. Perhaps one week. The ribs won’t heal for about a month though.’’ The doctor shrugged. ’‘With his natural magic, it should be a speedy recovery.’’
’’I don’t have any natural magic.’’ Discord cracked his neck.
’‘What are you talking about? You have wings and a horn. Probably even earth pony magic.’’ The doctor snorted.
’‘See this necklace?’’ Discord tapped it with his hooves. The doctor nodded. ’‘Your great genius of a princess’’ Discord was heavy with the sarcasm. ’‘locked it to me and only Sunshine can remove it. It blocks out all the magic I have, natural or not.’’ Discord grunted as more pain spread through him.
’’I see...’’
’‘Now shoo, I wish to speak to Rainbow Dash about this little misfortune...’’ Discord scowled and the doctor scurried out from the room. Rainbow tensed up and turned to Discord, grinning innocently. ’‘Come closer so I can strangle you... ’’ Discord growled and everypony in the room gasped and Rainbow was about to fly away before Discord burst out laughing, hurting his ribcage even more. ’‘You should have seen the look on your faces!’’ He wiped a tear from his eyes with a hoof. ’’No seriously, come closer.’’ She took a few cautious steps towards the bed.
’‘What do you have to say for yourself, young lady?’’ Discord imitated a parent chastising a misbehaving child.
’‘Sorry for y’know... Breaking your ribs and cutting you up.’’ Rainbow shuffled her hooves. She hated apologizing.
’’Eh... Could’ve been better...’’ Discord leaned back against the board of the bed, sitting up. He recieved a swift silver-clad hoof to the back of his head and a disapproving glare from Princess Luna. ’‘Fine...’’ He sighed. ’‘Apology accepted.’’ Rainbow Dash seemed to perk up at this and lifted her head a little higher.
’’2 points for chaos, 1 points for harmony.’’ Rainbow Dash chuckled.
’’No way, this is a two-pointer. Two - two.’’ Discord scratched his neck with his right hoof.
’’I guess... First to reach five?’’ Rainbow grinned.
’‘Deal.’’ Discord smirked. His expression turned serious and into a frown.
The fire rubies on Discord’s necklace started suddenly shining in a deep, red glow. His whole body started twitching furiously. His mouth was hanging open from the shock and his eyes shot open. Luna and Rainbow Dash scrambled to their hooves and backed away from him, staring at his twitching form. His eyes started glowing like the rubies. It was now a full-on seizure. The machines connected to him started beeping furiously.
A pained scream escaped him as the same doctor from before ran inside with two nurses close behind him.
’‘Nurse! Hold him down!’’ The doctor barked to the unicorn nurse who fused her magic and held Discord down to the bed, making him unable to move but he was still twitching a little. Luna had no idea what was going on, she wanted to help but there was nothing she could do to help.
The doctor stared at one of the machines that was beeping like mad. ’‘He’s having a magic overload! That necklace must be stacking his energy and is releasing now!’’ The doctor reasoned. Luna’s ears flattened to her skull. The elements of harmony was staring at the scene unfolding, except for Fluttershy who was lying in a corner and covering her head with her hooves.
’‘Nurse!’’ The doctor called to the earth pony nurse that was busy diagnosing one of the machines. ’‘Give him a large dose of Liquid 53, stat!’’ Discord’s whole body started glowing in a slow succession. The nurse seemed shocked.
’’D-Doctor..?’’ She stammered.
’‘DAMMIT! WE’RE GONNA LOSE THIS GUY! DO IT!’’ The doctor screamed, the panic was visible in his expression. The nurse nodded and fetched a tiny bottle with a liquid that was glowing a sick green colour. She grabbed a syringe and filled it with the liquid. She inserted the needle into Discord’s neck, just above the necklace.
Discord’s seizure died down and the glowing in his eyes died. They returned to their normal crimson shine and Discord took a deep breath. His mouth was still slightly open, he looked apathetic. The rubies on the necklace stopped glowing gradually.
Luna walked slowly to the side of the bed, eyeing him. When she was standing just besides him, her lower lip started quivering and she laid her head on his neck. Discord’s left ear flapped twice.
’‘What happened?’’ Luna looked up at the doctor with tears in her eyes.
’’He had a magic overload.’’ The doctor sighed. ’’We were lucky we could stop it, if we wouldn’t have stopped it he would have died from the strain on his body.’’ The room went silent at the thought of him dying just like that.
’’How..?’’ Twilight walked to the right side of the bed.
’’I suspect that when he isn’t walking around or doing any physical activity, his energy stacks until it lashes out like this.’’ The doctor levitated the chart that he had left in the room the first time he had entered the room to him.
Discord’s eyes widened and his pupils dilated completely. A stupid grin embraced his features. ’‘Uh huh... Pretty birds’’ He grinned and looked at the rest of the elements of harmony.
Luna and Twilight looked at eachother confused. ’‘Say doctor, what was in that Liquid 53?’’ Luna asked suspiciously.
’‘Just a few magic reducing chemicals, Morphine and Anesthetics.’’ The doctor shrugged.
’‘HAH! Dicks!’’ Discord exclaimed and started bouncing on the bed in a lazy fashion.
’‘You... You drugged him?’’ Twilight glanced at the thrilled spirit bouncing around. The doctor nodded.
’‘Discord!’’ Luna exclaimed. ’‘Get a hold of yourself!’’ She shook him by his shoulders.
’‘But I don’t feel like dancing...’’ Discord whined and frowned. Luna froze for a couple of seconds, thinking about what he just said. She shook her head and decided that it was best not to argue with him right now. Discord squeaked in excitement when he brushed one of his hooves through Luna’s mane.
’’Oh for crying out loud...’’ Luna whispered to herself.
A small drop of sweat trickled down Discord’s brow. His expression was frozen, much like a Royal Guard. He didn’t even budge. The only thing that showed that he was still alive was his breathing. His eyes narrowed as he focused on his target.
He was lying on his hospital bed much similair to a cat that was about to pounce its prey at any given moment. He was deep in concentration. Nopony could disturb him right now, not even Luna, who was staring at him in disbelief. His tail swished back and forth from time to time. He licked his lips once and pounced at his target, devouring it like a savage.
His target was a cupcake Pinkie Pie had brought to him earlier. He was smacking loudly and had a satisfied expression as he munched down the sweet. He had pink frosting almost over his entire face. He looked like a giant baby.
’‘Discord,’’ Luna had a hard time deciding if this was adorable or terrifying. It was a little bit of both. ’‘you shouldn’t be jumping around like this with your damaged ribs.’’ Discord rolled his eyes and waved a hoof at her, almost losing his balance at the same time.
’‘I feel great!’’ Discord jumped to his hooves, grinning. Twilight Sparkle groaned as the spirit started poking at one of the machines besides his bed, eyes as wide as plates.
’‘You shouldn’t play with those, Discord! They’re expensive!’’ Twilight scolded. The rest of the elements had decided to leave so Discord wouldn’t do something to them in his current state.
’’I do what I want, whenever I want with whatever I want!’’ Discord frowned and crossed his arms, still wobbling a little. Luna rolled her eyes. A spark and a wisp of black smoke came from the machine. Discord became quiet and started whistling innocently. Twilight facehoofed.
’’I told you...’’ She groaned from behind her hoof.
’‘Celestia should be here in a few minutes. Perhaps she could vanquish the effects of the drugs they used?’’ Luna asked nopony in particular. Luna glanced at the spirit who was now inspecting his hooves. ’’I don’t think we should allow him to leave, Twilight Sparkle.’’ She looked straight into her sister’s student’s eyes. Twilight nodded and smiled at the lunar princess. None of them noticed Discord sneaking out through the open door.
Celestia was sitting on her chariot, she was closing in to Ponyville. Twilight Sparkle had scribbled a note, sent it to her and had told her to come as quickly as possible. It had something to do with Discord being hurt. She sighed.
’’I don’t know what my sister sees in him...’’ She rustled her magnificent wings and stood up to stretch. The chariot had landed in town and was now doing a running stop. When the chariot had stopped completely, she walked away from it and ordered the guards who had escorted her to stay by the chariot at all times.
As she walked through the town, ponies of all ages showed her respect by bowing. She just closed her eyes and nodded once to their displays. As she walked past the library, she noticed that it was empty. Not even Spike was there. They had to be at the hospital, as Twilight had mentioned something about it. After another short walk, she saw Discord prancing towards her with a bounce in his step, whistling a random tune. When he noticed Celestia, a grin that can compete with the Element of Laughter’s trademark smiles embraced his features.
’‘Shiny!’’ He squealed, bouncing towards her. Celestia’s wings spread involuntarily and she took a cautious step back.
’’Oh... Hello, Discord...’’ She took every precaution towards him, even when he was powerless.
’‘Hey Sunshine, what’s up but at the same time down?’’ Discord raised a hoof to his chin.
Celestia’s mind went blank. ’’Uh... I... I don’t know...’’ She suspected that he was trying to mislead her.
’’I don’t know either!’’ Discord sang. Celestia saw Twilight Sparkle and Luna running towards her and Discord. That’s when she realised that Discord must have ran away from them. Luna flew right into him, momentarily ignoring his injuries. Discord whooped as he rolled onto his back from the impact. He was lying on his back and Luna was standing over him with her forelegs on the respective sides of his shoulders. They were in a compromising position to say the least.
’‘Discord...’’ Luna gritted through her teeth and narrowed her eyes. Discord suddenly lifted his head without a warning and kissed her right on her lips. Her eyes widened from the shock. Twilight’s and Celestia’s jaw fell at the same time. Discord broke away, still grinning. Luna was blushing like crazy.
’’Hi Luna!’’ Discord chirped. ’’Do YOU know what’s up and at the same time down? I don’t and I’d like to know that.’’ Discord contemplated. Luna decided not to answer that question.
’‘Why did you leave the hospital like that?’’ Luna pouted.
’‘Because it’s boring there..?’’ Discord said it like everypony already knew the answer.
’‘It’s for your own good you know...’’ Luna poked his chest. Celestia cleared her throat.
’‘Would anypony please tell me what’s going on?’’ All heads turned towards to her. Twilight spoke up.
’‘Discord saved Rarity from being hit by some kind of projectile, but it hit his side and he went crashing through a window, gaining a few cuts, bruises and broken ribs.’’ Twilight shrugged.
’‘Really?’’ Celestia arched an eyebrow and looked at Discord, who was giddy with excitement as he brushed his hooves through Luna’s mane. ’‘That doesn’t explain his behaviour right now.’’
Luna lifted her head from Discord’s chest and took a deep breath. ’’I can explain that...’’
’‘Pray tell’’
’‘When he was in the hospital... He... He got a magic overload.’’ Luna’s eyes fell on Discord, who was now wiggling beneath her. ’‘The doctor was able to stop it by giving him a strange liquid called ’‘Liquid 53...’’ It made him relaxed and like this.’’ She waved a hoof towards him, making an example.
’‘Magic overload..?’’ Celestia thought for a while, until her eyes widened in realisation. ’‘The necklace...’’ Luna nodded slowly.
’‘The doctors suspect that the necklace stacks his energy until it reaches a critical point and breaks out on its own...’’ Luna sighed. ’’It doesn’t stack when he’s out walking or wasting any energy like he’s doing now.’’
’’I suppose I can release one of the bindings that contain his magic...’’ Celestia closed her eyes as her horn started glowing. She was already in deep concentration. The necklace around Discord’s neck started glowing from runic formations on it. The rubies on the front started glowing like if they were on fire. A crimson aura encased both of his wings. The ruby furthest to the right’s light started wavering, momentarily stopping glowing to just start glowing like nothing had happened seconds after. After a few more tries, the ruby stopped glowing completely and turned into the same charcoal colour the necklace itself was. The aura around his wings started disappearing gradually, until it had disappeared completely. Discord’s wings looked a lot healthier now, and didn’t droop like they had been doing when he had first recieved the necklace.
Celestia was now cleansing his body from the various toxines and narcotics the liquid they had given him contained. When she sensed his periculum, she shivered. It was like a caged monster. Thrashing, tearing and doing everything it could to escape. She quickly moved on. She couldn’t find any residue from the liquid in his body anymore. Celestia took the liberty to heal his broken ribs. She opened her eyes and released him. Discord’s eyes shot open from being half-lidded. Luna jumped off him as he stood up and brought a hoof to his mouth. He couldn’t contain it and much to the dismay of Luna, Celestia and Twilight, he vomited right in front of them.
Discord’s wings flared unconciously. He looked back at his back in a lazy fashion. He grinned as he realised that his pegasus magic had been returned.
’‘Feels good to be back...’’ Discord cracked his neck, back and wings. All of them popped and cracked in various tones. ’’Oh hey, my ribs are okay!’’ He punched one of his hooves into them to test their durability. ’‘Thanks Shiny!’’ Discord started trotting away from them. leaving them behind. Luna teleported in front of him, stopping him right in his tracks.
’’If I find out that you’re in the hospital again...’’ Luna tried to be tough, but her voice cracked by the end of the sentence.
’‘Don’t worry about it, Lu. Next time a potentially dangerous projectile is flying towards Equestria’s hope against evil, I’ll let it crash into the bitch!’’ Discord grinned. Twilight gasped from the harsh words and Celestia scowled. Luna frowned and tapped her left hoof. ’‘I’m kidding...’’ Discord quickly added. Luna seemed satisfied with the answer and nodded once, smiling.
’‘Good... Until next time...’’ Luna walked up to Discord and kissed him and stroked her muzzle across his face. Discord tensed up immediately and tried to ignore it. It wasn’t exactly the easiest thing to do. ’‘I’ll come by in a few days.’’ Luna walked away from him, swaying her hips a little more than neccessary.
’‘Daaaamn...’’ Discord bit his lips and tried to look away, to no avail. His wings snapped open. Twilight backed away from him, extremely uncomfortable at the situation at hoof.
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A/N: HELLO THERE PONYFOLK! I have something special for you~
It's a pony Discord, and a part of the reason why today's chapter is a little late. So for those who is having trouble imagining what pony Discord looks like, here he is! Please note that it is just a glorified recolour... BUT HEY! Atleast it's not made with a pony creator!
Discord shrugged with his wings. It felt great to have them back. He could finally fly again and not be grounded and without any strength at all. Celestia actually did something nice to him when he had been just a pain in the flank to her. Discord spread his wings and took off, leaving Twilight Sparkle coughing in the dust.
He kept on climbing in altitude. His horn helped him slash through the wind resistance like a knife. When he was satisfied with the altitude, Discord went into a barrel roll, spinning like a goldish-grey tornado. Discord closed his eyes so he wouldn’t lose focus and misjudge his drop. He crashed through three clouds, making them implode into a cascade of water and cloud stuff. Discord turned against the direction he was rolling and stabilized.
After a few minutes of taking it easy, he started accelerating. He was furiously pumping his wings and gritting his teeth. The wind was whipping his eyes, making it difficult to keep them open. He flew above the town, did a few flips and loops. The townsponies was looking at him in awe but one certain cyan pegasus was not amused.
Discord did one last outdrawn and lazy loop close to the ground, snapped his wings to his sides, made a backflip and landed with a great thump, kicking up more dust with his arrival. He strode out from the cloud of dust with a smirk. His mane had been slicked back from the wind, making it look kempt instead of unruly and messy. A couple of mares whistled at him as he passed them. He ignored them and kept on walking.
Discord passed Rainbow Dash and flicked his tail on the tip of her nose. She whipped her head back and growled.
’‘Hey!’’ Rainbow called after him. Discord stopped and turned his head to her.
’‘What? Want some tips on flying?’’ Discord smirked.
Rainbow growled again and gritted her teeth. It didn’t feel like such a bad idea to place him back in the hospital right now. ’‘You think you’re a hotshot in the air?’’ She puffed out her chest.
’’Oh, I don’t think I am, I know I am.’’ Discord walked towards Rainbow. ’‘I’m pretty sure I can maneuver better than you.’’
’’Oh yeah? How about a race then?’’ Rainbow walked up to him and pushed Discord in his chest. He didn’t even budge.
’‘Sounds like fun, you’re on.’’ Discord reached out his right hoof.
’’Awesome.’’ Rainbow reached out her own hoof and shook it. ’‘Good luck, you’re gonna need it...’’ Rainbow turned around and chuckled at the thought of Discord winning. There was no chance that could happen! ...Right?
’‘Hold on for a minute.’’ Rainbow looked back at him. ’‘How about we make this interesting, hm?’’ Discord smirked.
’‘What do you have in mind?’’ Rainbow was always interested in bets.
’’A bet.’’ Discord nonchalantly rubbed his hooves to the necklace. ’’If I win, you will allow me to stay in your cloud home for the rest of my time in Ponyville, and you will have to stay with Twilight Sparkle in the... the library...’’ Discord didn’t like libraries and if he would win he would get a place of his own in Ponyville.
Rainbow gulped. She didn’t know how fast Discord really was, he could have been flying in a slow pace when she saw him fly. The thought of letting Discord stay in her own home was horrifying, but staying in the library with Twilight was a nightmare come true. She’d be able to read some Daring Do books, though. Losing wasn’t an option in this case. She hesitantly cleared her throat. ’‘You’re on.’’
’‘Wonderful!’’ Discord grinned. ’‘We’ll have the race tomorrow if that’s fine with you?’’
’’I... It’s fine.’’
’‘Well then, I’ll see you tomorrow Rainbow Dash!’’ With that, Discord shot out into the air, leaving a crimson trail that looked like a weak lightning bolt behind him. Rainbow realised that this might have been a bad idea after all.
’’Sister?’’ Luna poked her older sister sitting besides her in the golden chariot heading towards their castle in Canterlot. Luna was concerned about Celestia, as she hadn’t said anything yet on the trip back. Celestia appeared to be lost in thought.
’’Hm, yes?’’ Celestia shook her head.
’‘What’s concerning you?’’ Luna placed a comforting hoof on Celestia’s shoulder.
Celestia sighed. ’‘Discord’s necklace...’’
’‘What’s wrong with it?’’
’’I just hope that the spell that locks it to him isn’t weakened when I allowed his pegasus magic to return. His periculum is like a completely different entity than what he is. It’s more dangerous, treacherous and even... murderous...’’ Celestia sighed again.
’‘I’m sure nothing can happen, I mean, I can see and feel Discord slowly changing his ways. Perhaps the necklace is converting his periculum?’’ Luna thought about it. It could be what was happening or just a mirage. She hoped that it wasn’t the latter.
’’I just... I just don’t know...’’ Celestia closed her eyes. If it was one thing she hated, that thing was not knowing what to do.
Luna was taken aback from the sudden change in her sister. Celestia was almost always so optimistic and knew what to do in almost every situation. Luna bit her lip, thinking about something to say.
’‘We’ll find out, I promise...’’ Luna pulled her sister towards her in a comforting embrace.
’’We always do.’’ Celestia smiled.
Discord was trotting through Ponyville again. He was excited for the race against Rainbow. He had always wondered if he was faster than her. He would finally get to find out. Discord heard three small voices arguing about something. He decided to take a closer look about what was causing all that ruckus.
The arguing came from the same three fillies that had crashed into him when they were riding on that scooter. It was a painful reminder. He walked up to them and cleared his throat. Three startled heads turned towards him. They looked at him like he was a ghost.
’‘What in the sweet creation of chaos are you three arguing about?’’ Discord frowned.
Three voices started rambling in an impressively loud volume. He had no idea what they were talking about when they were all talking at the same time.
Discord rubbed his temples. ’‘One at a time, please.’’ The orange filly with the purple mane, Scootaloo was it? Stepped forward and cleared her throat while glaring at her friends.
’‘My mom said that I was going to get a little baby sister or brother in a couple of months,’’ Discord gulped and his eyes widened. He didn’t like where this was going. ’’so we were arguing about where babies come from.’’ She huffed.
’’Oh...’’ Discord’s soul died a little.
’‘Sweetie Belle said tha’ babies come from a stork, ‘cause that’s what her sister told ’er but Ah said that they git th’ baby at th’ hospital.’’ Applebloom pointed a hoof at her unicorn friend. That’s when the trio got the same idea at the same time. They turned their heads towards Discord in a creepily slow fashion.
’’Mr. Discord...’’ Sweetie Belle started.
’‘Where does babies come from?’’ The three asked in unison. Discord’s ears flattened to his skull in an instant and his eyes widened, his pupils became hardly visible pricks.
’‘They... uh... where... babies... Shit.’’ Discord stammered, unsure what to do.
’‘Babies, shit?’’ Are you feeling okay?’’ Scootaloo arched an eyebrow.
’‘I’m fine...’’ Discord lied.
’’So, where does babies come from?’’ Sweetie Belle repeated the question, her eyes was the living proof of innocence. Discord would normally have enjoyed shattering minds, but they were so young. Discord saw an old acoustic guitar lying on a bench close by. An idea sprung to his mind.
’‘Wait here, kids!’’ He trotted off to the guitar and picked it up. He had no idea of how he was going to do this with hooves. He placed his left hoof to the strings on the neck and thought about a basic G-chord and struck the strings. A clear chord came from the guitar. He had no idea of what just happened, but it was good enough. He motioned with his free hoof for the girls to come closer. They happily trotted towards him.
’‘You’re gonna play a song about making babies?’’ Applebloom chirped.
’’Eh... Basically, yes. He started playing the intro of the song.
’’This is a song for the ladies But fellas listen closely’’
A few older ponies also started gathering around him.
’’You don't always have to buck her hard In fact sometimes that's not right, to do Sometimes you've got to make some love And buckin' give her some smooches too’’
A collective gasp echoed through the gathered crowd. One mare fainted.
’’Sometimes you got to squeeze Sometimes you got to say "Please..." Sometimes you got to say "Hey..."’’
The three fillies started shifting around, clearly uncomfortable. Discord took a breath before he continued.
’’I'm gonna buck you, softly I'm gonna screw you gently I'm gonna hump you, sweetly I'm gonna ball you discreetly’’
The older ponies who had fillies or colts with them covered their ears and trotted away from the singing spirit.
’’And then you say "Hey I brought you flowers" And then you say "Wait a minute, Sally" "I think I got somethin' in my teeth, could you get it out for me?" That's buckin' team work!’’
A few of the older ponies started liking the extremely inappropriate song. The crusaders ears flattened and they started gritting their teeth.
’’What's your favorite posish That's cool with me It's not my favorite but I'll do it for you What's your favorite dish? I'm not gonna cook it But I'll order it from Zebrabar’’
Twilight Sparkle thought that she heard some singing from the park, as she was trotting towards it, she heard Discord’s voice and realised it was the spirit that was singing. She grinned and sprinted the rest of the way.
’’And then I'm gonna love you completely And then I buckin buck you discreetly And then I buckin bone you completely’’
Twilight’s jaw dropped as she heard those lyrics. She was about to scold him and tell him to stop singing immediately. Discord took a deep breath and started banging his head.
’’But then I'm gonna buck you haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard!’’
As Discord played the last chord, he opened his eyes and looked at the now deeply disturbed fillies besides him. Their eyes were distant and unfocused. They didn’t say anything and their ears flapped from time to time.
’‘DISCORD!’’ The force from Twilight’s shout made Discord tip backwards and fall onto his back. She made a very nice imitation of the Royal Canterlot Voice.
’’Ah crap...’’ Discord sighed. He was in trouble now.
’‘Heh... Hello, Twilight Sparkle.’’ Discord waved sheepishly. Twilight snarled.
’‘What do you have to say for yourself?’’ Twilight snapped, glancing at the now less than innocent fillies occasionally twitching.
’’...They wanted to know.’’ Discord smiled weakly. Twilight scoffed and rolled her eyes.
’‘Yeah, right! As if young fillies like them would ever ask about something like that!’’ Discord frowned and clicked his tongue.
’’As a matter of fact, they did.’’ Discord whistled, gaining the attention of a mare who was walking away from the scene. ’‘You heard those three fillies over there,’’ Discord pointed a hoof at the twitching crusaders. ’‘say something about wanting to know where babies come from, right?’’ The mare nodded slowly. Discord smirked and turned back to Twilight with a confident smile. ’‘See?’’
’’I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am...’’ Twilight sat down. ’‘But you still could have been a little more subtle about it, you know?’’ Twilight playfully punched Discord in his chest.
’‘Aw, where’s the fun in that?’’ Discord pouted and Twilight giggled.
’‘You’re still in trouble though.’’ Twilight narrowed her eyes and stared at him.
’‘Well shit...’’ Discord sighed. ’‘Can’t we make a deal?’’
’‘Nuh-uh, I don’t deal with a draconequus.’’ Twilight shook her head.
’’...I find that a little racist’’ Discord arched an eyebrow at Twilight, whose eyes shot open.
’‘I’m not a racist!’’ Twilight furiously shook her head.
’‘Suuure...’’ Discord grinned. Twilight bit her lip and her ears flattened to her head. Discord started snickering and Twilight shot him a look that could make a small animal explode. Discord gulped.
’‘Now come on.’’ Twilight stood up and used her magic to grab Discord’s right ear. Discord made a small whining sound as she started pulling it, leading him to the library. Discord was forced to hold his neck down a bit so he wouldn’t strain on the hold she had. If he did it, it would only pull even harder.
’‘This is humiliating...’’ Discord groaned. ’‘What’s with you ponies humiliating others?’’
’‘What’s with you and humiliating others?’’ Twilight shot back instantly. Discord was forced to think for a while, before he sighed.
’’...Touché’’ Discord rolled his eyes. ’‘You know, I could just grab you and fly a few thousand feet up in the air and drop you from that altitude...’’ Discord smiled, his sharpened tooth shimmered in the light.
’‘What do you think Celestia and Luna would do to you then?’’ Discord froze; the pulling in his ears brought him back to reality. He shuddered from the thought and walked closer to the now very irritating librarian. ’‘Besides, I’m going to send a letter to Luna describing what you did to the crusaders.’’ She felt a sudden tug on her magic connection and looked back to see Discord digging his hooves into the ground, trying desperately to get away from her and the inevitable scolding from Luna.
’‘Nonononono...’’ Discord did his best to crawl away from her. He looked back to see Twilight staring at him, very amused. ’‘You know, if you like the view from back there you should at least buy me dinner first...’’ Discord wiggled his flank and grinned as Twilight blushed profusely and lost focus on her magic. Discord took the opportunity and spread his wings, ready to take off.
Twilight was able to compose herself just in time before Discord flew away. Discord saw a purple aura engulf him and lift him off the ground. He was brought in front of Twilight Sparkle, who continued her trot towards the library. Discord pouted and crossed his arms, thoroughly unamused by the lavender unicorn’s treatment.
’‘When I didn’t think it could get any more humiliating...’’ Discord huffed and frowned.
’’At least we’re at the library now!’’ Twilight beamed as the large tree came into view. She lowered Discord so she could levitate him into the library without him hitting his head. As she walked into the main room of the library, she grinned as she saw Applejack, Rarity and Scootaloo’s mother. The three mares all scowled as they saw Discord being levitated inside. Discord’s back was turned towards them. ’‘And look, we have some guests!’’ Twilight exclaimed happily as she turned Discord to face the agitated mares.
Discord’s eyes widened and his pupils shrunk. He started struggling in vain against the magic bond that kept him contained. The aura disappeared and Discord ungracefully dropped to his flanks. ’‘Gee, thanks...’’ He rolled his eyes, rubbing his flanks with his forelegs.
’‘I’m going to go and write a quick letter to Princess Luna about this, you girls can start with him.’’ The three mares in front of Discord turned to Twilight and smiled, but when they turned back towards Discord, their expressions darkened.
’‘Ladies...’’ Discord nodded and grinned sheepishly.
’‘What didya do to mah sister?’’ Applejack growled, Discord flinched.
’’I... I may have taught them about the birds and the bees...’’ Discord cleared his throat. ’’My way.’’ The mares in the room gasped in unison.
’‘What did you wish to achieve with that, hmm?’’ Rarity snapped.
’‘Enlightening young minds, of course!’’ Discord claimed victoriously and twirled a hoof in the air.
’‘...what?’’ Applejack scratched a hoof to the back of her head.
’‘They asked me where babies come from, so I answered their question. It may have been an overkill, but maybe they’ll stay away from it.’’ Discord shrugged. ’‘Who knows?’’ The mares seemed to think about it for a while, until Scootaloo’s mom spoke up. She was a white pegasus with a light blue mane.
’‘Well, he spared me the awkward moment of telling Scootaloo about it.’’ Discord stretched his neck and grinned. ’‘I’m still not happy about it, though...’’ Discord’s face fell.
’‘Same here, it’ll still be awkward but Ah’ll power through.’’ Applejack tipped her hat back. ’‘But if Ah ever hear ‘bout ya talkin’ to mah sister ‘bout anything adults do, Ah’ll rip yer wings off...’’ Applejack growled, Discord gulped. He knew that Applejack probably had the strength to do that to him. Applejack motioned for the pegasus in the room to follow her outside, leaving Rarity with him.
Rarity was just staring at him with her big azure eyes, scanning his features. Discord nervously shuffled his hooves and coughed awkwardly.
’‘Hello, Rarity.’’ Discord smiled weakly, blowing a strand of hair away from his face.
’‘Just because the others is okay with this, doesn’t mean that I am okay with it.’’ Rarity frowned.
’‘Heh yeah, I’d understand if you as a sibling would want to keep her safe. I’ve seen it all before.’’ Discord waved a hoof dismissingly.
’’If this has anything to do with when I met you by the lake, I-’’
’‘When did you meet him by the lake?’’ Twilight had walked inside the room just as Rarity had started talking. Rarity jumped slightly, startled by the sudden intrusion. Discord beamed and his eyes lit up. This was going to be interesting.
’’I...’’ Rarity searched for what to say to her friend. Discord cleared his throat.
’’I met Miss Rarity two days before I was discovered by the Princesses; she was by the lake when I was taking a much needed bath. One thing lead to another and dragon-boy was also involved, it ended with Rarity flirting with me and me obliterating a small patch of the Everfree forest.’’ Discord stroked a hoof through his black mane. ’‘Can’t blame her for liking this...’’ He grinned slyly.
Rarity growled as her face turned red with bottled up anger. ’’I thought we agree-’’ She was interrupted by Discord.
’’Au contraire, milady, I never agreed to anything.’’ Discord stated.
Twilight just stood on the spot, her mouth was slightly agape and her vision was focused on something inexistent. Her friend Rarity had flirted with the Embodiment of Chaos, who was also the lunar princess’ coltfriend. And the thought that he had easily destroyed a piece of the Everfree forest shocked her. All in one day. The fashionista and the Spirit were still arguing.
Discord pouted and stuck out his tongue at Rarity, who gasped at the childishness of the spirit in front of her. Rarity’s eyes widened as a navy aura engulfed his tongue and started pulling it towards the door. Discord was also surprised at the sudden interruption. He stared cross-eyed at his tongue, sliding across the library floor towards the door, where a very annoyed princess was standing. Discord noticed Luna standing in the doorway and tried to run away, but to no avail.
’‘Four hours, Discord.’’ Luna frowned. ’‘You couldn’t stay away from trouble for four hours.’’ Discord tried (and failed miserably) to act innocent. His shoulders slumped as Luna scowled.
’‘I’m showhy...’’ Discord talked with his tongue out. His hooves seemed very interesting at the moment.
’‘Sometimes I doubt that you even try to change...’’ Luna sighed and turned away from him, releasing his tongue. Discord licked his lips; her aura had a very distinct taste of blueberries and licorice. Discord walked up to her and placed his left wing on her back. Luna leaned away from him at first, but eventually leaned to him and sighed again.
’’I do try...’’ Discord said in a soft tone. ’‘It’s just so hard to change when I have lived and suffered with this for about three thousand years... I try my hardest, but I always fall back in my old behaviors.’’ Discord held her closer towards him with his wings. ’‘But... But I will try harder, I promise...’’
Rarity wiped a tear from her face as her lower lip quivered from the scene in front of her. She gasped in surprise as Luna kissed Discord. Twilight looked away from the two immortals, slightly embarrassed from the display.
Luna broke the kiss and took a breath. She felt like she could trust him with this. He would never want to lose her, she knew him so well that he would never do such a thing. And when Discord makes a sincere promise, he will never break it.
Discord knew that he had to change, but it is so hard to change when the periculum formed him after its own morbid picture of perfection in chaos. But if he would risk losing Luna, he was going to do everything he could to change his ways. It was going to take a lot of time to do so, but it would be worth it in the end. He glanced out the window to see the sun setting for the night to be brought forward. Luna had already noticed and was walking out the door to perform her duty. Discord trotted after her, leaving the two unicorns in the library.
’‘Lu!’’ Discord called after her. Luna turned her head towards him.
’’I have to go back to Canterlot for the night. You know that...’’ Luna forced a weak smile.
’‘You don’t have to go... I know a place here in Ponyville that is elevated. You can raise the moon from there.’’ Discord pleaded. Luna thought about it for a couple of seconds, until she made up her mind.
’‘Okay...’’ She walked up to Discord and nuzzled into his side. Discord placed his right wing on her back and started walking towards the park. The town was quiet; almost nopony was out at this hour. In the park, Discord lead them to a steep hill with a single oak tree on the top of the hill. Luna closed her eyes and focused her magic.
It looked like her mane blended into the night sky and the stars in her mane spilled out into the sky, placing them in carefully planned patterns across the sky. When she brought forward the moon, her eyes opened and shined in the same silver light as the moon itself.
Discord stood in awe and stared at the display. He couldn’t look away from the breathtaking sight. As the night was finally brought forward, Luna sighed in relief and smiled at Discord’s expression. ’‘Never gets old, huh?’’ Discord shook his head in a dumbstruck haze. Luna laid down on the ground with her forelegs beneath her. She motioned with her head for Discord to come closer. He walked up to her and laid down besides her. Luna leaned towards him and stroked her muzzle just beneath his right eye. Discord’s ear flapped involuntarily and flicked Luna. She giggled and leaned closer towards him.
Discord draped his strong foreleg around her, holding her close. After a few minutes, Luna pushed him onto his back, surprising the spirit. She climbed onto him and kissed him with force. They soon gave into the night and the desires that follow with the night.
They boinked, in other words.
The next morning, Luna wiggled her way out of Discord’s embrace and went to work with making way for her sister’s sun and day. She hadn’t felt this relaxed in years and she had that to thank the spirit who was snoring softly while nibbling on his own mane at the moment.
As she had finished her task, she stretched her body and made a few joints crack from sleeping on such a rough surface. Discord seemed used to it, though. She laid down beside him again, sighing as she felt his warmth wash over her again.
She suddenly felt and saw two goldish-grey forelegs drape around her and pull her closer. Luna started giggling like there was no tomorrow as Discord rolled onto his back, still holding her close. Luna’s eyes widened in realization as she thought of Celestia coming to her room to find nopony there.
’‘Well?’’ Discord simply asked.
’‘What?’’ Luna was a little puzzled from the sudden question.
’‘Was it worth staying the night here?’’ Discord squeezed her a little.
’‘Extremely worth It.’’
’‘You should go back to Canterlot, so Shiny will know where you are...’’ Discord stated sullenly.
’’I guess...’’ Luna climbed off him and stood up. Discord stood up, but in a much slower progress. Joints cracked like an orchestra when he stretched his back and wings.
’‘Then go, I’ll be fine.’’ He smiled.
’‘Okay then.’’ Luna embraced him one last time before her horn started glowing and teleported her back to Canterlot, where her sister was probably waiting for her.
Discord sighed as Luna teleported away. He still had a few hours to kill before the race against Rainbow Dash, so he figured that he’d might as well do some basic practice routines so he’d be ready. Discord flared his wings and shot out into the air like a crimson lightning bolt.
It was now around noon and Discord was waiting for his opponent on a field just outside of Ponyville. It was the same field that Luna had tackled him, on and the same field where he fought the royal sisters.
Discord saw a rainbow streak closing in, doing a few loops, flips, and barrel rolls on the way to him. On the dirt road out from Ponyville, four other ponies were walking towards him. When they came closer, he noticed that it was the Elements of Harmony minus one. Applejack wasn’t amongst them; she was probably working on her family’s farm.
Rainbow did one last loop before she landed on the ground in front of him with a thump, puffing out her chest and grinning like a madmare. Discord faked a yawn and brought his left hoof to his mouth. Rainbow’s right eye twitched. When the rest of the elements had gathered, Discord, Fluttershy and Rainbow started changing cloud formations into a basic track that they were going to race around. Fluttershy was going to be the starter.
The non-pegasi on the ground were looking at the progress of the work from below. Pinkie Pie was hollering to Discord to move a cloud a little to the right. Twilight Sparkle and Rarity rolled their eyes in unison from the display of their hyper pink friend. Twilight was going to be the judge, making sure that the challengers don’t cheat or do any nasty business against each other during the race.
When all of the preparations were done, Rainbow and Discord placed themselves by the start/finish line. Discord cracked his neck from side to side and flared his wings, grinning from ear to ear. Rainbow stood beside him, preparing for take-off. She experimentally flapped her wings twice and started grinding her left hoof to the ground. She growled quietly. She HAD to win this.
Fluttershy hesitantly flew to the start line, holding a checkered a flag in her mouth. She was shaking like a leaf in a storm. She lowered her head while clenching her teeth down to the handle of the flag. She was shaking a lot more now than before. When she flicked her head back up, she stumbled backwards from the violent winds that was brought forwards from the ponies flying away at breakneck speeds.
When Discord left the start line, a sound that was similar to a crack of lightning echoed through the field, momentarily stunning everypony on it. Rainbow Dash flew into the sky with her standard rainbow streak. A crimson lightning followed Discord wherever he went.
Rainbow’s start was much faster than Discord’s but he was catching up to her when they were flying in a straight line towards the first hard right. They were flying besides each other into the first turn, but Discord was able to inch himself into the lead and placed himself in front of Rainbow, blocking her path of flight. Rainbow cursed to herself and moved away from the draft behind him. They were neck in neck as they approached the next turn, a soft left. This time, Rainbow was able to get in the lead.
Discord growled, he doubled his thrusts and was now just besides her again. It was a long straight run towards the last turn, which was a full 180 degree turn and also a straight shot to the finish line.
With the help of his horn cutting through the wind, he was able to get in the lead again, much to the dismay of Rainbow Dash. Discord was now a few feet in front of her, the last turn was going to be a difficult one considering the speed he was in. He held out his wings to their full extent and went into the last turn sideways; it gave him the boost he needed to get a comfortable lead.
Rainbow Dash on the other hoof, was not pleased with the fact that she was about to lose. She started pumping her wings like never before and she was coming closer with every thrust.
But it was too late.
Discord had already passed the finish line, just as Rainbow was going to pass him. Discord did a long, lazy loop to slow down his momentum so he could land safely. As soon as he touched down to the ground, his legs buckled from the pure effort he put into winning this race.
Discord was almost too tired to care that he had won; he rolled over onto his back and closed his eyes. He could hear the frustrated scream from Rainbow Dash. She was probably not good at handling a loss. He chuckled and took a few deep breaths. As he was about to stand up, a shadow blocked the sun. He looked up into the magenta eyes of Rainbow Dash. She looked down at him and frowned. She extended her right hoof. Discord reached out his own hoof held onto Rainbow’s. She helped him stand up.
’‘Dude...’’ She took a deep breath. ’‘THAT WAS AWESOME! WHERE DID YOU LEARN THAT LIGHTNING THING?’’ She shouted to him, Discord had never seen her this excited.
’’I dunno, I guess it’s natural when I’m a pony; like your rainbow streak.’’ Discord shrugged.
’‘Makes sense...’’ Rainbow nodded slowly, glancing at her own rainbow tail ’‘Still, that was pretty cool.’’
’’It was.’’ Discord stretched his now very sore wings. ’‘Remember our bet?’’ Discord smirked. Rainbow’s ears drooped, but she shook her head. A bet’s a bet. She made it and she lost. She couldn’t do anything about it now.
’‘Yeah... Come on, I’ll show you ‘round it.’’ Rainbow flared her wings.
’’Uh... Later...’’ Discord groaned as it felt like his wings started thumping on their own. ’‘I’m a little sore...’’ As if on cue, his stomach growled angrily. ’‘And hungry...’’ Discord grinned sheepishly.
’‘Sure, we’ll get something to eat and then we’ll go, ‘kay?’’
’‘Seems fair.’’ Discord shrugged and started walking back to town, ignoring the chatter from the Elements of Harmony asking him too many questions for his liking.
A/N: Preread and edited by the awesome Wolfy Hige! Also, holy cow, longest chapter yet!
A/N: Yay, edited version! Edited by frieD195 !
After a quick snack at Sugarcube Corner, Discord and Rainbow Dash left the rest of the girls and flew to her exquisite cloud home. Discord was impressed by the sheer size of it, he realized that she must be one of the big-shots in the Ponyville Weather Patrol if she could afford such a house. Rainbow had shown him the bedroom, the bathroom and the living room. As the two walked into the kitchen, Discord spotted a big green lump who was trudging towards Rainbow.
’’Do you have a walking coffee table?!’’ Discord beamed. ’’I want one!’’ Rainbow seemed puzzled until she realized that he was speaking about Tank.
’’Uh... No, that’s Tank,’’ She nuzzled the green giant on its head. ’‘he’s my pet.”
’‘Your pet is a turtle?’’ Discord deadpanned.
’‘Tortoise.’’
’‘Whatever, how can it walk on clouds?’’ Discord poked Tank’s shell a few times for good measure.
’‘Twilight put a cloudwalker spell on him. She just has to re-new the spell once a month.’’ Rainbow shrugged.
’’I see...’’ Discord glanced at the tortoise who smiled at him.
’’So Discord...’’ Discord turned his head to Rainbow, who sheepishly kicked the cloud floor.
’‘Yeah?’’
’‘If I would have won, what would I have gotten for winning?’’ Rainbow flicked a rainbow bang from her face.
’‘The honor of saying that you’re faster than the Element of Chaos, avoiding sleeping in the library for a few weeks and I would’ve asked Luna to get you a private audition for the Wonderbolts.’’ Discord rubbed a hoof on the necklace, making it hum.
Rainbow didn’t say anything to him. She just stared at him with her jaw hanging open. She suddenly closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths. She hated losing but this was a punch to the muzzle. After a few more deep breaths, she opened her eyes and looked straight at Discord, who had crooked his left eyebrow.
’‘You okay?’’ Discord asked hesitantly.
’‘I’m fine.’’ Rainbow nodded.
’‘Really?’’
’‘Yes, really.’’
’‘Well then, if you will excuse me, I’m going to let you pack some of your stuff while I go somewhere and do nothing at all.’’ Discord spread his wings and trotted to the door.
’‘Alright...’’ Rainbow sighed and grabbed her saddlebag, collecting a few things she didn’t want to leave with the mischievous spirit.
Discord laid down on a cloud above the town, stretching his back and reminisced about the week that had passed.
In less than a week, he had been turned into a pony by some weird spell, which may or may not be permanent. He’d been in an awkward moment with almost all of the elements, avoided being fried from one of Shiny’s spells, kicked both of the royal sister’s flanks, been drained of all of his powers by an irritating necklace, annoyed the living hell out of Celestia, reunited with Luna and rutted her silly, nearly died, got high from a dangerous substance, scarred three little fillies and the list goes on.
Discord grinned as he thought of everything he had done during the days of being free from his prison. He giggled to himself as he recalled Celestia’s expression when the batter exploded from the ovens and Luna’s expression when she saw her own sister slip around on the soap.
’’Luna...’’ Discord closed his eyes.
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’‘Luna... That was the pony’s name that I met on the field. I have to meet her again somehow but... But I don’t know where to find her... Maybe she will come back to the field to look for me? I’ll just have to wait.”
“I have been waiting for two days now. Where is she? The night is falling again, but this time something flies across the sky. It’s midnight blue... Luna! I spread my wings and fly after her as fast as I can. She’s fast. Most ponies I have seen can’t fly this fast, and why is her horn glowing like that? Well, one way to find out...”
I fly up to her and am now flying next to her. I call out her name, she turns to me and looks surprised, but then horrified as her horn stops glowing. It starts glowing again instantly after she noticed it. She doesn’t look that happy, though... I fly besides her in silence, not daring to say another word so I will disturb her again.
Her horn finally stops it glowing, she looks relieved but then she looks at me. She doesn’t seem happy... She’s angry with me.
’‘What are you doing here!?’’ Why is she accusing me? I just wanted to see her...
’’I... I saw you fly past the field and... and I wanted to say hi...’’ I rub my eagle talon to my lion arm. What did I do wrong? ’’I guess I’ll just go away...’’ I turn away from her and start flying in the other direction. A sudden tug on my shoulder makes me turn around. It’s Luna. She looks sad now. I don’t like seeing her sad.
’‘I’m... I’m sorry Discord...’’ She looks down towards the ground. I extend my eagle talon and lift her head to look at me.
’‘Don’t be sad... I don’t like seeing you sad...’’ She perks up and smiles a little.
***
It’s now four years from when the first time I met her. We’ve only seen each other ten times over the years, but we’re close. She helps me control my bad side. My bad side wants to hurt ponies, but I don’t want to hurt them.
Luna once told me about her sister, Celestia. She doesn’t seem like such a nice pony. I don’t think I want to meet her; she’ll probably not like me at all...
’’I won’t be when you’re here...’’ She giggles. By the grace of the gods, how I love her laughter... She flies closer towards me and holds out her arms. I accept the invitation and scoop her up with my arms. She starts laughing.
’’Oh, good!’’ I smile as she laughs.
’’‘Discord...’’ She sighs and pushes away from the embrace.
’‘What is it?’’ Why is she so concerned?
’‘Celestia...’’ She looks like she’s about to cry. ’‘Celestia has been keeping track of my movements over the last few weeks, I think she’s suspecting something.’’
’‘Don’t worry, she won’t break us apart...’’ I hope...
Discord had fallen asleep on the cloud, the fatigue from the night’s gymnastics and the race had made him miss a lot of much needed sleep. So here he was, sleeping away most of the day. But on the ground below, three ponies was staring at the unruly black tail hanging from the cloud’s edge.
’‘Fluttershy, you’re going to have to go up there and wake him up.’’ Twilight stated as she shifted her eyes to her timid friend.
’’If... if you say so.’’ She nervously spread her wings and looked up at the cloud.
’‘Princess Celestia said that it was important, so we have to speed things up!’’ Twilight stated as her horn started glowing. The cloud that Discord was lying on started glowing in a weak purple aura. She pulled the cloud down to the ground.
Discord was lying on his back, his mouth was slightly open and his right hind leg twitched. He rolled over onto his left side, facing them and started nibbling on a piece of his mane that fell into his mouth as he rolled. He started murmuring about cotton candy and something incoherent.
The girls were forced to suppress their squeals of delight as they saw the spirit sleeping like a newborn foal, but much bigger and more dangerous. Twilight walked up to the cloud and poked Discord. He shifted and groaned.
’’Go away...’’ He raised his hooves to his head.
Twilight sighed and poked him again but with more force.
’’I said, go away...’’ Discord growled. Twilight groaned in frustration and motioned for Fluttershy to wake him up. Fluttershy walked meekly to the cloud and peeked over the edge of it. She turned around and bucked the cloud which had risen in altitude.
’‘WHAT THE FU-’’ Discord wailed and flailed his arms. His eyes shot open and he grunted as he made contact with the ground. He looked around to see three of the Elements of Harmony around him. ’’Oh, it’s you three...’’ He groaned and stood up while stretching his back. ’‘What do you want?’’
’‘Look for yourself,’’ Twilight levitated a scroll to him and held it in front of his head so he could read it ’‘Celestia wants you in Canterlot.’’ Discord raised his left hoof to his head and groaned.
’‘Those fools...’’
’‘What are you talking about, darling?’’ Rarity arched an eyebrow.
’‘The Discordant Anarchy.’’ Discord rolled his eyes. ’‘They are a group of ponies, griffins and diamond dogs who rebel against their respective systems and believe that I support them.’’ He sighed. ’‘They are often violent, unreasonable and dangerous.’’
’‘Wha- what do they want?’’ Twilight bit her lip.
’’If I’d guess, I’d say that they want me.’’ Discord shrugged and flared his wings. The mares gasped and Fluttershy hid her face in her mane.
’‘What are you going to do?’’ Rarity spoke up, visibly shaken by the revelation.
’‘Talk.’’ Discord shot out into the air, heading for Canterlot.
As Discord touched down in the royal garden, several ponies, griffins and a few diamond dogs turn their heads towards him. All of them bowed to him as he passed them on his way into the castle. From the corner of his eyes, he saw something fly towards him. He turns his head to see Luna. She looks relieved to see him when she lands beside him. As Luna trots towards him, Discord can’t help but to smile.
’‘Nice little crowd you’ve gathered...’’ Discord glanced around the garden. Almost everyone was staring at him in wonder.
’’Oh hush.’’ Luna pushed him playfully in the chest and moves beside him.
’’I presume that their leader wants to talk to me.’’ Luna nodded as an answer and sighed.
’‘They want you to... To leave with them and lead them.’’ Discord scoffed.
’’I don’t even want to acknowledge their existence, and they actually want me to lead them?’’ Discord rolled his eyes. ’‘They’re stupid.’’
Luna giggled and moved closer towards Discord as they walked down the massive castle halls. Discord held his head higher when Luna leaned towards him. The servants inside the castle whispered to each other as Luna and Discord passed them. They ignored them and walked into the room where Celestia and the leader of The Anarchy were waiting.
Inside the room was a simple circular table and luxurious chairs with soft, red padding. On the walls hung banners picturing the sun and the moon. Sitting across Celestia was a dark brown unicorn stallion with a white mane. He was wearing a black plated armor with gilded edges. On the chest was the same mark as Discord’s cutie-mark, but it was golden and had two spears crossed in it. The stallion’s golden eyes widened at the sight of Discord. He abruptly stood up and bowed as much as he could.
’’My lord.’’ The stallion’s deep scratchy voice echoed through the room.
’‘Rise,’’ Discord motioned with his hoof for the stallion to stand ’‘What is your name?’’
’‘Captain Black Rush, my lord.’’
’‘Alright, Captain Douche,’’ Discord cleared his throat. ’‘You can take The Anarchy and leave. I will not lead any of you.’’ The captain seemed taken aback by this, as he didn’t expect this scenario.
’‘We can give you your powers back.’’ The captain rolled his shoulders. Discord stared at him in silence. The Princesses gasped.
’‘And how will you do that, hm?’’ Discord leaned casually towards the table.
’‘Like this!’’ The captain pounced Discord with his horn blazing in an eerie white light. The horn cut through the necklace like it was a thin piece of paper. Celestia got in a defensive stance in front of Luna, who was screaming Discord’s name.
Discord was almost too shocked to breathe. He felt the tip of the horn brush against his throat. Captain Douche was grinning from ear to ear as he felt the last barrier of the necklace crumble from his sudden impact. With a crack, the necklace split in two.
Celestia couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw the pieces drop to the castle floor. A crimson mist started flowing around Discord, engulfing him. Discord screamed from the sudden pain and Celestia was forced to hold Luna back who was set on killing the captain who started this.
When the crimson mist disappeared; Discord was clenching his eyes shut and a crimson and yellow aura blazed to life on his horn. Discord stood to his full length and turned towards Celestia and Luna. Celestia and Luna gasped as they saw his eyes.
They were the same colour they were when he was a draconequus. Even his pupils were mismatched again.
’‘Hello, my dear Celestia...’’ Discord hissed. His voice was also the same as when he was a draconequus. ’’I think it’s time I got even!’’ Discord shouted and charged towards Celestia.
Celestia could barely avoid being skewered by Discord’s horn. Celestia squared her shoulders and got in a defensive stance in front of Luna, charging her magic. The captain was still grinning. Celestia charged towards Discord. He teleported away just before Celestia’s horn would impale him.
Discord started laughing and cracked his neck from side to side. Luna just stared at him in utter disbelief. She had no idea why his attitude would suddenly change like this, unless his periculum and his true self are two different entities. It was the only reasonable theory she could think of at the moment.
Celestia and Discord started circling eachother. They never broke their eye-contact with eachother. Discord suddenly stopped. Celestia was cautious and never lost her focus. Both Discord’s and Celestia’s horns flared to life. Discord charged again towards her, surprising her. Discord headbutted Celestia, temporarily disorienting the solar princess.
Discord took the opportunity and shot four magic blasts at her. Celestia sensed them coming and raised a barrier just in time. She slid back a few feet and Discord charged yet again.
Discord flew right into the barrier, breaking through it. Celestia sidestepped and slashed towards him with her horn, temporarily using her horn as a blade. Discord snickered and avoided every slash with ease. He jumped and rolled to his left and flared his wings, shooting towards Celestia like a crimson lightning bolt. Celestia panicked and raised her left leg to block him. Discord did a barrel roll and gave Celestia a powerful uppercut. Celestia was lifted into the air from the blow and grunted in pain. When she made contact with the ground again, her once perfect alabaster coat was now dirty and stained with her own blood.
’‘Why do you even try, Celestia?’’ Discord mocked her.
’‘Harmony will always prevail.’’ Celestia croaked as she tried desperately to stand up. Discord walked up to her and stomped on her right front leg. A crack from the bone echoed through the room. Celestia yelped in pain and gritted her teeth.
’‘Wrong...’’ Discord growled. ’‘Chaos is the last thing to ever cease existing. What happens when ponies leave their duties? Chaos. What happens when something out of the ordinary happens? Chaos. What will happen once I get rid of you, Luna and the Elements of Harmony?’’ Discord leaned down towards Celestia and whispered into her ear. ’‘Chaos... ’’
Discord turned around and walked away from the fallen solar princess, laughing as he realised that he could actually win this time.
’‘Discord...’’ Celestia stood up, careful not to put any weight on her right leg. The spirit turned towards her in obvious disgust. ’‘I’m not done with you yet...’’ Celestia winced as a wave of pain rocked through her leg.
’‘Aren’t we stubborn?’’ Discord grinned and flared his wings.
’‘You have no idea.’’ Celestia shot open her wings and charged towards Discord, who accepted the challenge and flew to meet her in the air. They collided in mid-air in a mess of feathers and flailing limbs. Discord threw punch after punch at Celestia’s injured leg. Celestia tried to stab him with her horn. Discord’s horn flared to life and Celestia’s eyes widened as she realised that she couldn’t escape his grip.
Discord lowered his horn towards Celestia’s chestpiece. He started shaking from the power he was packing into just one blast. Celestia had stopped squirming and had realised that it was no idea in trying to get away from him now. As the blast was shot, the light inside the room wavered and a sound that imitated a thunderclap echoed through the entire castle. Celestia’s lifeless form crashed into a wall who crumbled on impact. She sailed through the wall into the corridor. She was stopped by a wall who cracked from taking an alicorn flying in a high speed towards it. She slumped to the floor and wasn’t moving at all.
Luna’s eyes started to water and she started sobbing when she laid her eyes on her unmoving sister. She feared the worst after seeing the display of power from two immortals battling eachother.
Discord chuckled and cantered the last distance between himself and the fallen goddess. As he came closer, he felt a weak magic field surrounding her. Celestia was still alive, but barely. Luna’s crying made him turn his head towards her. Luna was shaking and was too scared to say or do anything.
’‘She’s still alive.’’ Discord spat some blood. ’’I won’t kill her, just make her suffer like I did...’’ Discord growled and touched the tip of her horn with his own. His horn flickered to life as he concentrated on one particular spell.
Celestia’s eyes shot open from the sudden pain rising from her hindlegs. She looked down at them to see her legs becoming stone in a slow progression. She opened her mouth to scream but a pathetic whine was the only sound coming from her. She gritted her teeth and clenched her eyes shut as her gut became stone. Discord hadn’t been lying when he explained how painful it was to be turned into stone. Celestia started hyperventilating as her intestines stopped moving. She was in full panic when her heart stopped beating while she was still alive. Tears were flowing freely from her eyes.
’‘Bye-bye, Shiny...’’ Discord chuckled darkly and stood to his full height as he saw her eyes being covered by stone and her horn turn to a dark, dirty grey. Discord turned away from her and walked back inside the room where Luna and Black Rush were in. The captain looked overjoyed and cheerfully saluted to Discord, who rolled his eyes from the display. Luna was shaking and backing away from Discord with her wings flared and ears splayed back. Discord smirked as Luna was forced to the wall. He stopped just in front of her.
’‘Since I want this to be a little more interesting, I’m going to give you a ten-second head start to go wherever you want to go, unless you want to end up like Celestia immediately.’’ Discord’s eyes narrowed.
’‘Discord-’’ Luna glanced at her now petrified sister.
’‘Ten.’’
’‘Please, do-’’ Luna pleaded.
’‘Nine.’’ Discord squared his shoulders.
’’No...’’ Luna shook her head.
’‘Eight.’’
Luna shot out through an open window and flew away at full speed. Discord looked at the window where she had fled and smirked.
’’My lord, what do you want The Anarchy to do?’’ Black Rush walked beside Discord.
’’To stay away from me...’’ Discord growled and shot out into the air in the same window as Luna had before him. He saw a midnight blue dot in the horizon and grinned, the chase was on. But to his dismay, a bright flash made Luna disappear. She had teleported away from him. ’‘Clever girl...’’ Discord grinned. This just got much more interesting.
Twilight Sparkle had just finished re-shelfing her library when a teary-eyed lunar princess with a disheveled mane popped into existance beside her. Luna surprised the young mare by pulling her into an embrace, while sobbing uncontrollably.
Twilight realised immediately that something really bad must have happened if Luna is acting like this.
’‘Wha- what’s going on? What happened?’’ Twilight wasn’t sure if she wanted to know the answer.
’‘Discord...’’ Luna sobbed.
’‘W-what happened with D-Discord?’’ Twilight gasped.
’’Oh, I’m just fine, dear Twilight...’’ Discord stood in the doorway, smirking. Twilight recognised his voice and noted the change in his eyes. She gasped again as Discord took a step closer.
’‘Stay away..!’’ Luna croaked and stood up.
’‘Luna, my dear,’’ Discord snickered ’’if I could defeat your sister and petrify her, do you really think you can challenge my power?’’ After another bright flash, Luna and Twilight Sparkle was gone. Luna had teleported them to safety. Discord sighed and rolled his eyes.
In the town square, a flash ignited, startling almost everypony. Five other flashes and an equal amount of confused ponies materialised into existance. Luna was panting from the strain of finding five different ponies and teleporting them to her took a lot of energy out of her.
The now gathered Elements of Harmony all looked at eachother in confusion. All except for one. Twilight Sparkle was crying for the loss of her precious mentor. Luna stood up and cleared her throat, choking a sob.
’‘Girls...’’ They turned their heads to Luna, all of them had many questions that they wanted to be answered. ’‘I’m afraid I have some very, very bad news...’’ Luna looked down at the ground. ’‘Discord-’’
’‘Petrified your dear Princess Celestia and made a fancy garden decoration out of her.’’ All eyes turned to Discord, who trotted into the square while whistling a jaunty tune.
’‘You...’’ Twilight growled.
’’Me.’’ Discord held a hoof to his chest.
The Elements of Harmony got in front of Discord in a row like they had when they inprisoned him. But this time, no element necklaces or tiaras were there. Everypony stared at him with malice, even Fluttershy. Discord tsked and rolled his shoulders while cracking his neck.
’’Do you know from what animal my eyes are?’’ Discord smiled. The ponies in front of him stared at him in disbelief because of the random question. Twilight coughed awkwardly and spoke up.
’‘Dragon..?’’ She crooked an eyebrow.
Discord snickered and rolled his eyes. ’‘And I thought you had a little more intelligence than that. There’s no slits and no pupils at all.’’ Discord’s eyes widened and his eyes started glimmering, making the girls look at his eyes. ’‘Cockatrice... ’’
Luna realised what was happening and shielded her own eyes with her hooves. The Elements of Harmony didn’t see it coming, and were now turning to stone. Six different piercing shrieks of pain echoed through the entire time.
Discord was laughing and pointing his hooves at them. Rainbow’s expression when she couldn’t move her wings was priceless. She was frozen with that expression. When it was complete, Discord had six new garden decorations.
The only pony left that could stop him was Luna, this was going to be different. This would be tormenting the one pony who truly loved him in his harsh life. Discord was almost about to go away and let her go, before the periculum sent another wave of hate and chaos magic rocking through his body. Discord closed his eyes and shook his head free from those thoughts.
’‘Ready to play , Luna?’’ Discord squared his shoulders and lowered his head into an attack position.
A/N: Preread and edited by the awesome frieD195! Fun fact, four words made me write this story in the first place; Discord is best pony.
A/N: Edited by Magnumopai and frieD195! And a repeat; I'm taking a break from writing for a while. I'll update in my blog when I'm back.
Celestia lifted her hooves to her head and rubbed her temples while sighing. The last days had been hectic, to say the least. Luna hadn’t said a thing after Discord left her in Ponyville. Celestia couldn’t understand how heartbroken Luna could become after the incident in Ponyville.
Celestia had replied to Discord’s note and had Twilight Sparkle and the rest of The Elements of Harmony by her side in the Canterlot throne room at all times; except for when they had to sleep. She had nothing against the girls and enjoyed their company, but she could do without Pinkie Pie’s constant rambling about everything she had seen in Canterlot so far.
She was still shaken from the experience of being turned into stone. It sent a chill down her spine every time she thought of the sensation of the cold, hard stone spreading across her regal body.
A barrage of armored hooves and clinking armor plates rang through the halls outside the throne room. Celestia stood up and flared her wings instantly. The Elements of Harmony hid themselves behind Celestia and Luna’s thrones. Fluttershy whimpered.
A familiar crimson aura encased the door, making it creak in protest as it opened wide. Four unicorn guards slid inside with their backs to the princesses. Two pegasi guards were thrown into the throne room from some kind of magic push. The guards gritted their teeth and braced themselves for another round against the mysterious alicorn they had encountered inside the castle. Their only focus was to protect the Princesses no matter what they faced.
Discord walked inside with a calm demeanor, the aura around his horn dimmed until it disappeared completely. His metallic black armor made Rarity stare at it in wonder. The guards formed a line just by the stairs leading up to the thrones. Discord stopped by the middle of the room and looked up at Celestia with an unreadable expression. It was a mix of anger, regret, hate and sympathy.
’‘Celestia’’ Discord cleared his throat.
’‘Discord.’’ Celestia relaxed and allowed her wings to rest to her sides again. ’’I presume that you’re here because of your request?’’
’‘That, and I also came here to apologize.’’ Discord sighed. ’‘The periculum took control when Captain Rush removed the necklace. I couldn’t do anything to stop it.’’ Discord lowered his head.
Celestia was taken aback from the sincerity in Discord’s tone. She was used to him being sarcastic, a little mean and belittling ponies. When she looked at him now, she saw a pony with a wish to be forgiven for his older deeds. Celestia walked down the staircase and to the stares from her guards, she placed her left hoof on his right shoulder. Discord was startled from the unexpected touch and looked up at Celestia.
’’I forgive you for what you did now and for what you did in the past.’’ Celestia smiled. Discord looked down at the floor.
’’I also came here to turn myself in to the authorities.’’ Discord raised his head as much as he could.
’’On what grounds?’’ Celestia arched an eyebrow.
’‘For the murder of 29 ponies, seven griffins and five diamond dogs.’’ Everypony gasped and stared at him in disbelief.
’‘Wha-what..?’’ Celestia stammered.
’’I obliterated The Discordant Anarchy. No survivors.’’ Discord’s tone wavered. ’’I killed...’’ Discord turned away from Celestia and closed his eyes. ’‘Use the Elements on me.’’ Silence loomed over the entire room. Nopony said anything until a door opened to reveal a disheveled lunar princess.
’‘Discord!’’ Luna squealed in a scratchy voice and glomped him. Discord fell onto his back and smiled weakly while wrapping his forelegs around her. Luna sensed that something was wrong and glanced at her older sister, who seemed to be shocked. ’‘Discord... What’s wrong? Has something happened?’’ Luna stared straight into his eyes. They were distant and unfocused.
’’I killed.’’ Discord said in a distant tone, sighing. Luna wrapped her hooves around him and pulled him towards her as tight as she could. ’‘I’m dangerous.’’ Discord pushed Luna away from him and stood up. ’‘I’m just a beast that deserves to be locked up. Twilight Sparkle, if you would do the honors?’’ He waved a hoof to the lavender unicorn, who peeked at him from behind Celestia’s golden throne.
’’NO!’’ Luna shouted. ’’I won’t let you go away again!’’ Luna flared her wings and stood in front of him.
’’I don’t deserve love!’’ Discord raised his voice. ’‘For all the things I’ve done over my pitiful existence, love is a thing I just don’t deserve for all I’ve done to all of you...’’ Discord looked away from Luna with his ears splayed back. Luna bit her lower lip and tried to keep a straight face. She took a deep breath and spoke up.
’‘You do deserve love, Discord.’’ Luna reached out with her left hoof and placed it on his chin, turning his head towards her. ’‘The fact that you do these things and return asking for forgiveness, sacrificing your own freedom to keep others safe... That’s why I love you, Discord. You do bad things from time to time, but in the end, you do your very best to answer to what you did.’’ Discord’s lower lip quivered, he gulped and took a deep breath.
’‘You and your way of finding the positive side in everything...’’ Discord chuckled with a dry throat. ’‘It’s just...’’
’‘What?’’ Luna asked, resting her head on his neck.
’‘The periculum...’’ Celestia’s ears perked. ’’It has divided from me and created another darker, more sinister side of me. Right now it’s telling me to kill you all and take the throne for myself.’’ Everypony gasped again and Fluttershy fainted.
’’I am sure we can find a way to restrain it. Right, Celestia?’’ Luna turned to her older sister who was lost in thought.
’’Hm? Yes, I think we just need another magic restraint. Lucky thing we created two, as I suspected that the old one would crack from time.’’ Celestia materialized another charcoal necklace, adorned with fire rubies in the same pattern as on the last one. Luna beamed and Discord gave them a crooked smile. He remembered what happened the first time they forced the necklace onto him. Discord sighed and tore a chunk from the area around his neck armour with his magic and braced himself for the effect of the necklace.
’’I adjusted it to leave your pegasus magic intact as I lock it to you.’’ Celestia opened the necklace and levitated it across the room to Discord, who looked at every direction instead of the necklace closing in. As he felt the cold touch of the material on the front of his neck, Discord held his breath and closed his eyes. Celestia closed her eyes and went to work to attach the lock to it.
A crimson beam emerged from the fire rubies and snaked around the necklace, which snapped shut and clicked, confirming it being locked to him successfully. Discord’s eyes shot open and he gasped, stumbling to the right and barely being able to maintain his balance. Luna moved swiftly to his side and allowed Discord to lean towards her for support.
Discord felt his powers drain from him again. The voice in the back of his head roared and disappeared gradually. His eyesight became fuzzy and the voices from the ponies around him became muffled and incoherent. Discord fell to his side with Luna being unable to catch him. He fell into blissful unconsciousness again.
’’I don’t think that had to feel that good.’’ Rainbow Dash scratched the back of her head and tilted her head a little. Discord’s right hind leg twitched once.
Discord groaned and rolled onto his side. For how long was he out cold? The thought rang through his head. He cracked his eyes open to see the roof of Luna’s room. He heard some soft snoring coming from behind him. He rolled over onto his back to see Luna sleeping there next to him. She wasn’t wearing any of her regalia, so she must have been sleeping for a while now. Discord leaned closer towards her and nudged her left cheek with his nose.
Luna mumbled something in her sleep and nuzzled his neck in return. She opened her eyes in a slow succession, only to see crimson eyes stare right into her cyan ones. Discord poked his right hoof on her nose, making her giggle.
’‘How long was I out?’’ Discord stretched his back and wings, a symphony of cracks and pops echoed through the room. Discord groaned in satisfaction.
’‘Two days...’’ Luna sighed.
’‘Really?’’ Discord asked, displeased about sleeping for so long.
’‘Yes really.’’ Luna circled her right hoof on his exposed chest, as they removed the armor from him when they put him to bed. She stretched her neck towards his face, softly stroking her own chest against him. Discord understood immediately what she wanted and complied by pulling her the rest of the way on top of him.
Luna pressed her lips onto his, while moaning softly. Discord’s whole body relaxed and he placed his right hoof onto her back, stroking it back and forth in a slow succession. Luna parted her lips and continued to lead her tongue into Discord’s mouth. Discord accepted the invitation and opened his mouth slightly, allowing entrance. Luna moaned in ecstasy. Discord rolled over, positioning him on top. Luna embraced him, content with just being there with him.
None of them noticed the servant standing in the doorway wide-eyed with her mouth hanging open in disbelief and shock. She backed out from the room and closed the door, leaving the two immortals to their desires.
’‘You wanted to see me, princess?’’ Twilight Sparkle walked inside her mentor’s private study to see Celestia lying on the couch, levitating a glass of red wine in front of her.
’’I did, Twilight Sparkle.’’ Celestia placed the glass on a desk and stood up. ’’I can understand if the last few days have been stressful both mentally and physically.’’
’‘You have no idea, Princess...’’ Twilight groaned and cracked her neck. ’‘Rainbow Dash and Applejack has been restless with nothing to do for over three days now. They’re active ponies and can’t stand being still for longer than necessary...’’ Twilight shook her head as she remembered Rainbow deciding to do a Sonic Rainboom inside the throne room.
’’I can understand that...’’ Celestia chuckled at her student’s friends antics. ’‘But I hope we can put this chapter with the Anarchy behind us?’’ Celestia asked, hoping that she would answer yes.
’’I don’t know, Princess...’’ Twilight sighed. ’‘Discord really scared all of us... Even Applejack, who is one of the most forgiving of us, is still skeptical about Discord...’’ Twilight’s gaze fell to the floor.
Celestia sighed and slowly shook her head. ’’We can only wait, then.’’
Twilight looked up at her mentor and smiled sheepishly. A sudden ruckus from somewhere in the castle bought their attention.
’‘Aaaand BAM, ZOOM! STRAIGHT TO THE MOO-HOON!’’ They heard Discord scream. The two glanced at eachother, blushing. They decided to not find out what was going on. Twilight coughed awkwardly and grinned sheepishly.
’‘Discord will be staying in Canterlot for the time being.’’ Celestia composed herself and cleared her throat.
’’I can understand that.’’ Twilight turned and started walking towards the door ’’I should get going back to the girls so we can head back to Ponyville.’’ Twilight waved and trotted outside. Celestia waved to her student and instead of levitating the glass of wine to her, she grabbed the entire bottle and took a large swig.
’’Oh, alcohol~’’ Celestia nuzzled the bottle.
A/N: Edited version! Edited by frieD195.
’‘Buuut Luuuunaaa~ ’’ Discord whined and made a puppy-dog look at the lunar princess in front of him.
’’No buts , Discord.’’ Luna furrowed her brow in concentration.
’‘It’s too tiiight...’’ Discord pouted and splayed his ears back, while making his lower lip quiver.
’‘Discord, you are the Embodiment of Chaos and the Spirit of Disharmony. You are one of the few beings that shouldn’t whine.’’ Luna scolded.
’‘For being a Princess who preaches harmony and well-being for all creatures, you sure like torturing your coltfriend...’’ Discord huffed and frowned.
’’Oh please! ’’ Luna exclaimed. ’‘This isn’t torture, this is a hobby of mine, so hold still!’’
’‘Fine...’’ Discord muttered.
’‘Good.’’ The princess of the night smirked. ’‘Besides, you do look so dainty and adorable now~’’ Luna cooed, making Discord’s wings rise much to his dismay.
A week had passed since the defeat of The Discordant Anarchy, and preperations for the annual Grand Galloping Gala were in full swing. Luna had decided to personally design and manufacture Discord’s suit and her dress. But with the ponykins that were in the castle being about Celestia’s size, they would rip the fabric of the clothes almost immediately. That’s why Luna had decided that Discord would do just fine as a ponykin, if he would stop whining , that is.
During the week that passed, Celestia had sent a troop of guards to the location where The Anarchy was obliterated to clean up the area, and answer some questions some civilians might have about the explosion that emanated from the Everfree. The guards dismissed it as being a training routine that went haywire. The public eye didn’t bother questioning their half-hearted explanation.
Discord was standing on a podium, occasionally groaning, squirming and pleading for Luna to release him from her very embarassing task. At the moment, Luna was making her own dress and of course, Discord was the one wearing it for the time being. The dress was midnight blue with a navy blue pattern. By the end of it, near the backhooves was a metallic blue trim.
Luna snickered as she added some frilly material around the neck area. Discord noticed her snickering and gasped.
’‘You do like making me look like a fool, don’t you ?’’ The unamused spirit deadpanned.
’’Oh, what gave you that idea?’’ Luna lifted a hoof to her mouth to conceal her giggling.
The door was suddenly encased by a yellow aura and swung open. The Princess of the day walked inside with her eyes closed, oblivious to the now extremely embarassed spirit standing next to her little sister.
’‘Luna, I-’’ She opened her eyes to see Discord in a dress, while her sister was giggling and levitating a pin-cushion and other materials used for dress-making. Celestia stood there, staring at Discord wide-eyed while trying desperately to think of something to say.
’’Uh... ‘Sup?’’ Discord grinned sheepishly. Celestia turned around swiftly and walked out of the room, not uttering a single word while heading straight to her room, where she uncorked another bottle of wine and downed it. Discord glared at Luna, who was shuffling her hooves and acting innocent.
Discord sighed and started pulling the cloth that caused this situation to arise. Luna panicked slightly as she feared that the dress would be ripped. She focused her magic and lifted it off of him. Discord ruffled his wings and polished the necklace with his right hoof. ’’So, did you enjoy making me the laughing-stock of the entire castle?’’ Discord asked nonchalantly.
’’As a matter of fact; Yes , I did.’’ Luna smiled slyly. She walked closer towards him and lightly brushed her left wing across his chest. ’’I think you liked it too~’’
’‘Yeah, no. ’’ Discord blew a stray strand of hair out of his face. Luna pouted.
’‘Party pooper...’’ Luna huffed.
’‘What do you think I plan to do at the Gala?’’ Discord smirked while Luna gasped.
’’Oh, don’t you dare...’’ Luna narrowed her eyes.
’’Oh, I dare. ’’ Discord started walking towards the door. ’‘And I will have my own fun there. Believe me.’’
’’I do believe that you will go through with this, and that is exactly what is bothering me.’’ Luna picked up the materials she had used and placed them in her closet. Discord walked up to her and nuzzled her.
’‘Come on, Lu...’’ Discord leaned to her ear and whispered to her. ’’...I know you’ll like it... ’’ Luna blushed and turned away from him, making Discord chuckle at her behaviour. ’’I know first hoof that you’re really not this shy.
’’I know first hoof that you’re a sissy in some situations.’’ Luna retorted and had to hold back a laugh as Discord visibly cringed from her revelation.
’’I do not care about what you say; spiders are scary little buggers... ’’ Discord shivered at the thought of his earlier encounter with that spider. Luna snickered at him. Discord pouted again.
’‘Come here, you.’’ Luna beckoned for him to come closer. Discord looked away from her, pretending to be uninterested in her shenanigans. She whistled once. Discord sighed and rolled his eyes while turning his head towards her.
Discord’s jaw dropped as soon as he laid his eyes on Luna. She was on her back on the podium where Discord had been standing, giving Discord her best ‘come hither’ look. Discord gulped as his wings snapped open rather embarassingly and his legs started moving towards her on their own free will.
’’...Okay’’
Yet again, none of them noticed a servant standing by the door. The servant facehoofed, groaned and closed the door.
’‘Like bunnies... ’’ The servant grumbled as she trotted to her next task.
In Ponyville, ponies were minding their own businesses. Everypony had tasks that needed to be fulfilled, but, as usual, there were ponies who decided to do nothing, rather than completing their tasks. Rainbow Dash was an example; She was supposed to be clearing the sky of stray clouds, instead of sleeping on them. But everypony knew just how efficient the rainbow-maned pegasus mare could be when the situation called for it.
Down on the ground, Sweet Apple Acres to be exact, a gargantuan red pony was pulling a massive iron plow through the fields, followed by his youngest sister. He was one of the more sought-after stallions in Ponyville by the mares, but sadly, he was painfully oblivious to the mare’s romantic invitations. Besides his granny and his sisters, he only had his eyes on one pony; the Ponyville librarian, Twilight Sparkle.
Big Macntosh grunted from the strain of pulling the wood-and-steel contraption hooked to his thrustworthy yoke. Only a few feet left and he would have completed his work for the day.
His sister didn’t allow him to work in the orchard bucking trees with her after he accidentally destroyed five trees in a row. He couldn’t control his strength well enough to be able to buck the trees properly; so Applejack had ordered him to pull the plow, the carts into town and just being the muscle of the farm.
With another strained grunt, his work for the day was finished and he could now move onto doing other things. He un-hitched himself from the plow, rolled his shoulders and started walking back to the farmhouse to clean up.
’‘Where are yah goin’, big brother?’’ Applebloom chirped as she bounced past him.
’‘Goin’ ta clean up an’ go into town.’’ Mac drawled.
’‘Into town? Again? ’’ His little sister repeated.
’‘Eeyup.’’ He nodded firmly once.
’‘Will ya be back for supper?’’ Applebloom asked before she sprinted the last distance between her brother and the house.
’‘Eeyup.’’
After Mac had made himself presentable and had cleaned the dirt off his giant red frame, he headed towards Ponyville at a brisk pace. If he just got one glance of her, he’d be satisfied and return to the farm. With him being so shy, conversations were often very short and not much to brag about. But today? Macintosh was dead set on starting an actual conversation with the mare.
In town, Big Macintosh started walking in a slow pace, taking some time to get to the library so he wouldn’t seem to be desperate. Many of the mares he passed on his way to the library whistled when they saw him and were friendly, too friendly. But Big Macintosh was too oblivious to understand what they wanted from him.
It felt like a frog was in his throat when he saw the giant tree that had been hollowed out and turned into a library. With it being a public library, there was no need to knock, but he did it anyway. The soft clopping of hooves on the other side of the door bought his attention. He took a deep breath and straightened his yoke. A purple aura encased the door, who opened slowly to reveal the mare he expected to meet.
’’Oh, hello Big Macintosh!’’ Twilight chirped. Mac just stared at her, wide-eyed. She was just so beautiful . Her purple eyes were amazing.
’’Ah... Uh... Hi, Miss Twilight.’’ Mac cleared his throat.
’‘Did you need any help..?’’ Twilight arched an eyebrow.
’’Uh...’’ He glanced behind her momentarily to see the bookshelves. ’‘Books!’’ He exclaimed. ’’Ah mean... Ah wanted ta look at sum books.’’ He grinned sheepishly.
’‘Well... Okay, then! Come in!’’ Twilight moved out of the way, letting the titan of a pony enter. Big Mac walked in slowly, careful not to break anything. He walked up to a random bookshelf, looking at books he really didn’t care about. Twilight walked back to the desk where a book on advanced spells were lying. She glanced back at the farmpony who seemed to be genuinely confused. She bit her lip and turned away from him as soon as she saw him turning his head towards her.
Big Macintosh found himself staring at the petite mare, who was engrossed in a book in front of her. He turned away from her and looked in the opposite direction of where she was, while whistling a tune his father taught him when he was just a colt. Twilight took a deep breath, turned towards him and walked to the stallion.
’’Do you need any help?’’ Twilight asked. Mac jumped slightly when she talked to him, but he composed himself before he spoke up.
’‘Well... Ah was lookin’ for books ‘bout growin’ crops an’ such...’’ He admitted, his blush was hidden perfectly with his red coat.
’’In the section with books of magic and science?’’ Twilight questioned. ’‘Here, let me show you where the books you were looking for is.’’ Twilight nudged his shoulder and started walking towards a shelf close to were she had been reading. Mac shuddered at her touch and trudged behind her, not daring to look down at her when she was walking right in front of him.
’‘Thank ya kindly, Miss Twilight.’’ Mac nodded.
’‘Please, call me Twilight.’’ Twilight winked, making Macintosh stretch his neck involuntarily.
’‘Well... Okay then, Twilight.’’ The two ponies smiled and started looking at their respective books.
An awkward silence fell on the library, but Big Macintosh was satisfied that he had just talked to her more than he had ever done over the years he’d known her. Mac found a book on all different kinds of apples and where you can grow them. With him being an Apple, he already knew all of the things in that book.
’’Ah guess I’ll take this one...’’ He showed Twilight the book.
’‘Sure! Let me just check it.’’ Twilight grabbed the book with her magic, wrote down the title of the book on a parchment and levitated it onto his back.
’‘Thanks...’’ Big Macintosh shuffled his forehooves on the floor, while staring at them.
’’No problem, just remember to return it in a week, okay?’’ Twilight smiled.
’‘Sure...’’ Big Macintosh realised that he didn’t have a reason to see her for a week now, unless he would finish the book earlier. But with him being a slow reader, it wasn’t really imaginable. ’’Ah was just wonderin’ if...’’ Big Macintosh started breathing in a stressed pace.
’‘What?’’ Twilight noticed how stressed he was.
’’Ah just wondered if ya’d like to...-OH CELESTIA AH CAIN’T!’’ Big Macintosh charged through the open door while breathing heavily. Twilight just stared at the giant running down the street, partly confused but then a realization hit her.
’‘Big Macintosh likes me!’’ She squeaked in excitement, bouncing around in a circle. Finally, she bolted up the stairs into her room, where she was caught in a fit of giggles.
Down the street, just on the outskirts of Ponyville, Big Macintosh was trotting in a brisk pace, his ears splayed back. The blush on his face was visible through his coat. He was furious at himself for running off like he did.
’‘Smooth move, Mac... Smooth move...’’ He mocked himself. Almost all of the townsponies had witnessed him running down the street like he was being chased by Discord himself... Wait... Discord..? Applejack had explained to him that Discord had been turned into a pony by some strange magic and that he wasn’t able to use any of his freaky powers. She also said that Discord was with Princess Luna, who was a real looker . An idea washed over him.
’’If Ah can get hold of that Discord... maybe he could help me with winnin’ Miss Twilight!’’ Macintosh exclaimed. ’‘Ah’m a genius!’’ He ran the last bit to the Sweet Apple Acres, planning a way for him to talk to the Spirit of Disharmony.
In the Canterlot castle, a very sore spirit was walking through a corridor, heading straight for his room to rest. Discord was extremely tired, because of some... Gymnastics he had performed with Luna. As he walked around a corner, he heard some strange music coming from Celestia’s room. The beat of the music was upbeat, and he heard a slurred voice sing with the song from Celestia’s room. Discord snickered and walked to the door and opened it. His jaw dropped to what he witnessed.
Celestia was standing on her bed, while thrashing her head from side to side to the beat of the music. The only object from her regalia she was wearing was her crown. Six empty bottles of red wine was lying scattered on the floor next to the bed. An constant blush was plastered on her face.
Celestia was, in no uncertain terms, shit-faced and dancing on her bed.
That’s when Discord noticed the lyrics of what she was singing.
’’I’m too*hic*sexy for my crown’’ Celestia focused her magic and grabbed her crown and threw it into the wall. ’’So*hic*secksy it*hic*hurts’’ Celestia staggered on her bed, almost falling over. ’’An’ I’m, too*hic*sexy for Milare*hic* too sexy for Milaaaare~’’ She started bobbing her head. ’‘Neigh Yooork an’ Neighpon...’’
’‘Celestia!’’ Discord exclaimed. ’‘Get a hold of yourself and uh... Cover... up...’’ Celestia stopped her dancing and walked off the bed and towards Discord, almost falling over with every step.
’‘Stop... Stop being such a... a killjoy.’’ Celestia slurred.
’’No, I mean it. Everypony can hear you singing that very... flattering song.’’ Discord shuddered.
’‘Good because... ‘Cause they should know that I’m... I’m shecksy....’’ Celestia accidentally spat right into his face. ’‘Heh... Whoops...’’
’‘Please stop it, okay?’’ Discord pleaded.
Celestia huffed and frowned. ’‘I’m... I’m sexy an’ I know it...’’ She waved a hoof at Discord, who facehoofed. She laid down on her bed and sighed. ’‘This bed is soooft... ’’ Celestia looked up at Discord and looked at him with her eyes half-lidded. ’‘Why... Why don’t you join me?’’ Celestia licked her lips.
’‘Nope!’’ Discord turned around and trotted out of the room, all fatique gone and forgotten. ’’Nope! Nope! Nope! Nope! Nope! Nope!’’ He repeated while shaking his head.
’‘Well, that was scary.’’ Discord thought as he laid down on his bed in his room, while taking a deep breath. ’‘Note to self, never drink with Celestia.’’
Luna was in her room, contemplating about the weeks that had passed after Discord’s return. She had just raised the moon and was now lying on her bed, thinking of the troublemaker she loved. He could be rude, but she looked past his exterior and felt the kind being that resided inside of him. Luna started thinking about her past with him, when he was still a Draconequus. Back then, it was much simpler than what it was now. She didn’t have the same responsibility like the one she had now. She sighed and closed her eyes, thinking about simpler times. She fell asleep soon after, re-living the memories in her dreams.
Ugh... This court is so boring! Why does Celestia insist on holding them, when the ponies who come to court are just elders looking for something to do!? We’re not even royalty! We’re just alicorns, after all... Mother and father dissappeared when I was ten years old, and when Celestia was seventeen. My mother’s cutiemark appeared on me and my father’s cutiemark appeared on Celestia. She doesn’t like to talk about our parents. I think she’s hiding something from me...
I wonder what Discord is doing right now... He’s probably doing something fun, and not being held back to listen to ponies complain. I will have to go and visit him later, as I haven’t met him in... how long has it been? Two weeks? Yes, that seems fair... I will have to sneak out, though. I’ll go tonight, I can’t wait to see him again.
***
Celestia is sleeping right now, I checked her room and she was snoring. Loudly. I snuck past the gate to our house, or ’castle’ as Celestia likes to call it when it’s just a glorified hut. I spread my wings and took off into my night. I don’t know why, but the serenity of flying during the night is just so relaxing. It’s amazing, really. It’s such a shame the ponies below sleep during the night, missing it. Oh well...
I’m flying over a big forest that Celestia had named the Everfree forest, I don’t know why she decided to call it that. It’s a silly name.
I circle around the grove where I met him the first time, where I... shot him down... Lucky thing that he forgave me for it, as that lion paw of his seems to be awfully strong, but it’s also awfully soft. His eyes are just... Amazing. They always have some kind of ethereal glow, even in the dark. I presume it helps him see when it’s dark outside. I can see so well in the dark because my magic of controlling the night gives me that special ability. But his body? It’s so special. Discord explained what he was; a Draconequus. A creature built up by all sorts of animals, forged into one. Nature’s plaything. They also had some strange magic Discord explained to be his ‘bad side’, and he didn’t want me to see it. Discord just said that I helped him control it.
I look down at the middle of the field to see him lying in the middle of the field, with his hands resting beneath his head. He has a serene expression, just staring at the night sky. I smile and land a couple of feet away from him.
’‘Beautiful, isn’t it?’’ Discord asked, still staring straight ahead at the sky. I laid down besides him and looked up, and then down at him.
’’It always is.’’ I smiled. He smiled back at me and sat up.
’’Oh, aren’t we being a little narcissistic, hm?’’ He grinned. I pouted and punched his shoulder playfully. He winced in mock-pain.
’‘Quiet, you.’’ I rested my head to the shoulder where I had just punched him. He chuckled and started brushing his eagle talon through my mane. I sighed and closed my eyes. I don’t know why it felt so relaxing to be with him, but I never complained about his company. Sure, he could be a little rude from time to time, but he makes it up by listening to everything I have to say, unlike Celestia, who is almost always too busy to listen to me.
’‘Luna..?’’ Discord whispered.
’‘Hmm?’’ I answered lazily, nuzzling into his shoulder.
’‘What would happen if... If your sister would find out about... Us?’’ Discord sounded like he was genuinely afraid of Celestia.
I choked on my breath, I hadn’t thought about what she would do. I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be happy about it, but I am also pretty sure that she wouldn’t do anything bad to him, I hope.
’‘We’ll find out if it ever happens.’’ I closed my eyes again and moved my head to his chest. His irregular heart-beats calmed my nerves.
’‘Alright.’’ Discord sighed and wrapped his arms around me.
Luna was awoken with a start because of some heavy pounding on the door. She groaned and rolled off the bed and rubbed her eyes with her hooves. Luna stood up and walked to the door, while opening it with her magic. Her eyes widened at the sight of the pony standing outside.
It was Celestia, but her eyes were bloodshot and there were great bags beneath her eyes. Her flowing mane was hanging down her neck, barely twitching in the end of it.
’‘Celestia!’’ Luna exclaimed, making Celestia cringe and groan.
’‘Not so loud, please...’’ Celestia gritted her teeth.
’‘What’s wrong? Has something happened? Did Disco-’’ Celestia raised a trembling hoof to silence her rambling sister. To her relief, Luna stopped talking immediately.
’‘It’s nothing too bad, something may have happened but I’m not sure as I can’t remember that much from yesterday...’’ Celestia croaked. ’’I am completely sure that Discord has nothing to do with this, though.’’
Luna breathed a sigh of relief, Discord hadn’t done anything to her. ...yet. ’‘Then what’s wrong? You look terrible...’’ Luna remarked, making Celestia frown.
’’I am merely hung over from yesterday, as I... got some wine to drink...’’ Celestia shuffled her hooves awkwardly.
’‘How much did you drink?’’ Luna demanded.
’’I... I think it was seven bottles...’’ Celestia rubbed a hoof to her chin. ’‘Yes, that seems like it’s correct.’’ She shrugged. ’‘That’s beside the point of why I came here. I was supposed to go to Ponyville today to check up on my student’s planning for the Gala. But with me being in my current state, I am unable to go, so you will have to go to Ponyville today and check on the preparations.’’ Celestia turned around and walked back to her room. ’‘I’ll be in my room, napping. So when you leave, please don’t tell me as I need to sleep right now.’’ She walked into her room and closed the gilded doors.
Discord’s head poked around the doorway. ’’So, I heard something about Celestia being hung over?’’ Discord grinned and rubbed his hooves together.
’’Oh no you don’t...’’ Luna growled. ’‘Please leave her alone today?’’ Luna pleaded. Discord thought of it. Pissing off Celestia, but also pissing off Luna at the same time? Maybe it wasn’t worth it, after all...
Discord frowned and rolled his eyes. ’‘Fine...’’ Luna beamed and laid her left foreleg over his back, while pulling him closer towards her.
’’I presume you heard about me going to Ponyville for the day too?’’
’‘That I did.’’ Discord groaned. ’‘This day is going to be so boring... ’’
’’I would love for you to come, but I doubt that the Elements of Harmony would be very happy about it. Besides, this is royal business...’’ Luna pouted as she thought of the young mares who hadn’t quite forgiven Discord for what he had done to them. She wasn’t mad at them for it, though.
’’Eh, I’m sick of that backwater-dump anyways.’’ Discord stretched his neck. Luna scowled.
’’Be nice, Discord.’’ She warned. Discord gulped and grinned sheepishly.
’‘Well, when you put it that way...’’
’‘Good.’’ Luna beamed and gave Discord a peck on the cheek. ’’I have to go now, but I’ll be back in a few hours, okay?’’ Luna released Discord and started walking towards the balcony, where she looked back at Discord, winked and flew off. Discord sighed heavily and trotted out from the room while glancing at the door to Celestia’s room.
’‘Well, she did say that she wouldn’t come back for a couple of hours...’’ Discord reasoned and trotted towards the solar princess’ quarters.
In Ponyville, Big Macintosh was selling apples at the market, as Applejack had to talk with Twilight Sparkle about the upcoming Gala in Canterlot. So here he was, sitting by the small cart filled with all kinds of apple products. Applebloom was sitting next to him, eyeing everypony who passed the stand.
Mac sighed, lifted one of his massive forelegs to the counter and rested his head on it. Sales were slow today, and it wasn’t very exciting work just sitting around and selling apples. The only customers he had so far were only mares. He recognized some of them to be Rose, Daisy and Lily. All of the three mares winked and rolled their shoulders as they left him. He had no idea why. Maybe they were tired and their shoulders were sore? Mares...
A sudden commotion down the street bought his attention, he witnessed as a midnight blue pony with a dark mane landed not far from the library. He realized that it was no other than Princess Luna herself. He gasped and knew that this was the opportunity he needed to get hold of Disord. He was about to stand up and walk to her but he remembered that Applejack was still inside the library. He huffed and laid his head down on the counter. Applebloom was sitting next to him, humming a tune and rocking back and forth.
That’s when an idea formed. Macintosh cleared his throat, gaining the attention of his sister. ’‘Applebloom?’’
’‘What is it, big bro?’’ Applebloom stood up and beamed.
’‘Are ya a big pony?’’
’’‘Course Ah’m a big pony!’’ She exclaimed.
’‘Big ponies can handle th’ stand without anypony helpin’, so are ya a big pony?’’ Mac challenged her. He smirked as a determined expression washed over her face.
’’Ah can do it!’’ She started bouncing on the spot.
’‘Good, ‘cause that’s what yer gonna do for a couple of minutes, ‘kay?’’ Mac stood up and stretched his back.
’‘Really?’’ Applebloom squeaked.
’‘Really.’’ Mac chuckled and started walking towards the library, ready to wait for the lunar princess to leave. He felt bad about leaving the stand just like that, but desperate times calls for desperate measures. Besides, Applebloom couldn’t destroy that much.
...Right?
Back in Canterlot, Discord had found the storage room of where the royal orchestra has their instruments. He looked past all the different kinds of instruments packed into the room. There were cellos, violins and a couple of instruments that he didn’t know the name of. In the corner of the room, he found the instruments he was interested in. He lifted the brass plates and inspected them for cracks or any damages, they were perfect.
He had arranged a little concert for Celestia, but the best part of it all was that Celestia didn’t know about it. He hit the cymbals once and grinned as the sound who came from them was more than enough for his plan. He packed them into a saddlebag he had found when he was inspecting the castle. He whistled a tune as he trotted out from the storage room and kicked the door to close it.
The cymbals clanked together as he trotted through the castle corridors. It had taken a few hours to find the right room that contained the objects of his interests, this was going to be hilarious . Well, at least he thought so. It was a big chance that Celestia would send him sailing through a couple of walls, but that’s a hit he was willing to take for a good laugh.
His smile grew even wider as he trotted into the familiar corridor where the rooms of the Princesses were. He dropped his pace until it was just a slow walk, making no sound at all. He had to hold a hoof to his mouth to stop his laughing as he opened the door to the Solar princess’ room.
Celestia was lying on her side, her mane was hanging limply down her swan-like neck. A puddle of what he suspected to be drool was just next to her head. Discord snickered and gingerly lifted the cymbals with his mouth and attached them on their respective hooves. As he had adjusted both of the straps to perfection, he stood up on his hindlegs and balanced with his wings as he took small steps closer towards the snoozing princess.
He bit his lip, not making a single sound at all as he raised his forelegs over her head. Celestia shifted in her sleep, making Discord stand completely still. As Celestia had settled again, Discord resumed his forelegs to their older position just above her head. Discord spread them, took a deep breath and sla-
’‘What are you doing?’’ A servant standing by the doorway stared at him. Discord’s eyes widened and he started stuttering, almost falling over from the surprise.
’‘Surprising her..?’’ Discord grinned sheepishly. The servant’s stare hardened, until it softened and the servant rolled her eyes and walked away.
’‘Whatever...’’ He heard her mumble as she walked down the hall. Discord sighed in relief and raised his forelegs over Celestia again, taking deep breaths and spread them again.
Discord slammed the cymbals together six times with all the strenght he could muster. Celestia’s eyes shot open and she sat up in a hurry. Discord noticed her sitting up and reached out with his left foreleg.
Celestia’s muzzle made contact with the cymbal, making her groan and curse. Discord burst into laughter, making Celestia stare at him with bloodlust in her eyes. Celestia started growling and stood up slowly, making Discord stop laughing gradually. She snorted two small balls of fire from her nostrils.
’’Oh shit... ’’ Discord backed away from the now extremely agitated princess, until he turned around and bolted through the door.
A giant ball of fire chased him through the room. Celestia was not far away from him. Her entire body was covered in flames. She had only one thought at the moment.
’‘I wonder what fried Draconequus tastes like?’’
A/N: Pre-read and edited by frieD195! I feel bad for Discord right now. Oh well...
A/N: Edited version! Edited by frieD195 You got this chapter because I felt bad about leaving it without an update for so long again. The Tank story is coming. The writing of the second chapter has begun.
The Canterlot Castle garden.
The royal garden is known all over Equestria because of the exotic flowers and animals who reside there. The serenity of the garden itself is often spoken of and praised. Many ponies wish to go there just once in their lives. Two ponies were sitting next to a tree, holding eachother close.
One of the ponies was a white unicorn stallion with a dark blue mane with blue streaks. His purple armor strapped firmly to his frame and his helmet was lying next to him. Lying in his arms was his wife. A soft pink alicorn with a luxurious multi-color mane. Her crown glistened in the sun, as did the hoofguards she was wearing.
Shining Armor and Princess Cadance were resting after a full day of hard labor for the two of them. The calm and quiet atmosphere was exactly what they needed.
That was, until a roar of flame and screaming rocketed through the garden. Shining Armor stood up immediately as the alien sound was heard and positioned himself infront of his now startled wife.
’‘Armor, what’s going o-’’ She stopped talking as soon as she witnessed a slightly scorched stallion barrage around a corner with a panicked expression. The stallion’s coat was a goldish grey with a few darkened spots from what she assumed to be from the roaring fire she had heard moments earlier. His mane was an extremely dark grey, almost black but the grey tones in his mane were brought forward by the sun. His eyes though, was something else. They were a brilliant crimson. His pupils were barely visible pinpricks, presumably due to his panicked state. Another detail that caught her attention was the heavy necklace around his neck. It was charcoal grey, decorated with three fire rubies. Two of them were glowing in a red aura.
’‘HALT!’’ Shining Armor bellowed and got in the way of the strange unicorn. The stallion spread his wings and with a powerful thrust, he leapt over him and stopped. Cadance’s and Shining Armor’s jaws dropped. The stallion was panting and his wings, who were now in their full extent were twitching.
’‘What!?’’ The alicorn asked forcefully, obviously unamused.
’‘Identify yourself. Now. ’’ Shining hissed as his horn started glowing with a faint purple aura. The stallion sighed, slumped his shoulders and walked towards the duo. Cadance peeked at the strange stallion standing infront of them.
’‘I’m Discord, Embodiment of Chaos and the Spirit of Disharmony. You may have heard of me before...’’ Discord said half-heartedly. ’‘You must be Twilight Sparkle’s brother, Shining Armor. The astonishing filly behind you must be Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.’’ Discord bowed in a mock-fashion. ’‘Charmed. ’’
Shining’s façade of being a powerful, unbreakable captain of the Royal Guard shattered in an instant, revealing the face of a scared, young colt. ’’No way... ’’ Cadance’s face lit up as she beamed. She stepped forward, making Discord take a step back.
’‘I’ve heard Auntie Luna talk about you!’’ She scanned his features. Decent frame. Muscular, but not too muscular. He was taller than Shining Armor by at least half a head. He always held his head high, showing that he had a good posture. Luna hadn’t been lying when she had said that he was handsome.
’‘Have you now..?’’ Discord smirked. ’‘What did she say then?’’
’’Oh you know, just things like that you’re mischevious, but in a good way and that you really are caring and a real softie, but you have a rough exterior to hide that fact.’’ She smiled and had to supress a laugh as his face fell. Discord cringed and bit his lip. A sudden roar of flames, but this time much louder echoed through their surroundings. Discord’s eyes widened.
’‘I’d love to talk but... Ohshitgottarunbye! ’’ Discord turned around and sprinted away from the scene, leaving two confused ponies behind. Cadence turned towards the corner where Discord had originally came from to see Celestia ignoring them completely as she ran past them, obviously chasing Discord.
But instead of Celestia’s mane being its usual tricolor, her mane was an everlasting fire that roared in the wind as she passed them and ran around a corner where Discord had passed. Just before she dissappeared from their view, her horn started glowing and shot a fireball at what Cadence presumed to be Discord. A pathetic yelp affirmed her suspicions.
’’So... Do you know what’s going on?’’ Cadance nudged her husband, who twitched and shook his head.
’’I don’t know anymore!’’ He exclaimed and threw his arms up dramatically. Cadance’s ears flattened to her skull and she took a step back.
Big Macintosh tapped his left hoof impatientally. He had been waiting for almost an hour now. He had walked back to the stand once to see if it was still intact. To his great relief, the stand was still standing strong. He sighed and blew a strand of hair away from his eyes
Suddenly, the door of the library opened and Big Macintosh snapped into full attention. Out walked Princess Luna with a smile on her lips. She closed the door and sighed. Mac took a deep breath and straightened his yoke while walking towards her. She was stretching her wings when Mac cleared his throat. Luna turned towards him, startled by the sudden intrusion.
’‘Forgive me fer interruptin’ Princess, but Ah’m afraid Ah have to ask ya a favor...’’ Macintosh kicked sheepishly, making a small cloud of dust.
Luna eyed the stallion for a couple of seconds before she shook her head slowly. ’‘I’m sorry, but what’s your name? And what’s the favor, if I may ask?’’ The large stallion lifted his head and a small smile cracked.
’‘Mah name’s Big Macintosh. Ah’m Applejack’s big brother. And th’ favor is that I... I need help... from Discord...’’ He smiled sheepishly and straightened his neck.
’‘Why... Why would you want help from Discord of all ponies?’’ Luna arched an eyebrow and became a little suspicious as Big Macintosh started stuttering.
’’Ah... Uh... It’s... It’s kinda... personal...’’ Mac blushed slightly. ’’So can ya get’m tah talk to me or not?’’
’‘I’ll see what I can do about it.’’ Luna sighed.’’Discord can be awfully stubborn from time to time, but I’ll try to talk him into it.
’‘Thank ya kindly, Princess!’’ Mac beamed and bowed before he turned around and started walking back to the stand.
’‘Strange stallion...’’ Luna chuckled and started flying back to Canterlot, eager to see the Spirit the conversation had been about.
As Luna landed again in Canterlot, she could sense that something was off as soon as she set hoof on the castle grounds. Nopony was out, except for a couple of guards who were the unmovable elite. The guards saluted to her respectfully as she passed them. Inside the castle, not a single servant was in sight and the air smelled strangely enough like burnt chicken.
She dismissed it and continued her trot through the halls of the castle, heading straight to the part of the castle containing her and her sister’s private quarters. She was tired from the flight and wouldn’t complain about resting her head on Discord’s chest. She blushed unintentionally as she started thinking about him.
A sudden yelp from the hall next to her made her jump slightly. Luna stared at the direction where the yelp had come from. She perked her ears and could hear the clopping of hooves running down the hall. Luna took a deep breath and peeked around the corner to see Discord running towards her. A panicked expression plastered on his face.
’‘Discord!’’ Luna exclaimed as she saw the sooted patches on his fur. Discord skidded to a halt. A perfect expression of ‘I’m screwed’ fell over his face as soon as he saw her. ’‘What did you do?’’ She stomped, demanding a straight answer.
’’...Nothing...’’ Discord whistled. Luna’s eyes narrowed, making Discord gulp.
’‘Then why is your tail on fire?’’ Luna motioned to the burning strands. Discord squealed and started putting out the flames.
’’...It’s supposed to do that from time to time... you know... Periculum and... stuff... ’’ Discord smiled sheepishly. Luna sighed and facehoofed.
’‘You annoyed Celestia, didn’t you? ’’
’’...Maybe.’’ Luna glared at him. ’‘Okay... I did annoy her...’’ Discord rolled his shoulders. ’’A little...’’ Another glare. ’’A lot, then.’’ Discord huffed.
’‘Where is she now?’’ A roar from a fire answered her question. Luna witnessed as Celestia came around a corner. Discord hid behind Luna like a scared colt hides behind his mother. ’‘Calm down, Celestia...’’ Luna said softly. The flames on Celestia’s mane started dying gradually. ’’Do you want some tea?’’ Celestia glared at Discord, until her expression softened and she sighed. The fire in her mane snuffed out completely.
’‘Fine...’’ Celestia huffed. ’‘But if you ever ’’ She glared at Discord again. ’’do anything like this again, you won’t be able to get away. Understood? ’’ She hissed. Discord nodded furiously. Luna giggled at how submissive Discord was now. It gave her an idea
’‘And Discord, to pay it off, you’ll have to give me a backrub tonight.’’ Luna glared at him. ’‘Understood? ’’ Discord and Celestia stared at her with cocked eyebrows. ’‘What? It’s tiring to fly to Ponyville and back...’’ She pouted.
’’Ah... Why not?’’ Discord shrugged and Luna smiled slyly.
’‘Tea.’’ Celestia reminded the two and turned around, walking to the kitchen where she could prepare it on her own. Luna nodded and followed. She looked back to see Discord still standing on the spot. Luna walked back to him and nuzzled him.
’‘Come on now...’’ Luna nudged him to follow her. Discord started walking behind her.
’’I need a shower...’’ Discord said nonchalantly.
’‘You do.’’ Luna smirked as Discord shot her a stare. ’’I can help with that...’’ she whispered to him, making his wings rise in an embarassing fashion.
’‘I’m okay with that.’’
A/N: Edited. Edited by frieD195. I really am spoiling you with another chapter, aren't I?
Twilight Sparkle was enjoying the peaceful and quiet atmosphere of her library all on her own, since Spike had left to help Rarity with her work. She giggled as she thought of how lovestruck the little dragon became when he had seen Rarity for the first time. Even after all the years they had spent in Ponyville, he was still following her around.
With the silence and the newly acquired spare time, Twilight was reading a book about long-distance teleportation spells. She didn’t even have any reports to write about the subject but there’s nothing wrong about being well-read in it if she would someday be given an assignment about it, right?
Just as she was about to read the preparations for the spell which included using a few objects, a heavy pounding on the door rocked through the library. Twilight lost her focus on the book, groaned and started walking towards the door ready to give the perpretrator a piece of her mind.
She swung the door open to see none other than Big Macintosh. It was a pleasant surprise to the rather bland day she was having. Mac, however, was staring up in the branches of the tree while saying something under his breath. Strange. She harrumphed, making Macintosh jump and look down at her with a sheepish grin.
’‘What were you looking at?’’ Twilight glanced up to where Big Macintosh had been staring. She couldn’t see anything but leaves and branches. Mac looked around while working his jaw. He had to think of something. Fast.
’‘Uhm... Squirrels?’’ A snicker was heard from a branch. Twilight looked up to see once again, nothing. ’‘Laughing squirrels.’’ Mac nodded slowly. ’‘Very unusual.’’ He sighed in relief as Twilight shrugged.
’’So...’’ Twilight rolled her eyes. ’‘Did you need any help, or..?’’ She asked expectantly, it was nice being in the workpony’s company even when she didn’t know him very well.
’’Oh... Ah... Ah just wanted ta ask ya about somethin’...’’ Mac gulped. This was it, make or break. ’’Ah was wonderin’ if...’’ His heart was pounding and he was sweating bullets. This was much harder than what he thought it would be. Twilight cracked a smile and leaned towards him, making him even more nervous. ’’Is yer library an oak or..?’’ Twilight frowned. That wasn’t the question she was expecting to hear from him. A pained groan came from the same branch as before. But this time, both Macintosh and Twilight looked up. Twilight arched an eyebrow and eyed him.
’‘Squirrel?’’
’‘Nnnope. Bird.’’ Mac straightened his yoke, still sweating bullets. ’’Ah... Ah guess Ah’ll be goin’ then... An’ Ah hope. ’’ He glared at the shrubbery of the tree. ’‘Those dang birds an’ squirrels vamoose outta here...’’ He narrowed his eyes. Twilight made a mental note to ask Applejack about her brother’s mental health. A childish raspberry was heard and Mac groaned and facehoofed. The lavender unicorn faked a smile and backed towards the door slowly.
Big Macintosh turned away from the door and started walking away. Discord scowled. There was no way in Tartarus that he would allow the workpony to leave without asking her. He fluttered down silently behind him and smacked him in the back of the head. Macintosh whipped around and shouted a few very unflattering and descriptive words. The door flew open to reveal the librarian with her mouth hanging open.
’‘What did you just say about Cranky Doodle Donkey and my brother?’’ She shouted. Macintosh winced as he could feel the temperature rise when her horn started glowing. He had to think of something again, but this time much faster. He nodded firmly once and walked towards one of the walls of the library. He squinted as he inspected the trunk of the tree, tapped it three times and ended the ritual by licking the tip of it hoof and holding it over his head to feel the direction of the wind.
’‘What are you doing..?’’ Twilight asked, still a little irritated but at the same time interested of what he was doing. Macintosh grinned slyly as he turned around and positioned himself in front of the tree and took a few breaths.
He shifted his body-weight onto his forelegs, reared up onto the aforementioned limbs while kicking out with his hindlegs with all of his might. A strained grunt escaped his mouth. The entire tree shook violently and a cracking sound was heard from where the kick was delivered. Loose leaves and branches rained down onto the ground surrounding the ponies.
A sudden yelp of shock came from one of the branches and somepony fell down from the tree. Twilight Sparkle could recognize that armour anywhere and those crimson eyes of the pony revealed the identity of the pony as soon as she saw him.
’‘Discord...’’ She groaned and facehoofed. Discord made an innocent smile and placed a hoof to his chest in a ‘who, me?’ fashion. Macintosh trotted up to the downed spirit as smug as ever.
’‘You, my friend, have some very powerful hindlegs...’’ Discord complimented to the workpony, who’s chest puffed out in pride. He turned his head towards Twilight Sparkle, who was thoroughly unamused about the entire situation.
’‘Discord, what were you doing in my tree?’’ She snapped, making both of the stallions flinch. Big Mac started looking around to look anywhere except at the lavender unicorn.
’‘Helping a friend...’’ Discord groaned as he stood up while shaking a few leaves out of his mane. He pouted as he noticed a small dent in the armour. Big Macintosh started whistling innocently as Twilight turned his gaze to him.
’‘And what could you help, Big Macintosh of all ponies, with?’’ Discord sighed heavily and rolled his eyes while rolling his shoulders. Twilight was being kind of oblivious. Big Macintosh stared down at his hooves, not daring to look up at the mare.
’‘Why don’t you ask Romeo here?’’ Discord motioned towards the workpony, who froze the very moment Discord lifted his hoof. Twilight’s mouth became a perfect ‘o’ shape as she realized what they had been doing, and failing so far with.
’‘Mac...’’ She said in a tiny voice.
’‘Eeyup?’’
’’Is that what everything was about?’’ She walked closer towards the giant. Big Mac’s ears splayed back and he looked away from her.
’’...E-...Eeyup...’’
’‘ALRIGHT!’’ Discord exclaimed and clapped his hooves together, making two ponies glare at him. ’‘Mac, get to the point of this so I can blow this popsicle stand.’’ Discord faked a yawn and lifted a hoof to his mouth.
’‘Well then...’’ Macintosh took a deep, shaky breath. ’’Ah w-was wonderin’ i-i-if ya’d like tah go to th-th-’ Grand Gallopin’ Gala with me?’’ Big Mac smiled sheepishly. Twilight’s jaw dropped, making Discord attempt to surpress a guffaw with next to no success at all. Twilight worked her jaw, trying to wrap her mind about the situation who had just occured.
’’...Yes...’’ She squeaked. Discord lifted his forelegs and hollered like his favorite hoofball team had just won the championship. Big Mac’s eyes widened in disbelief.
’‘R-Really..?” She nodded. ’’If this is a joke, it ain’t funny...’’ Mac narrowed his eyes. Twilight groaned and rolled her eyes.
’‘This isn’t a joke, I’ll go with you.’’ She stated. Macintosh’s eyes grew even wider than before and a small smile grew on his face, which turned into a grin. Discord nodded and turned around, eager to get away from that sappy situation as fast as possible. He trotted off down the street, leaving the two ponies to talk about what they could expect.
He spread his wings, stretched them and took off in full tilt back to Canterlot. He had some planning to do. That planning couldn’t wait for another day as the plan itself would be set in motion in two days. He grinned sadistically as he got the perfect idea. This is going to be interesting.
The Royal Alicorn Sisters were sitting in their throne room, listening to some of their subjects coming to them with a proposition or an idea that would benefit society. Luna was pretending to pay attention, as her mind was somewhere else. Celestia was patiently explaining for the third time about how she couldn’t make the sun a little darker than what it already was.
A sudden commotion from the hall outside made everypony turn their head towards the gigantic doors leading into the throne room. Luna thought that she heard a very familiar voice. Celestia had also heard the voice and groaned. She really didn’t need this right now.
The doors flew open and as soon as they opened, a now very familiar goldish-grey alicorn slid inside the room without any difficulty. He was singing, or what in this case would be exclaimed as ‘screaming from the top of his very lungs’.
’’My friend’s got a marefriend, man! I hate that bitch! ’’ Luna understood that the task he had been sent to help Sir Macintosh with had been fulfilled. He could have been a little more discreet about it, though.
Celestia facehoofed and adressed the crowd. ’’My little ponies, I am sorry for this interruption, but-’’
’‘HAH! BUTT! ’’ Discord interrupted her. Everypony, except for the guards and the Princesses gasped at the behaviour of the unknown pony.
Celestia groaned and cleared her throat. ’‘As I was saying, I am sorry for this interruption but...’’ She stopped her sentence and glared at Discord, who whistled. ’‘Court will continue as it has been for the last few hours. However, Princess Luna will escort this fine, young, gentlecolt... ’’ Her voice was dripping with sarcasm. ’’To his quarters.’’ Luna whispered her thanks to her older sister and walked down to Discord. Discord cantered happily behind her. Luna flicked her tail onto Discord’s snout.
’‘Hey!’’ Discord exclaimed, but when he saw Luna’s expression as she winked and rolled her left shoulder. Discord’s frown was turned upside-down in record time. Instead of escorting him to his room, they made a small detour toward Luna’s room.
A/N: Edited by frieD195! This chapter took a while because I was focusing on other projects, and I had an injured wrist so writing stuff was a lot slower than normal. But I did have the time to squeeze out a one-shot fic that you can find HERE. I divided the Gala Chapter into two pieces, so you won't have to wait for the entire thing. Now, onto to the chapter!
Celestia and Luna were sitting in one of the many conference rooms in the castle, idly chatting and planning with some advisor for the upcoming Gala which was happpening this very same evening as they were just going through the last details of the event; such as guests who they know will arrive and guests who had yet to amswer their invitations.
The two planners glanced at eachother momentarily until one of them, a brown earth pony stallion, thorougly cleared his throat and spoke up. ’‘Princess Luna,’’ he began. ’‘forgive us if we’re being rude, but we know of the stallion that you hold dear.’’
’’Oh?’’ Luna said, interested of what they had managed to find out about Discord that she didn’t already know. Celestia shook her head gently, slightly annoyed that the conversation would strike out and get on the subject of that Spirit. ’‘Pray tell.’’ Luna motioned with her hooves for the stallion to continue.
’’We already know that Sir Discord can be quite the troublemaker. But if you would take a glance at the damage reports of the castle, we can rule out the possibility that the Gala will be very...’’ The stallion stopped and made a circular motion with his right forehoof, indicating that he was looking for the correct word to use. ’’...peaceful ’’
’‘Excuse me?’’ Luna said, slightly flabbergasted. ’’I can assure you that Discord will be behaving, so long as I can keep him under my watch.’’ Luna glared at the stallion, who shrunk back significantly. Celestia placed her left hoof on her agitated sister’s right hoof, successfully calming her down.
’’O-Of course, your Highness.’’ The brown advisor nodded firmly once and tugged his tie once. Luna took a deep breath and leaned back into the chair she was sitting in. Celestia shifted uncomfortably in her seat and focused her magic to help herself to a slice of cake. A sudden blast from outside the closed doors made Celestia groan painfully and Luna grin.
’‘Nope! Not here! ’’ An all to familiar voice spoke up, making Luna smile even wider and made Celestia sink even deeper into her seat. The two advisors tensed up immediately as they heard the voice of the former draconequus.
’‘This is the last room in the hallway, so I guess that they should be in here then... ’’ Another voice spoke. Celestia recognized it to be the voice of the Captain of the Royal Guard, Shining Armor.
’‘Well then, I guess we’ll try this one more time. Ready? ’’ Discord spoke again. The advisors were shaking in their seats as they imagined what horror the Embodiment of Chaos was bringing to them. Celestia turned the back of her chair against the wall ever so slowly, so if they would blast anything inside, she wouldn’t be hit. For once.
’’‘Course I am! ’’ The cocky voice of Shining Armor spoke up.
’‘Alright. In three. ’’ The advisors were clinging to eachother, not daring to let go of one another. ’‘Three... ’’ The sound of a spell winding up echoed through the halls, making Celestia hold her breath. ’’...Two... ’’ Celestia raised her forelegs to her ears and covered them, she was almost lying beneath the table at the time being. ’‘One! ’’ The apex of the spell winding up was heard, but a fizzling sound was all that was heard, followed by silence.
’‘Aww man! ’’ Shining exclaimed. Celestia sighed in relief.
’‘Don’t worry ‘bout it, I got it! ’’ Discord exclaimed happily. Celestia cursed herself for relaxing too early. A shattering thunderclap was heard from the corridor and the enormous door flew off the hinges with a fresh pony-sized dent in the middle of it. Discord held his forelegs over his head and whooped. Shining Armor trotted up to him and gave him a highhoof.
’’‘Discord...’’ Celestia groaned and rubbed her temples. The Spirit in question stretched his neck and looked at the solar princess while grinning.
’‘I’ll fix it...’’ Discord waved a dismissing hoof and rolled his eyes. ’‘Later...’’ He stood up and trotted around the table, where the advisors were staring at his every move, almost too scared to even breathe. As he reached Luna, he bent his head down and nuzzled her cheek, making her giggle.
’‘Shining Armor...’’ Celestia hissed through gritted teeth. He gulped and stood in attention, waiting for whatever punishment he would recieve for helping the Spirit with crashing almost every door in the castle open. ’‘You may leave us. I have some words to exchange with the... Charming gentlecolt here... She glared at Discord. Shining could have sworn that the temperature rose momentarily. He complied immediately and left the room.
’’Oh hey! Cake!’’ Discord threw himself onto the table and scooped up a big piece of the cake with his right hoof and devoured it. Celestia felt her eyes start to water as she witnessed the brutal assault on the poor cake. She closed her eyes and counted silently to ten. ’’So what are you gals doing?’’ Discord hopped off the table, much to Celestia’s relief. ’‘Stuff?’’
’‘Yes... Stuff...’’ Celestia spoke from behind her hooves, as she was holding them up on her face. The advisors had calmed down significantly as they had realized that the Spirit was just childish.
’‘Royal stuff?’’ Discord asked again while leaning over the table. Celestia groaned and Luna giggled at how annoyed Celestia was becoming from Discord’s antics. ’’Oh awesome, guest list!’‘ Discord reached out with his left hoof and snatched the parchment containing the guest list. ’’Da...De...’’ Discord was looking for his name. ’‘Here we go! He ran a hoof down the list until he was on the middle of the list. ’‘Discord...’’ He muttered and frowned.
’‘What’s wrong, Discord?’’ Luna asked as she glanced over his shoulder on the list. Discord’s frown turned into a childish pout.
’‘You didn’t get my title right.’’ Discord flicked the list with his right hoof and laid it on the table. Luna cocked her eyebrow. And the advisors started sweating bullets, as they were the ones who had composed the guest lists.
’‘Well... what is is then?’’ Luna nuzzled his shoulder, making the advisors raise their left eyebrows in unison.
’‘Lord Discord. Not Sir Discord..’’ He spoke matter-of-factly. Celestia leaned back into her seat. She couldn’t believe what he was saying. If it really was his title, he would have said so earlier.
’‘Is this some kind of joke, Discord?’’ Celestia deadpanned. Discord turned towards Celestia and gave her a cold glare, making her gulp.
’‘Titles are important, Celestia. I almost expected you, of all ponies, to know that. You see, I am not a sir, seeing as I’m not wearing a top hat, a monocle, nor do I my head too far up my behind to realize where I’m going and what I’m doing.’’ He huffed.
’‘Lord Discord... ’’ Luna gigglesnorted. Discord pouted and gave her a pleading look.
’‘Please don’t do that.’’ Luna snickered as Discord begged her to not make fun of his title.
’‘Discord, if you would mind. My sister and I were sitting here with our advisors talking about the Gala, in private .’’ Celestia spoke up ’’Twilight Sparkle and her friends should be arriving shortly to make themselves ready for the evening. You can go and meet them.’’ Celestia waved her right hoof towards the door, showing the spirit the way out. The two advisors didn’t say a single word, as they were a little frightened from the troublemaker’s entrance.
’’Oh... shouldn’t they know the lay-out of the castle by now?’’ Discord said, slightly annoyed that he had to leave as soon as he had made such a ’successful’ entry. Luna nodded in agreement.
’‘It’s rude to leave guests to fend for themselves, so you’re going to meet with them.’’ Celestia said with finality, making Discord pout like a young colt. Luna’s shoulders slumped slightly.
’‘Yeah, yeah... I’m going...’’ Discord stretched his wings and walked out through the gaping doorway, turning to the left. Celestia sighed and cleared her throat loud enough for him to hear. Discord turned around and trotted past the doorway, but this time he was trotting to the right. ’‘Shut up.’’ He was slightly embarassed that he had went the wrong way.
Celestia turned back towards the advisors and cleared her throat.’‘So, as I was saying-’’
Seven ponies and a baby dragon were sitting on a royal chariot, heading straight for the capital. All of the ponies, except for one, were mares. The silence aboard the chariot was awkward, nopony said anything unless they had to whisper something to the pony sitting next to them. Nervous glances were being shot every now and then to the pair sitting in the front of the chariot.
The two responsible to the silence on the chariot was none other than Twilight Sparkle and Big Macintosh. The latter was nervously biting his lip and trying to avoid the glare from his younger sister. Twilight Sparkle was recieving glares from Rarity and Fluttershy, who were obviously jealous of the lavender mare.
’’So...’’ Spike spoke up, glancing between the three mares who were all staring at the huge red stallion. ’‘Let’s hope that nothing too bad happens tonight, right?’’ He chuckled dryly, recieving glares from all the six mares. He gulped and shrunk back in his seat. ’‘Nevermind... ’’
To the relief of the two males on the chariot, Canterlot Castle was now in plain view and they were going in for the landing. Big Macintosh reached out with his right foreleg and held it around Twilight, to keep her from falling over. Rarity and Fluttershy’s eyes narrowed instantly. Twilight looked up to Mac’s face and smiled sheepishly. Mac just held her closer.
After a bumpy landing, the ponies and the dragon walked off the chariot and began their walk to the castle proper. Big Mac’s jaw was almost dragging along on the ground beneath him. He had never seen such luxury! He heard Twilight giggle from somewhere beside him.
’‘You know, the castle has staff that sweeps the road.’’ Mac heard a familliar voice from just behind him. He panicked slightly and whipped around to see Discord flying upside-down just in front of him. The rest of Mac’s company also jumped when they heard the voice of the Spirit, who stopped flapping his wings, did a barrel-roll and stomped to the ground. He imitated applause and bowed a few times.
’‘Thank you, thank you! I’m here... For... However long I’ll be in Canterlot...’’ He tapped his left hoof to his chin.
’‘You...’’ Rainbow growled as she saw the amused Spirit. He just grinned as an answer and mock-bowed to the rainbow-maned pegasus.
’’Me?’’ Discord batted his eyelashes and lifted his left hoof to his chest. Rainbow snorted through her nostrils and prepared to charge the cocky spirit. She hadn’t really forgiven him for turning her into a glorified garden decoration. Big Macintosh moved and positioned himself in front of Discord. All of the mares and the dragon’s jaws dropped in unison.
Rainbow was the first to compose herself. She shook her head and spoke up. ’‘Get out of my way, Mac!’’ She warned him, but her tone wavered just a little, as the stallion was much bigger than her and would probably be able to take a hit from the much smaller mare quite easily.
’‘Nnnope.’’ Big Macintosh answered after a while. ’‘Discord helped me wi’ askin’ Twilight an’ now Ah’m helpin’m with you.’’ A gasp rang from all the Elements of Harmony except for Twilight, who shrunk back. They stared first at Macintosh, then at Twilight and finally at Discord, who was busy inspecting his right hoof and polishing it to his chest.
’’No way...’’ Rainbow slumped back onto her flank and stared at the Spirit, who stuck out his tongue at her. Rainbow growled and charged towards Discord, who sidestepped just before Rainbow could crash into him.
Discord tsked and lifted a hoof to his mouth to conceal his laughter. Rainbow gritted her teeth and charged towards him again. Discord sidestepped again while making a whooshing sound. The ponies who weren’t involved stared at the progress between the Spirit and the pegasus. Rainbow screamed in rage as she charged again one last time. Discord rolled to the left and Rainbow barely missed him.
Now, Discord decided to join in on the fun. After the roll, he dug his hooves into the ground and gave his wings a powerful thrust, making a thunderclap as he charged off towards Rainbow Dash, who’s eyes widened significantly. Discord slowed down just before he would crash into her and pushed her onto her back. He stood on top of her and gave her a crooked smile before he walked away from her and flicked his tail on her snout. Rainbow barely registered it.
’‘You shouldn’t challenge somepony who defeated both of the princesses. But then I had my full magic and not just a tiny snippet of it.’’ Discord said nonchalantly as he started trotting towards the castle. ’‘Come on. Suneshine’s waiting.’’ As soon as Twilight heard that, she ushered her friends to move faster.
Rainbow trotted closer towards Discord and scanned his features. He was by no means an ugly stallion. He was actually pretty handsome. Rainbow noticed what she was thinking and shook her head to diminish those thoughts. ’’So, Discord...’’ The Spirit’s ears perked. ’‘How did you do that back there?’’ She asked, genuinely interested in how he had managed to evade her like it was nothing and then strike back like he did.
’‘Easy.’’ Discord blew an annoying strand of hair from his face ’‘You my dear, are very predictable.’’ Normally, Rainbow would have said something against him for saying that, but she was much too interested in what he had to say. ’‘You rely on nothing else but brute force and speed. You go in a straight line, so I just had to figure out where you were going before you charged. And with all that speed, you made yourself tired and when you took a moment to rest, I charged and made you fall off your hooves.’’ Discord grinned. ’’If I wouldn’t have put on the brakes, you would have made a nice little trip through the air.’’
’‘Woah...’’ Rainbow said, breathtaken from the Spirit’s explanation. He had read her like a book, and not the egghead books that Twilight usually reads. An awesome book, like Daring Do but 20% cooler.
’‘Just because I preach chaos doesn’t mean I don’t know tactics.’’ Discord chuckled. ’’It takes more than good looks and strong magic to make life chaotic, you know.’’ He said, completely serious. ’‘Now come on, slowpokes!’’ He started trotting even faster, making the rest of the ponies and the young dragon groan.
Celestia was sitting in her throne room, enjoying a nice cup of tea brought to her by her loyal servants. It was a nice, quiet past time that she had made for herself to enjoy everyday. That is, until Discord came by.
She heard some shouting coming from the other side of the huge doors, she recognized some of the voices to belong to Twilight Sparkle, her friends, Spike and some stallion that she didn’t know the voice of. And Discord, of course. The doors flew open and Discord was standing on his forelegs with his hindlegs extended from a buck. He had an smirk on his face.
’‘Told you...’’ He smiled to the other stallion, who was a big, red piece of pure muscle. He was almost as big as Celestia, but he was much broader than her because of his muscles. Celestia felt some drool tickle down her chin, but she wiped it off swiftly.
’‘Hiya Shiny!’’ Discord chirped as he trotted inside, followed by the rest of his merry crew of ponies and a dragon. Celestia forced a smile as Discord helped himself to sit in Luna’s throne. ’‘Where’s Luna?’’ Discord looked around the room, behind the throne and even beneath it.
’‘She’s in the ballroom, preparing it with a few servants to help her.’’ Celestia stood up from the throne and walked down the steps leading up to her and her sister’s throne. She walked up to her student, leaned down to her and gave her an affectionate nuzzle, which Twilight answered to immediately. Celestia turned her attention to the red behemoth, who bowed clumsily and almost tripped on his own hooves, which Twilight and Discord found to be hilarious.
’‘Princess.’’ Macintosh bowed. Celestia motioned for him to stand back up again.
’‘There’s no need for that when you’re with the Elements of Harmony, you know.’’ Celestia smiled softly. ’’A friend of Twilight’s is a friend of mine. So, what’s your name?’’
’‘Mah name’s Big Macintosh, yer Highness. Ah’m AJ’s brother an’... An’...’’ Big Macintosh took a deep breath to calm his nerves. ’’An’ Ah’m gonna be Twilight’s date tonight.’’ He hoofed the ground nervously while looking down at the floor. Twilight however, was blushing profusely.
’‘Ooooh~ ’’ Celestia cooed, making Twilight blush even more and forcing Mac to drop his jaw. Discord just cocked an eyebrow and clicked his tongue. An awkward silence fell onto the throne room, Discord stood up and stretched his back. He trotted down the steps from the throne and went down the hall, heading straight for the ball room where Luna hopefully still was. Rainbow Dash turned around to watch him leave, just to see his fla-...
’’No! He’s with Princess Luna for Pete’s sake! Stop thinking like that. Plus, he’s kind of mean! ’’ Rainbow chastised herself ’‘But he does look good...’’ Rainbow bit her lip and shook her head, clearing her head from those thoughts.
’’I have to go and make the last adjustments to our dresses. Fluttershy, darling, could you be a dear and help me with it?’’ Rarity excused herself and turned to leave. The butteryellow pegasus nodded and trotted up to the fashionista. But just before Rarity left the room, she pouted and gave Twilight a good-old fashioned stink-eye.
’’Ah think they’re a lil’ jealous of ya, Twilight...’’ Macintosh pointed out the obvious. Twilight sighed and leaned towards him. Mac leaned down and nuzzled her cheek, making her giggle cutely.
’‘Yeah...’’ Twilight sighed again. She wanted to be with Macintosh, but jealous friends was not a funny thing to deal with.
oh shit rainbow what are you doing
A/N: Edited by frieD195. Yep, I had to divide the Gala chapter again to keep the schedule. Well, at least now it will be an extra chapter for you all to enjoy! In this chapter there's some heavy plot-juice for the sequel. Don't make it go to waste.
Discord was cantering down one of the many corridors in the castle while whistling a tune he made up as he went. He was on his merry way to the ball room, where Luna hopefully was. The Gala that was later this evening was something that he didn’t really look forward to, as that meant that he had to socialize with stuck-up Canterlot ponies. He had also been told to keep his wings hidden during the duration of the event.
But something was bothering him. It felt like a heavy presence who was awfully familiar was following his every step. He looked around to see nopony following him, but he still couldn’t shake the feeling that he was being watched by something.
The ominous presence made itself known through a dry, low chuckle which made Discord almost jump out of his coat. The laugh was eerily familiar. He gulped and continued his walk, but now he was walking much slower and his ears splayed back in fear. He could easily ignore a direct threat, but the feeling this situation gave him was much too ominous for him to ignore.
Another chuckle came, but this time from the ceiling. He whipped his head up to see nothing but the ceiling. His wings shot open on their own accord, as that was a common reaction pegasi had when they were surprised.
’‘You sure scare easily...’’ A disembodied voice spoke. Discord’s eyes widened as he realized what his tormentor was. It was himself, as the voice who spoke was his former voice which he had when he was still a draconequus. ’‘This is the most fun I’ve had in weeks, years even...’’
’‘What do you want?’’ Discord said, barely a whisper. He cleared his throat and steeled himself. ’‘Furthermore, where exactly are you?’’ The voice chuckled darkly as Discord finished speaking. He didn’t like this at all.
’‘Aren’t we being brave, hm?’’ The voice taunted him. Discord growled and scanned his surroundings for any signs of where the voice was coming from. ’‘You don’t have to look anywhere for me, as I’m in your mind. I am a part of you, after all...’’ Discord felt the air around him become colder for every passing moment. ’‘My intentions are not hostile, believe me.’’ Discord scoffed. He knew himself better than any living thing. One of the key factors was to be very careful to believe what he was saying.
’‘You probably want to take over our body and use it for your own benefits...’’ Discord growled. He heard an exasperated sigh coming from the back of his own mind.
’’I would usually do that, but I can’t do that if we don’t have a body to share anymore.’’ Discord noted that the voice sounded almost desperate, so he figured that the best thing was to listen on what it had to say. ’’It is crucial that you listen to every word that I say after this. Understood?’’
’‘Fine. Understood.’’ Discord nodded. He had a really bad feeling about where this was going. He sat down and listened intently. ’‘Continue then.’’ He heard another sigh before the voice spoke up again.
’‘When you are being shielded from your Periculum through that necklace, you are endangering yourself in many ways. The Periculum is what made us strong and immortal.’’ The voice was actually sounding desperate now, even slightly sad.
’’Wh-.. What do you mean?’’ Discord bit his lip in anticipation.
’’We are dying. We are not immortal anymore as long as you’re wearing that necklace. At this moment, we have the same life-span as the Elements of Harmony.’’ The voice wavered as he mentioned dying. Discord knew why it was so stressed. Discord was horrified at the thought of dying.
’’L-Liar!’’ Discord splayed his ears back and backed towards the wall. His rump made contact with the luxurious stone wall.
’’I told you to listen to me! Why do you think we were so easily injured? It was not because of our new, weak body, it was because our immortal strength had been removed! We will die, unless you remove. The. Necklace!’’ The voice was now near panic, and that fact made Discord very uneasy.
’’H-How?’’ Discord’s voice was barely a whisper. He couldn’t stop worrying about the implications this would make between him and Luna. He wouldn’t have the heart to say to Luna that he was a mortal.
’‘You have to remove the necklace and turn back into a draconequus. This pony body is much too weak to hold the full Periculum. It would waste away into nothing after a few years.’’ Discord scowled. He didn’t mind having a pony body anymore, as he wasn’t stared at and shunned anymore by other ponies. His draconequus form just brought him much more attention and fear.
’‘Great...’’ Discord muttered. ’‘I’ll never get to catch a break in my entire life...’’ A hum of agreement came from the voice. ’’I know that Celestia is the only one who can release me. Brute force won’t work this time as she reinforced the outer shell of the necklace.’’
’‘Then you must tell the princesses about it before it’s too late. Luna will not be happy and I am sure ’Ol Lady Buzzkill will be very skeptical.’’ Discord snortled at that statement, as that is probably exactly what Celestia would do. But telling Luna about it tonight would just destroy the entire evening for her, and she needed the fun that would be inevitable.
’‘I’ll tell them later.’’ Much later. He took a deep breath and continued his original walk down the corridor. Luna shouldn’t have to wait for him, and Discord could probably have a few good ideas for the decorations.
’‘Fine. I’ll remind you in my own way if you take too long to spill the beans.’’ With that, the presence disappeared without a trace of it being there the entire time. The air around Discord felt much lighter. He sighed and started trotting a little faster.
’‘Can you believe that Twilight would actually do this? Without telling us?’’ Rarity harrumphed. ’‘Unbelievable! Somepony with a little more class should be Big Mac’s date for the Gala...’’ Rarity pouted and turned her attention back to finishing the last details on the dresses.
’’I was going to ask him, but then Big Mac asked Twilight first...’’ Fluttershy whispered harshly as she hoofed Rarity her pin-cushion. ’‘And then Discord...’’ Fluttershy said almost dreamily, which made Rarity arch an eyebrow at her pegasus friend.
’’I presume that we shouldn’t really blame Big Macintosh. Almost everything changed when that glorified rat retu-’’
’‘You shouldn’t speak about things that you don’t understand, dear Rarity...’’ Discord growled as he walked inside the room where the ponies were working. Fluttershy squeaked in surprise and hid beneath a pile of discarded fabric. Rarity’s jaw dropped. ’‘Besides, I am not a rat. I am actually just pony, goat, deer, dragon, bat, lion, cockatrice and eagle. Get your facts straight before you open your trap.’’ He took a few warning steps toward Rarity while glaring straight into her eyes. Rarity backed away with every step forward he took.
’’I-uh... Buh... You... Mac... And...’’ Discord raised a swift hoof to silence the blabbering mare. Rarity snapped her mouth shut and sat down with her ears back. Fluttershy peeked at the situation escalating from beneath her haven.
’‘Let us take this from the beginning, then...’’ Discord walked around the room and took a good look at the intricate designs of the dresses Rarity had made. ’’I was minding my own business when Luna told me that a stallion was in need of my assistance. That stallion was no other than Big Macintosh.’’ He recapped the entire story of when he met and assisted Big Mac. Rarity didn’t say a single word during the whole story when Fluttershy giggled as he told them about hiding in the tree. ’’I gave them a push in the right direction and they’ve been handling it well so far.’’
’’I still think that she could have told us...’’ Rarity pouted. She was backed up by Fluttershy, who nodded at her friend’s words. Discord facehoofed and mumbled something that the mares wasn’t able to pick up.
’’I think it’s a good thing that she didn’t tell any of you.’’ The mares gasped. ’‘Isn’t she a grown mare? She is, and that means that she can make decisions without asking for permission from bitchy, jealous friends. ’’ Discord shook his head and turned around. ’’If I knew that it would be so easy to corrupt you all by adding a stallion, I would be king right now...’’
’‘You dirty, horrible little f-’’ Rarity was interrupted by Discord whipping around and propelling himself to stand just in front of her. Discord lowered his head and stared right into Rarity’s azure eyes with his crimson ones.
’‘Say that again... ’’ Discord pressed his head toward Rarity’s. ’‘Try your luck. ’’ As Rarity whimpered and sat down onto her flank with a thump, Discord smirked and turned to walk away from the room. ’‘I know corruption. Jealousy is one of the first stages to become corrupted. Be happy for Twilight instead.’’ After his sentence was finished, Discord trotted out into the hallway and continued on his merry way to reach the ballroom.
’’I suppose he’s right.’’ Rarity sighed. ’’We should be happy for her instead of being jealous and mean.’’ Rarity leaved the fabrics off Fluttershy, who stood up and shook the dust off her body.
’‘But if it doesn’t work between them?’’ Fluttershy pondered aloud.
’‘Then he’s mine... ’’ A manic grin embraced Rarity’s features. Fluttershy took a cautious step back away from her unicorn friend. Rarity rubbed her forehooves together. Oh, he would be hers . Forever . A soft chuckle escaped her. Fluttershy had pressed herself towards the wall to keep herself as far away from the now psychotic unicorn.
Discord was once again trotting through the corridors. He was humming quietly to himself as he rounded a corner. ’’Ah screw it... ’’ He thought as he started singing without a valid reason.
’‘Oh Please excuse me I don’t meant to alarm, and certainly I mean you no physical harm, I’m just the reigning King of Chaos here to rock your world so just sit tight and let this little story unfurl~’’ Discord sang as he cantered down the hall. Many of the servants stared at him as he was on his way to meet Luna.
’’My mission is simple; neverending strife, I’ll worm into your heart and then I’ll cut like a knife.’’ He trotted up to one of the female servants and booped her on her muzzle as he sang. The servant rolled her eyes walked off to finish her work. ’’My intentions are clear so just surrender your will, I’m a predator and I’m going in for the kill.’’
’‘Don’t hate me ‘cause I’m funny, don’t hate me ‘cause I’m beautiful, you should hate me ’cause I’m better then you.’’ He pointed his right hoof to a duo of Royal Guards. ’’I only want to party, I only want to play it cool. I’m beholden to seeing this through. I could trot around your little pony head, spreading white lies and whispers. I’m gonna tell you about your fickle pony friends.’’
A few of the guards started chasing the spirit, who just laughed and continued singing. ’‘Your rage is so hot, it blisters.’’ He turned around and scowled, making the guards skid to a halt. ’’I have your attention now, it’s futile to flee.’’ The Elements walked into the room to investigate what had caused such a commotion. Discord grinned. ’‘Your Elements of Harmony are worthless to me, so please, you can’t beat me just fire away. I’ll shrug it off and live to laugh another day.’’ Discord continued walking away, as the guards had returned to their posts.
’’My hatred and wisdom are a thousand years old, milennia trapped in stone and desolate cold.’’ Discord’s eyes narrowed. he trotted into the ball room and saw both Celestia and Luna discussing about something related to the Gala. Their attention snapped to the singing spirit. One in glee and one in exasparation. ’‘Your princess couldn’t save you, you have no hope. You’re hanging yourself, I’m just providing the rope.’’
Discord inhaled sharply and started bobbing his head. Luna and Pinkie Pie joined him soon after. ’‘Don’t hate me ‘cause I’m funny, don’t hate me ‘cause I’m beautiful, you should hate me ’cause I’m better then you.’’ Luna started laughing and Pinkie giggled the entire time. ’’I only want to party, I only want to play it cool. I’m beholden to seeing this through. I could trot around your little pony head, spreading white lies and whispers. I’m gonna tell you about your fickle pony friends. Your rage is so hot, it blisters.’’
As he finished singing, Discord whipped his head up and bowed. Almost everypony in the room stared at him with cocked eyebrows. ’‘Dramatic as always, I see...’’ Celestia remarked. Discord blew a childish raspberry in her direction, making Luna punch his shoulder.
’’At least I know when and how to appease a crowd, Shiny.’’ Discord rubbed his left hoof to the necklace. ’‘You know, just sitting on a throne all day isn’t really giving. You should try singing.’’ Discord grinned. ’‘Because me and Luna know that you aren’t a bad singer, after all.’’
Celestia’s eyes widened to what he was implying. She trotted to him and ushered him to move away from the crowd. ’‘How do you two know that..?’’ Her eyes narrowed as a threat, but Discord played it off.
’‘Let’s just say that when you sing in the shower, you forget to turn off the Overdrive on your royal pipes. What was that song you were singing yesterday...’’ He tapped a hoof to his chin. ’’Oh yes! Now I remember!’’ He cleared his throat. ’‘Tell me what you want, what you really, really wa- HRMFGH’’ Discord was interrupted by Celestia sticking her hoof into his open mouth.
’‘Shut. up. ’’ Celestia seemed to be horrified, as her eyes were darting from side to side. She removed her hoof from his mouth and wiped it off on his right shoulder. ’’If you ever mention this again, I will make you into a statue myself. ’’
Discord chuckled and shook his head as he trotted away from her. ’‘Whatever you say, Princess... ’’ Celestia wasn’t sure if she should be worried or not about Discord saying anything, as she had no idea of what he could be planning. Discord however, was just thinking about how he was going to reveal Celestia’s embarassing secret. As he passed a mirror, he could have sworn that he saw the reflection of his old draconequus body staring in disapproval at him. He disregarded it as his mind playing tricks with him. He walked up to Luna and nuzzled her behind her left ear. Her ear twitched and Luna leaned toward him.
’‘I’m exhausted...’’ Luna drawled and yawned. She hadn’t had the time to rest much today as she had been working hard to finish the preparations for the Gala.
’‘You can go and rest. I’ll finish up down here.’’ Luna gave him a deadpan stare. ’’...Okay, maybe that wouldn’t be the best idea...’’ He muttered. Luna kissed his cheek and Discord chuckled. Discord noticed Rainbow Dash staring at him and Luna momentarily, until she looked away.
’‘Thank you for the offer, but I can do this. I’ll have plenty of time to rest later on.’’ Luna walked off to finish the last of her work. Discord bit his lip. He had to tell her about his mortality, but he couldn’t stand making her, or seeing her upset. It had to be done though, no matter what...
’‘Luna!’’ Discord shouted. Luna turned back toward him with an innocent smile. He had to tell her, but he couldn’t find the willpower to do so. ’’I... I’ll see you later...’’ Luna nodded and walked to one of her advisors. Discord sighed and turned around to leave with his head low. His gaze wandered over the Elements of Harmony, eventually landing on Twilight Sparkle, who was making herself busy by being as close to Big Mac as possible. ’’I have to tell somepony...’’ He said beneath his breath and started walking slowly to her.
’‘Twilight?’’ He had never used just her first name, so she was surprised just to hear him say that. ’’I...’’ He looked away from her and to the floor. ’’I need to talk to you, It’s... Urgent.’’ During the time he had spent as a pony, he would never have guessed that it would have ended with this. Twilight glanced to her friends, who were all looking at Discord with troubled expressions. They had never seen Discord this... troubled. She nodded and started walking to a door leading out into the garden area. The Spirit followed her close behind. As they were out of earshot of the ponies inside, Twilight turned to him.
’‘What do you have to talk to me about?’’ Twilight thought that never in a million years, she would ever be sympathetic to the Spirit of Disharmony. But here she was, being concerned for him. Discord took a deep breath and looked up into the sky.
’’My Periculum is nearly gone, and... this will cause some... Certain implications.’’ Discord sighed and sat down. ’’My entire being is becoming torn down from the inside.’’ He looked up at the confused eyes of the lavender unicorn. ’‘I’m... I’m dying, Twilight Sparkle.’’
Twilight’s jaw dropped as soon as he uttered those words. Discord looked miserable, and Twilight could do net to nothing to help him. ’’H-how?’’ She stammered.
’‘Remember what I told you about the draconeqi?’’ Twilight nodded. ’‘Good. Basically, we need our special brand of magic to survive. Without it, we die of old age.’’ Discord was close to breaking down at any moment. ’‘This... Necklace Celestia put on me to restrain my magic is what will end my life...’’ Discord’s shoulders slumped. Twilight walked carefully to him, not daring to do anything that could aggravate him. She sat down just in front of him.
’‘How... How much time do you have left?’’ Twilight asked carefully. Discord met her gaze with his own. This was the first time Twilight got to see just how old Discord really was. His eyes were ones who had seen lives come and go without being affected.
’’I have the normal life-span of a pony right now, but in order for me to survive...’’ Discord closed his eyes and turned his head away from her. ’’I have to become a draconequus again... This pony body can’t handle all that raw magic power.’’
’‘Why didn’t you tell Luna?’’ Twilight sat down beside him. She felt bad for him right now, to be an immortal, and then have it all taken away from you... It must be a horrible feeling.
Discord bit his lip. ’’I... I just couldn’t... She would be devastated, and I can’t do that to her. She lost me once already, and I can’t do that to her again. If they remove the necklace, I would most probably lose control and wreak havoc again.’’ Discord laid down and covered his head with his hooves.
’‘You have to tell Luna and Celestia! I’m sure that they could help in one way or another...’’ Twilight poked his left shoulder. ’’You can tell them later, but now we have to prepare ourselves for tonight. Come on!’’ Twilight levitated him onto his hooves.
’’Oh joy... ’’ Discord muttered sarcastically.
’‘Lighten up, you don’t want to keep Luna waiting, do you~? Twilight sang. Discord rolled his eyes and started trudging to his room, where his suit was. Just before Twilight disappeared out of sight, Discord called after her.
’‘Twilight?’’ She turned towards him. ’‘Thanks... I really mean it. Thank you.’’ He smiled sheepishly. The bookworm smiled and saluted before she walked into the ball room again. Discord spread his wings and took off, heading straight for his room. With straight for his room, he meant flying around all of the castle towers at least four times and then flying to his room.
The Canterlot Castle was packed with guests who were there for the Gala, Everypony were wearing some kind of fancy clothing. This was an event truly for the elite. Everypony was mingling in the huge area which the Gala was in.
Big Macintosh was in other words, very uncomfortable. He glanced nervously around the crowd. With his size, he could easily tower most of the ponies present at the gala. Normally, that would have been a good thing, but when he had to squeeze his way through the crowd to get where he wanted to be, a daintier size would have been much better. Twilight Sparkle was standing next to him the entire time while talking to some ponies he had never seen before.
He was wearing a plain, black tuxedo with a white shirt and black tie. His hair had been combed properly. In a mare’s eyes, he would be a perfet date for an occasion like this. Twilight Sparkle was wearing a deep purple dress with dark lavender details. Her mane had been styled into a fashionable bun with a star-shaped pin. When Big Macintosh had seen her before they walked into the gala, he had been at loss of words and have been stuttering for a good five minutes.
He had no idea where the rest of the girls hade left, but he had caught a glimpse of Applejack talking to a light-blue pegasus stallion with a dark blue mane. He had frowned immediately as he had noticed them. It was in the nature of being an older brother, after all. He had also seen Rainbow Dash talk with a yellow mare which Mac had understood to be a wonderbolt.
A sudden tug on his sleeve made him look down at the mare looking up at him. ’‘Are you enjoying yourself?’’ Twilight asked expectantly.
’‘Ah’m tryin’ ta get used ta it... ’S so many ponies here an’ all...’’ He shuffled his hooves awkwardly. ’‘Ah’m not very good wi’ crowds, actually...’’ Mac muttered. Twilight nuzzled his shoulder in encouragement.
’‘Twily!’’ A stallion’s voice rose from the crowd and Twilight grinned. Mac looked around to search for the one who had spoken. He noticed a white unicorn stallion with a dark blue mane walking toward them. He was wearing a simple, red jacket with several badges. Walking next to him was a pink... alicorn?
’‘Shining!’’ Twilight squeaked and ran to the stallion. Mac stared at the two ponies in confusion as the pink alicorn came closer to him. Twilight nuzzled the stallion, who nuzzled bacl immediately. ’‘Shining, meet Big Macintosh. He’s... my date for tonight...’’ The stallion’s eyes narrowed and Mac gulped.
’‘Howdy.’’ He reached out with his left foreleg. Shining Armor grabbed his hoof with his own and shook it.
’‘Hey.’’ An awkward silence started, only to be interrupted by Cadance. The pink alicorn smiled and gave Twilight a hug.
’‘Nice to see you again, Twilight!’’ She lowered her head and whispered into the younger mare’s ear. ’‘You got yourself a real looker.’’ Cadence’s eyes wandered over Big Mac, who had begun talking with Shining. Twilight blushed at the alicorn’s remark.
’‘Nice to see you too, Cadance. And I know! He’s such a gentlecolt, too!’’ Twilight giggled like a schoolfilly with her former foalsitter. A fanfare coming from the staircase bought all of the ponies’ in the ball room’s attention. An advisor wearing a plain black tuxedo walked forward and adressed the crowd.
’‘Ladies and gentlecolts, I give you Her Royal Highness Princess Luna, and Lord Discord!’’ A murmur ran through the crowd as soon as Discord’s name was mentioned. Many of them in disapproval. The doors on the top of the staircase creaked open and out came the two aforementioned ponies.
Many of the mares gasped and swooned as Discord stepped through the doorway. He was wearing a charcoal tuxedo with the sleeves rolled up. Beneath the tuxedo was a crimson shirt with a golden pin on the left side of his chest. A black tie hung loosely around his neck and on his head was a grey fedora with white stripes. A sly grin was on his face the entire time as he walked down the staircase. He could have sworn that he heard a few mares shout some rather... mature things they’d do with him. A few whistles echoed through the room as he turned around to see Luna come down the stairs.
Collective gasps echoed through the room as Luna walked inside. A warm, fuzzy feeling escalated inside of his chest. Luna was wearing a midnight blue dress with metallic blue details. Her ethereal mane had been tied back in a pony tail which laid down her left side. On her hooves were silver horseshoes with diamond details. Discord could barely speak, even barely whisper as Luna came down to him and stood next to him. Luna giggled at Discord’s flabbergasted expression.
’‘Do you like what you see?’’ Luna battered her eyelashed and struck a pose. Discord felt a nosebleed coming on, but he shook his head and smiled.
’’Of course I do.’’ Discord chuckled and reached out with his right foreleg as an invitation. Luna giggled and grabbed his hoof with his own and they started their walk through the ballroom. Discord nodded in the direction of Shining Armor and Big Macintosh, when Luna smiled sheepishly to the Elements of Harmony. Rarity was staring at the duo with wide eyes.
Luna sighed and leaned toward Discord. ’’I can’t imagine what would have happened if you wouldn’t have accepted Celestia’s proposition all those weeks ago...’’ Luna thought about it from time to time, but she always stopped herself as she didn’t want to think of how it would be without him. Discord, however was contemplating on how and when he would tell Luna about his predictament. It could wait. Luna had to have some fun tonight without being bothered, he would tell her after the Gala.
But as of now? He was going to have some fun while he still could...
A/N 2: Remember in the earlier chapters were Discord told Twilight about his periculum, and that's what made him an immortal? I've had this bit planned ever since and it will be a key factor in the sequel. If you have any questions regarding it, don't be afraid to ask. I'll do my best to answer it accordingly. See ya next time around!
The Road's End is Another Beginning
A/N: Edited by frieD195! Please tell me if something feels weird, or even rushed. I made some slight adjustments before posting this, so I want to know if it turned out alright. Next chapter is the epilogue and some final notes + some information about the sequel. Enjoy! And now I'll go and feel sad as I put this as completed.
The Gala was in full swing. So far nothing had gone wrong, and everypony was enjoying themselves with this luxurious night at the castle. Discord, however was bored out of his mind. Luna had left him momentarily to find Celestia to talk with her about the evening so far. Discord was sitting in a corner, looking at the ponies present at the Gala. So far he had seen Mac, Shining Armor and the Elements of harmony. He had also been forced to decline numerous invitations to dance from several mares. He didn’t want to run off with another mare when he was originally at the Gala with Luna.
His gaze shifted to the announcer standing on top of the stairs on the opposite side of the room. The announcer had just presented griffin royalties. That gave him an idea for a way to have some fun... He made his way across the room, ignoring some... very inviting mares. As he had finally navigated through the room, he sighed in relief and trotted up the stairs. ’‘Hey, you...’’ He whispered harshly to the unsuspecting announcer. The announcer walked up to him. ’’I just got word about some griffin nobles arriving unprepared.’’ The announcer’s eyes widened. ’‘Their names are Ayama Deuce and An Anazrammer. Their names are weird because they’re from the southern part of their land.’’ Discord shooed him off. ’’Go on, do your job...’’ Discord held back a laugh as the announcer stepped forward.
’‘Fillies and Gentlecolts; I am a douche and an ass-rammer!’’ The announcer choked on his breath as he realized that he had just made a complete fool of himself. Discord, however, was lying a few feet back from him and rolling on the floor while howling with laughter. The crowd erupted with waves of laughter and the poor announcer had to leave the room. The spirit stood up and looked down at the crowd below and mock-saluted.
’‘Thank you, thank you! I’ll regrettably be here all night!’’ He walked to the staircase and started laughing again.
’‘Pri-hi-hiceless!’’ Discord wiped his eyes with his left hoof. He cantered down the staircase while snickering wildly. Standing by the bottom of the staircase was Luna and she did not look happy. Discord gulped and walked to her with his ears back. ’’Hi there, beautiful!’’
’‘Hello to you too.’’ Her eyes narrowed.
’‘I’m... I’m in trouble, aren’t I?’’ Discord deflated and waited for the scolding of a lifetime. Discord flinched as Luna took an ominous step toward him, only to become confused as Luna gave him a peck on the cheek. ’‘Huh?’’
’’I like seeing you confused.’’ Luna winked and Discord grinned. ’‘But what you did to Golden Scribe wasn’t very nice.’’ Luna positioned herself to stand just beside him. ’‘Come on, I want to introduce you to some ponies.’’
’‘Happy days... ’’ Discord drawled sarcastically. Luna pouted and used her magic to give him a push. Discord stumbled forward and started walking with his ears back. ’‘Where’s Tia?’’
’‘She’s conversing with griffin nobles and royalties in one of the less populated areas of the Gala-area.’’ Discord nodded absent-mindedly. Luna lead him through the crowded room. The ponies in their way moved as they noticed that a princess was walking toward them. Discord saw Mac and Twilight dancing awkwardly with eachother. They were just stepping from side to side. Twilight rested her head on his left shoulder and Macintosh was holding his head onto hers. Discord saw a small group of ponies which Luna was leading him to. ’‘Fancy Pants, meet Discord.”
The white unicorn stallion with a light blue mane turned toward them and bowed. His eyes wandered over onto Discord, who shuffled awkardly with his hooves. The classy unicorn focused his magic and adjusted his monocle. ’’Ah! Jolly good to meet you!’’ He grabbed Discord’s right hoof and shook it forcefully. ’‘Princess Luna was talking about you and you were such a fine character that I just had to meet you. But do forgive me when I do say that I was expecting something... Bigger’’
’‘Yeah, you know, Luna here also thought that I’d be a little bigger as a pony. And to be honest, so did I. There was nothing wrong about being a draconequus, but you know, constant chaos and all that jazz...’’ Discord sighed. Constant chaos... That was his true being, a monster bent on disharmony. He shook his head and smiled weakly.
One of the mares in the group gasped and spoke up. ’‘You mean... You are that terrible creature who nearly destroyed all order in Equestria?’’ The mare was horrified, and some of her peers soon followed in panicking. The room started feeling awfully warm for Discord.
’‘Yes... I am... that monster...’’ Discord looked at the floor. ’‘...Just a monster. ’’ His ears dropped and he sighed. Luna placed her left wing on his back and held him toward her side. ’‘And you know what?’’ Discord looked the mare straight in her eyes. ’’I enjoyed causing havoc. I was too caught up in wreaking chaos everywhere I went that I missed what was really important.’’ Discord looked at Luna. ’‘All of that is in the past and I intend to keep it in the past, so drop it.’’ He hissed and the mare took a step away from him.
’‘Well, I never!’’ The mare huffed and walked away with her head held high. Discord snorted a small puff of mist from his nostrils. Luna stroked a hoof through his mane, effectively calming him down significantly.
’‘Don’t mind Upper Crust, she’s a pain in the behind and has always been one.’’ Fancy Pants muttered and shook his head. ’‘Now onto some more happier news! I heard from Luna that you were going to-HMPF’’ Luna stuck a hoof into his mouth in panic while shaking her head rapidly. Discord arched and eyebrow at his marefriend’s strange behaviour. As he removed the hoof, she squeaked her apologies, but Fancy Pants just smiled and shook his head.
’‘I’m going to what?’’ Discord repeated what he knew after listening to the interrupted high-class stallion. Luna’s eyes darted from side to side. ’‘What’s going on here?!’’ Discord raised his voice.
’‘You’re... You’re going to come with me and talk to the Twilight Sparkle and her friends!’’ Discord could read Luna like a book; she was hiding something from him... But what? He would have to find out later. He’d play along for now though. He nodded and followed Luna again. Luna glanced back at Fancy Pants and made a quick zipping motion over her mouth with her right forehoof. The classy stallion nodded and went back to his little group of flank-kissers.
Big Macintosh was sitting next to a wall with Twilight leaning toward him. This night had been a success, even with a few mares asking him to dance with them when he was here with Twilight. Twilight sighed happily and snuggled into his shoulder. ’‘Are ya tired?’’ He asked as he nuzzled the top of her head.
’’A little.’’ She shrugged. Twilight would have to thank Discord for doing this for Big Mac and her. She stopped moving momentarily as she thought about the spirit who had lost almost his entire being. She would never understand how it would feel to lose all of one’s innate magic like he had. When he had first met her, he had just removed her horn, not her magic. ’‘But if I take it easy for a while then I’ll be okay in a matter of minutes.’’ She smiled and Mac tsked at her adorkable behaviour.
’‘Mac and Twilight, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G~ ’’ Discord’s playful voice shattered the moment between the two. Twilight sighed and Mac rolled his eyes. The spirit in question cantered happily toward them. Luna was following him with an apologetic smile. ’‘Aww, look at you two!’’ Discord cooed. in an obvious mocking tone. ’‘Before we all know it, you’ll be getting married and having foals!’’ Discord snickered at the thought. ’‘And I will be Crazy ’Ol Uncle Discord! It has a certain ring to it, right?’’ Discord grinned as Mac and Twilight blushed. Luna punched the spirit playfully.
’‘Leave them to tend to their own relationship, Dissy...’’ Discord cringed as Luna used the nickname she never used while adressing him in public. Mac snortled and Twilight lifted a hoof to her mouth to conceal her snickering. Luna smiled innocently. Discord shrugged it off like a champ, though.
’‘But it’s just so fun to meddle in other ponies’ relations!’’ Discord whined, but Luna gave him a disarming glare which made Discord stop immediately. Nothing is more frightening then an angry mare, after all.
’‘Yeah, list’n ta yer mare, Dissy... ’’ Big Mac chortled and recieved a glare from the unamused spirit. Discord rolled his eyes and sighed. Yep, that nickname would follow him everywhere he went now...
’’I have to go and check on the progress between my sister and the griffins. I’ll be back in about half an hour, depending if I have to interfere.’’ Luna gave Discord a long kiss which lasted for a couple of seconds. She shuddered as she pulled away from it. ’’Be nice...’’ She whispered into his left ear. Discord nodded dumbfounded. As Luna walked away, Discord felt his cheeks heat up, but he rubbed his face with his forehooves and looked away.
’‘Dang...’’ Macintosh whispered.
Discord’s mind wandered off to his predictament. Would he ever have the guts to say what’s happening to him? How would Luna react? Would Celestia even believe him when he told them? Hell, would even Luna believe him? He decided to wait and find out when he would eventually tell them. But he couldn’t do it today, he didn’t even know if he could do it tomorrow. He would have to wait for the right opportunity to tell them all about it.
He felt like he had to find something to drink, preferably something wuth liquid confidence, also known as alcohol. But Luna had told him that the Gala was an alcohol-free event. One good thing was that he knew where Celestia hid her booze... He rubbed his forehooves together in anticipation and wandered off to collect his booty.
About five minutes later, Discord was trotting into the throne room again with a slight wobble in his step. His pockets on the tuxedo clinked from time to time as he trekked through the room, heading straight for the table where the refreshments were.
He glanced around suspiciously to see if nopony was looking at him. When he was satisfied with nopony staring at him, he reached into the pocket on his left side and pulled out a large bottle of fine scotch. He unscrewed the bottle gently and deposited the contents of the bottle into the bowl of punch. After being satisfied with the result, he stirred it a couple of times for good measure and hid the bottle beneath the table.
He moved onto the other bowl of punch, but this time he pulled out a bottle of Moonshine. The spirit had no idea of how Celestia had gotten hold of any, and why she hadn’t told him of it. He did the same with this bottle as he did with the bottle of scotch. He left some moonshine in the bottle and took a long, satisfactory swig to empty the bottle completely. He burped and yet again, hid the bottle beneath the table.
He took a cup of the punch mixed with scotch and walked back into the crowd, disappearing like a much less than graceful drunken ninja. Discord snickered as ponies started drinking more and more punch with every passing minute. After a while, Celestia herself came to take some punch for herself. She took the punch mixed with Moonshine. Her eyes narrowed and she smacked her lips after taking a sip. She shrugged it off and walked away to talk with some of her subjects. Discord had to fight to not laugh as Celestia’s balance faded in and out from time to time.
Luna walked toward him, but stopped momentarily as she smelled the air around him and noticed the way he was standing to keep his balance. He grinned and walked toward her. Luna lifted her right foreleg and placed it on his chest while looking him dead in the eyes. ’‘Discord. Have you been drinking?’’ Discord frowned and looked away.
’’No...’’ He wobbled and had to sidestep to not fall over. ’’...Maybe...’’ Discord fell over onto his side ungracefully and flailed his arms like a helpless foal. ’‘What... What was the question again?
Discord braced himself with his forelegs and pushed to stand. He wobbled to the left as soon as he stood up. ’‘Are you drunk?’’ She repeated the question, but this time it was simplified for him to understand while in his current state.
Discord squinted. He had to play this off gracefully or he would be in some big trouble. He clicked his tongue and tsked. How hard could it be to just say no? Well... Very hard by the look of the situation. He decided to flatter her to win her over. ’‘Your... Your face is...’’ Oh right, he had been drinking, after all... ’‘Drunk...’’ Yep, he said that her face was drunk.
Luna facehoofed. A hammered coltfriend was something that she really didn’t need right now. A gasp rained through the crowd, making Luna groan and turn her attention to the crowd. What she saw was something that she’d never forget; Celestia was wobbling from side to side while scolding Prince Blueblood. She ran to her sister to remove her from the public eye.
’‘And... And you think you look so good when... When I have seen dragons who look better than you. Dragons! You’re... You’re irresponsible and a disgrace for the Platinum family, you ungrateful little sh-’’ Luna interrupted her just in time.
’‘Celestia!’’ Luna gasped and took hold of her sister, who gave her a bone-crushing hug which made Luna gasp desperately for air. Luna took this opportunity to focus her magic and teleport to Celestia’s quarters. When they were in Celestia’s room, Luna levitated her loving sister away from her and laid her on her bed. Celestia was asleep within seconds. She sighed and teleported back to the throne room.
To her horror, Discord was nowhere to be found. She looked around in panic, just to see no sign of the missing spirit. The very familiar, albeit slurred voice of Fancy Pants echoed through the hall
’‘Which one of you peasants stole my monocle?!’’ He glared daggers at the ponies standing around him. Luna snortled as she realized that he was a mean drunk. A pair of guards approached him and took him down. He was wildly protesting as he was lead out from the room by the guards. She continued her search for the mischevious spirit.
In the far side of the throne room, she found Discord snoozing while curled up in a ball of goldish-grey fur and messy gray hair. In his right nostril was the ‘stolen’ monocle. She giggled and levitated him with her. She found an advisor and told her to cut the Gala short because of the alcohol problem. The advisor didn’t question her decision and ran off to complete her task.
Luna teleported back to her room with Discord in tow. She laid him on her bed and removed his clothing. He stretched his right hindleg and scratched it behind his ear like a dog and rolled over onto his back. Luna removed her own clothing and accessories and joined him in her bed. Discord snuggled into her neck and sighed contently. Luna kissed him on his forehead and fell asleep too soon after.
As the first sunrays of the morning creaked through the windows, Discord struggled not to shout obscenities due to his ravaging headache. He pulled the cover over him completely and clutched his head with his forehooves. Maybe it wasn’t a very good idea to drink yesterday, after all... He lifted the cover to see a glass of water and a painkiller waiting for him at the nightstand beside the bed. He silently thanked Luna and threw the painkiller into his mouth and downed the water.
The door into the room creaked open slightly, and the princess of the night walked inside carefully. ’‘Discord..?’’ Luna asked. Discord removed the cover completely and sat up while groaning. Yup, drinking wasn’t a very bright idea... ’‘How are you feeling?’’
’‘Like my head was stomped on by a buffalo...’’ Luna giggled and walked inside. She had been tending to her sister as well, and had called off all court duties today for both of the princesses. They needed some time off, after all. Luna bit her lip and climbed up onto the bed to sit next to him.
She took a deep breath and prepared to say something that would change both of their lives together. ’‘Discord... I have something that I have to tell you...’’ She looked straight into his crimson eyes. ’‘It’s about... Us.’’
Discord’s ears flattened to his skull. She wasn’t... She wasn’t breaking up with him or anything? Discord gulped and laid his right forehoof on her left hoof. ’‘Wha-.. What is it?’’ Discord leaned forward, ready to beg for forgiveness and redemption if he had to. Luna looked away from him and onto the floor. How was she supposed to tell this to him? How would he even react? She sighed.
Luna lifted his forehoof, looked at it for a couple of seconds, and then straight into his eyes again. They were filled with concern. She smiled weakly and brought his hoof to her stomach and held it there. After a while, Discord’s eyes widened and his jaw dropped. He stared into her eyes for confirmation, and a twinkle from her eyes as she nodded gave him the confirmation he needed.
’‘You... You’re...’’ Before Discord could ask the entire question, Luna nodded and silenced him with a short kiss. After the kiss, Discord’s entire face lit up as he grinned. This is what he wanted. This is what he always needed. This is what he sometimes dreamed of becoming.
A father.
Our Precious (Epilogue)
The white walls and the disinfecting stench inside the hospital did nothing but unnerve the pacing sprit with every passing moment. Discord could hear the pained wails coming from Luna as she gave birth. Discord gritted his teeth and growled silently. He felt so helpless when there was nothing he could do to relieve Luna of her agony. He wasn’t allowed to enter the room she was in, as the doctors had ordered him to stay put. Luna’s painful, strained smile as he left the room was etched into his brain. Celestia had refused to leave the room though, and the doctors had allowed her to stay.
He snarled and tried to think of something else, just about anything that would relieve his troubled mind, but to no avail. 13 months had passed since the Gala when Luna told him, and 15 months after he had been turned into a pony. Over the course of a year, Discord had been brought into the public eye as a changed pony. He was still pranking and making fun of Celestia and the Elements, but he had calmed down over time. It took 13 months for the foal to evolve, as 11 months is the time for an earth pony, and 12 is for a pegasus, or a unicorn when they evolve their extra limbs, such as wings or a horn. But Luna and Discord’s foal was an alicorn, so it took two months longer than the normal expectancy.
The initial reaction to the Lunar princess bearing the foal of the Embodiment of Chaos caused havoc in court and in high society, but with the help of Celestia, Fancy Pants, his wife, Fleur De Lis and the Elements, Discord and his coming foal had been accepted, praised even by some. Discord had also been interpreted of a symbol for change for some ponies.
Another wail of pure agony rocked the hospital, making Discord pin his ears to his skull and start pacing around in a circle. He had never been a patient creature, but this was just torture. He hated this, he wanted to do just something to help her, but he would only get in the way and probably make it worse with his actions. An irritated groan escaped the spirit as he contined his stubborn trudging.
The procedure had lasted for about five hours, and Discord had been forced to leave the room three hours ago. He was absolutely in no mood to just sit back and wait for any signs from the doctors inside. He clicked his tongue and took a deep breath. He had to calm down. There was no help in being annoyed or restless. But those two feelings were hard to avoid in his current situation.
After three consecutive screams, all of which raised in volume with every scream, silence followed. There was no more screaming, just a few tiny, soft cries which made Discord perk his ears immediately. He understood that it was finished after all these hours of stress, anger, anticipation and finally, relief.
About ten minutes after the screaming stopped, the doors opened for a very disheveled Solar princess. Her ethereal mane was drooping and she had bags beneath her eyes. She was exhausted, but she was still smiling. Fresh tears of joy were still in the corner of her eyes. A doctor followed her and walked past the princess. The doctor sighed and brushed a hoof through his mane. He looked straight into Discord’s eyes and smiled.
’’Do you want to see your daughter?’’ He asked politely. Discord’s mouth hung open. He had a daughter... Discord grinned and nodded ferociously. The doctor chuckled and moved out of the way, allowing Discord to pass him. Discord trotted in a brisk pace, giving the exhausted doctor trouble to keep up. ’‘Princess Luna is sleeping. The birth took a lot out of her, but she will be just fine when she wakes up.’’ The doctor started panting a little as Discord further increased his pace.
After five minutes of navigating through the corridors, they reached a room with a giant glass window. On the other side of the glass was Celestia and Twilight Sparkle. The doctor raised his hoof to his mouth and hushed, indicating that Discord had to be as silent as possible. Discord nodded once again and followed the doctor into the room. Inside the room were numerous cradles, each containing a different filly or colt of all kinds of pony races. The doctor headed to one specific cradle in the corner by the room and stopped next to it. Discord looked at the doctor, who nodded and smiled.
Discord walked carefully to the cradle and peeked inside. His heart fluttered as he saw the tiny filly lying inside. She was an extremely pale cornflower blue, and her mane was navy blue with soft pink highlights. Her tiny horn was barely visible through the wrap around her. Tiny wings sprouted from her back, and the tips of the wings were the same pink colour as the highlights in her mane. The spirit felt his lower lip quiver as he nuzzled the foal as carefully as he possibly could.
As he straightened his neck again, he looked over at the doctor. ’’C-Can I..?’’ He asked hesitantly. Twilight and Celestia smiled as they saw the baffled spirit. The doctor just waved a dismissing hoof.
’’Of course you can, she’s your daughter after all...’‘ The doctor whispered and turned around to leave the spirit with his daughter in privacy. ’‘I’ll come back in ten minutes. I have to go and check on Princess Luna. Congratulations.’’ Discord thanked the doctor as he closed the door behind him.
Discord picked up his daughter as carefully as he could and sat down in the corner with his back toward the wall. He started rocking her back and forth, all while smiling weakly. A tiny yawn escaped the filly as she nuzzled into Discord’s chest. The spirit felt a tear of pure joy and thankfulness roll down his cheek and spot the floor.
He took a breath and nuzzled the filly’s head again. He started humming as he rocked her back and forth. The tune he hummed was one he had sung to Luna over a year ago.
’’She came with the spring As birds start to sing The queen of the fairies dance I joined I took the chance
Now bittersweet memories So bittersweet
A lover's dream like a star in the sky To pass away like a sweet Lullaby Tell me why did the fire die
Tell me why Like a star in the sky A soothing breeze like a sweet lullaby A lover's cry Farewell... Goodbye...’’
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Bonus Chapter 1 - Discolt
Discord was standing on a podium, glancing nervously to the other alicorns inside the room. Princess Luna was standing next to him, trying without success to calm the spirit down. Discord gulped and whispered, ''Do I really have to do this? He punctuated his sentence by giving Luna his best puppy-dog stare. Luna nodded and closed her eyes. Over the months, her stomach had been getting bigger and bigger.
''Yes, Discord. But don't worry; Cadance and Celestia will just try and use a simple spell to see if your magic resistance has lowered.'' She stated matter-of-factly and Discord huffed and sat down. Celestia was reading through some notes and theories about the natural resistance of ponies. Cadance had volunteered to help as Twilight Sparkle was too busy in Ponyville to come all the way to Canterlot for a simple experiment. Discord pouted as Cadance approached him with a smile.
''Are you ready?'' She chirped happily. Discord shook his head.
''No.'' He closed his eyes and ignored the young alicorn in front of him.
''Well, too bad.'' Cadance focused her magic and a bubble formed around the spirit. Discord glared at the pink alicorn who stuck out her tongue at him. ''That's what you get for taking Shining to a Strip club!'' She growled. Luna's eyes narrowed and she turned her head toward Discord in a creepily slow manner. Oh, the rage of a pregnant mare...
''Strip club?'' She said. Her voice was cold as ice, and Discord panicked.
''OH WELL, LET'S GET ON WITH THIS EXPERIMENT NOW, PLEASE.'' He said, much louder than needed. Celestia nodded in agreement with the spirit and started feeding her own magic to the bubble around him. Discord writhed and struggled against the magical bonds as he floated up into the air. An impromptu gust of wind ran through the room as the third alicorn capable of using magic joined her sister and niece.
Discord grunted and shouted over the hum the magic caused. ''What is this spell, anyway?!''
''Youthification spell!'' Celestia answered him.
''Wait, what?!'' Before Discord could protest any further, the bubble around him flashed and he felt himself slipping out of conciousness. The mares crowded around him, eager to see the finished product of their 'experiment'.
Discord cracked his eyes open and groaned. He rubbed his left hoof to his eyes, He continued to stand up and stretch his back. The first thing he noticed around him was that everything looked a lot... Bigger than usual. He turned to see Luna staring at him with her eyes glimmering and a small, silly smile on her face. ''What?!'' Discord asked forcefully. He clamped his mouth shut as he heard his own voice. Instead of it being deep, he was reminded of that Ponyville filly... Scootaloo was her name. Luna squealed in delight at his voice and he rolled his eyes.
The door leading into the room opened and Cadance walked inside. When she saw Discord, she squeaked and dashed to him and picked him up without trouble. Discord was to say the least, very confused. ''Get me a mirror. Now!'' He demanded, but winced as his voice cracked, making both of the princesses in the room squee.
Luna however, obeyed him and levitated a small mirror to him. Discord took a deep breath and braced himself, then looked into the mirror.
Discord growled and batted away the mirror with his right forehoof. He squeaked involuntarily as he did it, making the princesses overdose on adorable once again. The door opened once again, but this time Princess Celestia walked inside. ''Aww! He's adorable!'' Celestia cooed and tuzzled the now young spirit's mane. The spirit groaned and smacked away her hoof, emitting a giggle from the solar princess.
''Shut up and change me back...'' Discord pouted, making the three princesses around him squee at his adorable pout. The spirit bit his lip and looked away from them with his ears flattened to his skull.
''Why should we? You're just too adorable now~'' Luna spoke up in an obvious mocking tone. Discord sighed and shook his head.
''I hate you all so much right now...'' Discord growled and turned to Celestia. ''Especially you. I bet you planned all of this...'' Celestia played innocent and lifted a hoof to her chest. Discord shouted a few obscene words, which I really shouldn't type down. Nasty stuff.
''Spoil sport...'' Cadance pouted and activated her magic. The same bubble as before appeared around Discord and after a flash, he was back in his adult form. He growled as he trotted past the laughing princesses and leaped through one of the windows leading out to the garden,
''So, did anypony tell him that his wings won't work for five hours after the spell affected him?'' Celestia asked casually as she laid down on the couch where Discord had been sleeping. A somewhat girly scream came from the window where Discord had left, which lowered in volume as seconds passed, followed by a painful and audible smack.
''Nope.''
Bonus Chapter - Daddy Discord Vs. Diapers
Discord took a deep breath as he placed the small, happily gurgling filly onto the table in front of him. He had prepared himself mentally for this day for weeks, but today was the day when he would prove his abilities in taking care of Era at the best of his abilities.
It was his turn to change Era's diaper.
The smell coming from the filly was hard to miss, as the awful stench had spread to the hall outside, making the servants and guards who passed them wrinkle their snouts in obvious disgust. But Discord was prepared, unlike them. He was prepared by having both of his nostrils plugged. Era had of course found that to be hilarious.
Without his magic and his wings being sore from a recent flight, he had no choice but to do this horrid task with his mouth. He shuddered in obvious disgust before he took another deep breath and started. The flaps to the diaper were open without any issues. He then followed the instructions he had been given by a nurse. It didn't take long until Era was once again wearing a clean diaper once again. She gurgled in approval and flailed her forelegs in glee.
Discord looked around the room for a trashcan so he could dispose of the diaper, as he knew that if he would throw it out the window, the castle gardeners would repay the favor by chucking the remains of the diaper at him the next time he would go outside. A small trashcan was standing next to the door, so he picked up the diaper with obvious disgust and trotted toward the door.
Just as he was standing by the trashcan, the door swung open to make way for Princess Luna. Era squeaked and held out her forelegs as soon as Luna entered the room, but Discord was in a much, much worse situation. The door had collided with the diaper, making it swing around and smack right into Discord's face, exploding like an overfilled waterballoon when it flew into him.
”It's in my eyesss !” Discord hissed. Luna winced and had to fight back a sudden urge to vomit. Era just laughed like never before.
And that's how everything went to shit, both figuratively and literally.
Author's Note
I was supposed to write an update for Rebellion but this happened instead... Welp... Enjoy, I guess...
Remember, the bonus chapters have no set timeline, so I could jump back to when Era still wasn't born in another chapter. The bonus chapters are basically whatever happened between the end of When The Wind Changes to the prologue of Through Changes.
HAH! I REMEMBERED TO USE THIS AUTHOR'S NOTES THINGY! WHAT NOW!?
Challenge Bonus Chapter 1 - Era's New Spell
Luna just couldn't help but laugh. Granted, Era was confused and Discord was screaming in pain, but still...
Ten minutes prior...
Era walked through the halls of the castle looking for her father, with as much of a pensive look as a filly her age could manage. She didn't understand what the book meant about the spell, but she just had to know what it would do - it was the only spell she could actually accomplish in the whole book. She finally found her father in the royal library. She trotted up to him and pulled on his tail, she found that it was the best way to get his attention.
“Daddy, could you help me test this new spell?”
“Let go of my tail, sweetie.” He said, barely holding back a yelp of pain. “Thank you. Now, what do you need help with?”
Era, adapting a pouty look, repeated to her father “I need to test a spell!” Discord, smiled at his daughter, assuming it was something simple like changing his mane color or a new prank spell, possibly both. Celestia looked better in pink, according to him, and he wasn't one to stop harmless chaos. The poor, unsuspecting fool knew naught of what would happen.
“Of course, honey. What do you need me to do?” Era, focusing on the spell, simply grunted.
“Stand still.” Discord, did so, and his daughter unleashed the spell.
Luna looked into her daughter's room. She had been hoping to have a chat about putting all of that pink hair dye in her sister's bottle of Shampoo, but could not find the filly. She did, however, find a book entitled “Convenient Offensive Spells for Young Mares” which lay open on her bed. Walking over to it, Luna saw a particular entry was circled.
Now...
Luna just couldn't help but laugh. Granted, Era was confused and Discord was screaming in pain, but still. Still chuckling, she walked over to her husband. She'd have to make sure the offensive books were kept out of Era's reach in the future, but for now, she could relax and enjoy the family moment.
“I THINK SHE BURNED OFF THE LEFT ONE!” Even if Discord couldn't enjoy it.
Author's Note
This was written by Mr. Tanokki ! This was a prompt where an author would write a scenario where Era had learned a combat spell and used it on Discord. The prompt is still open, and you can still write something and I'll add it as a chapter here! If you have a question, feel free to ask away!
I gave this a quick editing sweep before posting, and we all know how good I am at that...
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Challenge Bonus Chapter 2 - Era Shoots Discord
Challenge Bonus Chapter 2 - Era Shoots Discord
Before the sun had had a chance to break over the horizon, a pair of ponies had been walking around the castle grounds through the brisk morning air looking for a secluded spot away from prying eyes.
"But daaaad, why do we have to do this so early?"
"I've already told you, its a lot easier to get away with noisy practice just as everypony's about to wake up. That way nopony can be mad at you for waking them up." The auburn alicorn stallion told his indigo daughter.
"What are we doing here anyways?"
"I already told you Era were going to practice some basic self defense spells. Because as a member of the royal family there may be someponies who may try and hurt you, or if you ever get the urge to attack random ponies on the streets that's fine too."
"Alright, what's the first spell?"
"The first spell my little pony shall be a basic fireball." Said the stallion as the pair arrived behind an out-of-the-way shed. There had already been some targets set up, as well as some mild explosives in case of severe boredom. The targets ranged from bunnies to Changelings to a cardboard cutout of Princess Celestia herself.
Positioning himself several yards away from the Celestia cutout the stallion lowered into a fighting stance, and pointed his horn towards the piece of cardboard. Magic began to pour into his horn, and Era could feel the temperature rise ever so slightly. Then suddenly a small orange orb sparked into life. The indigo filly was entranced by the raw magic given form. The colors within the iridescent ball of energy fluttered wildly shifting from a deep crimson to a pulsing orange then a bright yellow and finally a white that threatened to outshine the sun.
CRACK. The ball of fire tore through the air, and reduced the chunk of cardboard, and a good chunk of the sheds wall, to a smouldering pile of ash.
"That, Era my dear, is one of the most basic offensive spells one can learn. I hope you paid attention because I don't feel like repeating myself."
"Wow dad that was awesome. Does that mean I'll be able to blow up buildings too?"
"Era what I showed you was the spell at slightly less than its full potential so I'm afraid that the best you're going to be able to do is set some of these targets on fire." Era's disposition quickly turned south." Seeing this the father took quick action. "But don't worry I'm sure you'll get the hang of this, and be blowing up all in your path in no time." The smile she now wore warmed the stallions heart.
"Alright now it's you turn to set stuff on fire kiddo. The first thing you wanna do is take careful aim. Remember to look from the tip of your horn and down to your target." The dark blue filly took a stance similar to that of her father. "Next you'll want to gather some magic into your horn slowly, and not too much don't hurt yourself."
A dark blue aura had begun to seep from the base of her horn, and soon creeped up to the tip. "Good, now try to envision the spark you saw me make earlier, and just a spark. After you have done that hold it with your telekinesis while feeding the spark ever so little with magic." This part proved to be a bit more difficult, but soon enough she mastered it too. "Now comes the tricky part, you'll have to expand your telekinesis, and feed the spark at the same time don't worry if you don't get it the first time." Era could see the spark at the end of her horn grow ever so slightly, and then more and more. The ball of scarlet flame grew wild, and she could feel its heat seep into her. Soon enough the heat was more than she could endure, her concentration collapsed as did the telekinetic barrier around the ball imploded causing the orb to flare, and explode in front of her. Luckily the ball was no larger than the size of a bit so only a small scorch mark marred the end of her horn.
Rubbing her horn and removing a small ache Era tried again, and again failing more times than she could count. After each failure the smile on her fathers face dropped slightly causing a pang of worry to shoot through her mind. At this point the sun was well over the horizon, and her patience had grown thin.
"Dad isn't there anyway you can help me more?"
"Hmm well I suppose I could share with you one of my experiences with the spell, and that may help you with your trouble. How does that sound?"
"Alright lets give it a shot." Era said, her enthusiasm renewed.
The brown stallion lowered his horn to hers, hovering less than an inch away. Then with a flash of dark brown energy an arc of electricity jumped from the stallion to the filly. What neither of them saw, was a single strand of yellow within the haze of magic.
Era collapsed on the floor for a second as a flood of new memories entered her mind. There she sensed the control she was missing, and felt confident her next attempt would work. but then a strange creature flashed behind the memories, and burned itself into her mind. Before the image could curse her any longer she opened her eyes, but...
Era sat there staring at the chimeric beast that now stood before her. Ice flowed through her veins, her tiny heart threatened to rip itself out of her chest. She could see its shallow, uneven breaths escaping its long maw past a fang glistening with fresh saliva, and above a gnarled, hoary goatee. Deep red irises on top of yellow corneas seemed to pierce her to the bone. The mismatched horns upon its head struck a chord in her mind leaving a nightmarish thought in its wake. (What is this thing where's my daddy.)
The iridescent scales of green upon the thing's right reptilian leg reflected slightly in the light. A cloven hoof, part of a tan leg attached haphazardly to an extended dark brown body. A lion's paw and an eagle's talon protruded from its upper body. A pair of mismatched wings erupted from its spine one a bare, leathery bat wing, the other a feathered pegasus wing. Finally scarlet tail that ended in an alabaster tuft of feathers rounded out the thing from the apex of its horns to the tip of its tail.
The demonic marionette continued its penetrating gaze farther into her soul than she herself could fathom. Until a familiar voice escaped its mouth. "Era, honey, why are you looking at me like that?" A scaled talon reached across to touch her. A scream bellowed from deep within her, and instinct kicked in, firing a cobalt blue ball of flame that struck the beast in the chest. They both collapsed to the ground, one from exhaustion the other from injuries suffered.
Luna had been searching for Era and Discord since the sun had risen, but found neither hide nor hair of either. Her search took her high and low around the castle grounds, and the guards had confirmed that neither had left. The nocturnal dyarch was about to give up until she heard an unmistakable scream pierce the air. She raced to its source sweat streaming from her brow, and a cone of compressed air forming before her. The sound barrier strained, but before breaking the lunar princess slowed, and found what she had been looking for. Her husband, and daughter.
Both were collapsed, but only the stallion was injured. Burned, blistered flesh along his chest was already healing leaving soft pink flesh in return. His coat would grow back but that would take some time.
"Discord what happened?!"
The auburn stallion creaked one eye open, and groaned slightly. "Would you believe that we were attacked by a group of Magmar?"
"No I would not belive that."
"Alright, in that case I brought Era back here to practice some basic fire spells. She had been doing pretty good up until the end, and then she started having trouble."
"Then what happened?" The alicorn mare asked, more worry than anger in her voice.
"I gave her some of my experience with the spell then she started freaking out, screamed, and hit me in the chest with a fireball. On the plus side she finally got the hang of the spell."
A small chuckle escaped the princess of the night, as well as a tear from her eye. Relived she wrapped her hooves around Discord, and poked him once in the ribs for good measure, eliciting a yelp from the brown stallion before he passed out. Carrying both her husband and daughter in her magic she trotted them both to the castle to rest, and prepare a lecture for when they woke up.
Author's Note
This here was written by Someguy987 . We can let the small detail that Discord's magic was still restrained go, as this was a nice read.
Prompt is still open for those who are interested.
I have super editing skills, yeah...
I have to start off and say, wow! I honestly never thought that any of my fics would recieve such a positive response. And to be honest, I never actually saw myself as a good writer, I just wrote down everything I could imagine into this fic. It's just amazing to see this fic reaching 300 likes, when I anticipated to recieve 50-80, tops. It was also in the feature box 5 times. 6 times counting the epilogue! I am honestly blown away!
I also would have never been able to write this without the help of the people who pre-read for me and helped me. Those fine people are frieD195 , Magnumopai and Wolfy Hige ! I couldn't have done it without you guys! You're all awesome!
And finally, you readers! You guys were always the support I needed, I couldn't have done it without you guys too! I first planned it to have just 10-13 chapters, but that number became 32... LOL OH WELL!
Stick around for the sequel!
Edited by frieD195
Discord cracked his neck from side to side, still grinning and his horn blazing. This was going to be fun . The princesses looked nervously at eachother. Luna spread her wings as Discord had suspected. He knew the strengths and weaknesses of the Princesses. He was thinking of a strategy that would work against both of them.
Luna was a fast flier, she was agile and quick to react. Her weak points were blunt force and powerful magical blasts. He would have to go for Celestia first, as the fight against Luna would take much more of his energy. Discord shifted his focus to Celestia.
Celestia wasn’t that fast in the air or very agile but she made that up by having strong magic and high resistance towards blunt force and blasts. The way to deal with her is to be as quick on his hooves as he could. He grinned even wider as he felt his periculum reach its breaking point. It wasn’t as strong as it was in his draconequus form, but it was more than enough.
With a powerful thrust of his wings, Discord flew towards Celestia, who had squared her shoulders and taken a defensive stance with her horn pointed towards him. Luna had taken to the air, where she was strongest. Luna wasn’t very good with hoof-to-hoof combat.
When Discord was close to her, Celestia reacted by fusing her magic to form a shield around her. Discord was still grinning from ear to ear. Just before he would crash into the shield, he released a shockwave of magic against it, shattering the shield and making Celestia skid a few feet on her hooves. Discord flew up into the air and did a loop while whooping. Celestia aimed towards him and shot five beams of energy towards him. He dodged them with ease, laughing at her.
Luna dived towards Discord, horn ablaze. Discord dropped just below her and punched his right hoof into her gut, making her twist out of control towards the ground. Celestia caught her with her magic and gently placed her on the ground. She turned towards Discord again only to see him flying towards her in breakneck speed. Celestia could barely avoid being run over by him.
Discord landed, still moving fast. He digged his hooves down into the ground, braking his momentum. A cloud of dust was kicked up as he skidded away. Celestia turned to her sister, who had just gotten back up on her hooves. Luna was gritting her teeth and her eyes were brimming with tears from the pain in her gut and heart. Celestia scowled and turned towards the cloud. Discord hadn’t gotten out from it yet, and it hadn’t dissappeared with the wind.
The cloud of dust started moving against the sisters. They couldn’t even see their own hooves in front of their faces. Celestia decided to rely on her senses. She closed her eyes who were beginning to burn from the dust. She felt an alien energy moving fast in a circle around them. Discord had created a weak mini tornado to contain the cloud and to blind them. He was just playing with them. She could feel that Discord had suddenly moved away from maintaining the tornado and had shot out to the west. He dissappeared from her range of sensing energies. Celestia could suddenly feel him coming back, faster than before. He was coming for them.
Luna had also sensed Discord. She spread her wings and shot out from the tornado as her sister summoned a wind to diminish the dust. Luna was heading straight for Discord. None of them budged as they were coming closer and closer towards eachother. Just before they would crash into eachother, Discord rolled so he was flying upside-down, just beneath Luna. He took a cheap-shot and kicked her in the face with one of his backhooves as he passed her. Luna was surprised by the sudden hit and once again was twirling towards the ground. This time, Celestia was too slow to catch her fall.
Celestia witnessed her sister make contact with the ground. Discord was going to pay. She was going to make sure he would. Discord landed with a thump a few feet away from Celestia, still grinning. Celestia wanted to wipe that smile right off his face with a swift hoof.
’’So...’’ Discord started, rubbing his chest with his left hoof and nonchalantly inspecting it. ’‘Ready to give up yet, Tia?’’ Celestia was only focused on the spirit mocking her, until the soft sobbing mixed with groaning from her sister reached her ears. Celestia growled and lowered her head towards him, like she was about to skewer him with it. She grinded her left hoof against the ground, much to Discord’s amusement.
’‘You will pay...’’ Celestia growled as her horn started glowing a brilliant white light, making the temperature around them rise drastically. It sounded like something was powering up to be released.
Celestia used Solar Beam!
A brilliant white and orange beam sliced through the air heading straight towards Discord. Discord jumped to his side desperately and rolled. His tail became singed and the tip of it just dissappeared from the heat. As soon as he was on all of his hooves again, he shot open his wings and gave a thrust with everything he could manage. He was soaring towards Celestia in breakneck speed again. It felt like everything around him was slowing down. Celestia didn’t have the time to react to his speed. She just closed her eyes and braced for impact.
Discord pulled back his left hoof and swung it forward as hard as he could towards Celestia’s head. His hoof made contact with Celestia’s jaw and made a satisfactory crunching sound just when it hit, drawing blood.
Celestia fell like a rock. Luna lifted her head just to see her sister fall to her side, unconcious. Luna gasped for breath as Discord landed a bit away from her sister. Blood was spotched on his left hoof. Luna shook her head in disbelief. This couldn’t be happening. She braced herself to stand. Discord noticed her standing up. He just scanned her features, up and down. Discord got a devilish grin and lifted his left hoof that had her sister’s blood. He brought it to his face, smirked and gently licked some blood off his hoof and smacked his lips.
’‘Tell Celestia to eat less treats when she wakes up, it makes her blood taste a little too sweet.’’ Discord said nonchalantly in a conversational manner to Luna, who’s jaw was hanging open from the display. ’‘Now now, Lu. Don’t be rude . How have you been?’’ Discord walked around the fallen solar princess with a disgusted expression.
’‘Lonely.’’ Luna answered flatly.
’’Me too, my dear, me too...’’ Discord stopped a few feet away from Luna.
’’I... I’m...’’ Luna bit her lip, wincing slightly from the pain in her gut and face. ’‘I’m sorry...’’
Discord was taken aback from the sudden apology. He lifted his hoof that wasn’t littered with blood and rubbed his neck. ’’Uh... What for, exactly?’’
’‘For leaving you like that all those years ago.’’ Luna sat down and lifted her left foreleg to her aching gut. ’‘And for this...’’ She choked out the last sentence and closed her eyes. Her horn started glowing. Discord didn’t have time to react before a bright, white flash blinded him and disorientated him. He staggered around for a while, bucking and thrashing until he could feel an all too familiar weight on his back. He started thrashing some more. He quickly got tired and slowed down. He could feel something cold on the front of his neck, which clicked as it closed around his neck.
His powers drained immediately, he couldn’t use his magic, his wings felt too heavy to be able to fly with. His strength vanished as well and he collapsed to the ground, fatigue overtaking him as he passed out.
Celestia had woken up and had motioned for Luna to stall Discord long enough so she could materialize the necklace that would drain his powers and weaken him. The necklace had worked and done its part.
Discord woke up several minutes later with a start. He was lying on his side. He looked up to see Celestia and Luna towering him and looking down at him. Discord’s spirit died that exact moment. He thumped his head back to the ground. Something was around his neck.
He looked down to see a charcoal necklace made out of some material that he didn’t recognize. There was three fire rubies who were glowing intently in a strange pattern in the middle of it.
’‘Get up.’’ Celestia ordered, still looking down at him.
Discord knew that he didn’t have any other choices, so he braced one of his forelegs beneath himself and pushed. Progress was slow and all of his legs were shaking violently. Just before he was about to fall, Princess Luna stood besides him and helped him stand. He grumbled his thanks and looked down at the ground, defeated.
’’I guess you’re going to turn me back to stone again...’’ Discord sighed.
’’No.’’ Celestia gracefully shook her head. The wound on her lip was still bleeding a little.
’‘What. ’’ Discord didn’t believe them.
’’We decided to try with a different approach this time.’’ Luna motioned to the necklace around his neck.
’’As my sister said. We’re going to try and socialize you for an attempt to see if you can change or not.’’ Celestia used her magic to heal the wound on her face.
’‘Great. I’m a social experiment now.’’ Discord groaned as he sat down on his flank and rubbed his eyes with both of his hooves.
’‘Exactly.’’ Luna walked a lap around Discord to get a better look of his pony form and his cutiemark, who sparked her interest.
Discord just groaned and laid down again, covering his head with his hooves.
’‘You’re going to start by apologizing to the Elements of Harmony for what you did to them the last time you escaped.’’ Celestia giggled at the thought of Discord apologizing.
’‘Are you serious..? ’’ Discord thought that the thought of apologizing to them would be humiliating.
’‘Yes.’’ Celestia nodded firmly once. Luna just giggled as Discord’s jaw dropped.
’’...Fuck’’
A/N: Edited version! Edited by frieD195
Luna gritted her teeth and flared her wings. She glanced at the now frozen Elements of Harmony, all of them were frozen with expressions of true pain. Luna cringed and turned towards Discord, who was grinning from ear to ear. Luna took a deep breath through her nostrils and widened her stance. Discord started pacing to her left, eyeing her like a wolf watching its prey. Discord stopped suddenly and slumped his shoulders.
Luna was cautious of his every move, as he was fast and agile. Luna started walking in a circle around him, her midnight wings spread in all their glory. She suddenly charged towards him, surprising him. Discord rolled to his left and flared his wings, eyes wide from shock. A satisfied grin spread across his face. This is going to be way more interesting than it was against Celestia.
Discord gave his wings a powerful thrust and was now soaring straight towards Luna, who flew to him to collide in mid-air. Luna winced as she threw punch after punch at Discord’s face. Discord roared in anger as Luna blinded him with a flash from her horn.
Discord dove towards the ground and went into a staggering landing. He lifted his hooves and rubbed his eyes while growling. He was furious at the lunar princess blocking the sun. He looked up to her. A headache rampaged through his skull as he looked up at her. A flashback rang through his head.
’’I love you, Discord...’’ Luna looked up at me, smiling softly. I looked down at her and gave her a peck on the forehead.
’’I love you too...’’
The flashback faded into obscurity by a midnight hoof making contact with his chin. Discord slid back a few feet from the hit and groaned in pain. The culprit was standing where he had been standing mere seconds ago. Her face revealed no expressions. Her eyes were blank from emotion. Discord flared his wings and dashed into her, giving her a full-on body slam. Luna reeled back, surprised from the brutish attack. Discord raised his right hoof to punch her with all he could muster. He gritted his teeth. Luna’s expression was tearful and showed that she was above all, heartbroken and scared.
Discord stopped and looked at his raised hoof. Luna noticed the yellow in his eyes flicker back to its normal white shine. Luna’s hope skyrocketed that Discord could be able to fight off the effect.
’‘Discord!’’ The confused spirit in question turned his head towards her. ’‘You have to fight back! This isn’t you! You always said that you don’t hurt ponies or turn them to stone! Yet you’ve just done both of those things!’’ Luna gritted her teeth and lifted her head a little. A small trickle of blood from Luna’s previous punches escaped his left eyebrow. Discord closed his eyes and shook his head. The yellow in his eyes had returned.
’’I am chaos... ’’ Discord cracked his neck and flared his wings once again. Luna silently cursed and shot off into the air. Discord followed her. After Luna had risen significantly in altitude, she made a quick flip and headed back towards the ground and Discord. Just before they would crash into eachother, Luna gave him a powerful uppercut that made him flip onto his back in mid-air. She continued by placing her forelegs on his stomach and fly towards the ground at full speed.
Discord’s horn started glowing and Luna quickened her pace even further. Just before Discord would be able to release the magic blast, they made contact with the ground. The spell that Discord had been charging dissolved and exploded outward in a shockwave of arcane energy.
The petrified Element’s stone exterior started cracking from the sheer force of the blast. A force much like a small earthquake shook the town. Discord grunted and groaned in pain. He could barely breathe from the impressive strategy the princess of the night used on him. It took him completely by surprise.
Luna’s whole body was quivering from the strain of fighting Discord. Her last attack had drained almost all the energy she had in her reserves. She glanced at the Elements of Harmony to see Twilight Sparkle’s left foreleg and neck being visible. She ran up to the respective statues of the Elements and cracked the last of the stone imprisonment remaining on them.
Discord rolled onto his right side and braced his right foreleg beneath his stomach so he could brace himself to stand up. His breathing was raspy and hitched. He couldn’t see with his left eye as it was swollen shut. His entire stomach area was numb. But one thing that bothered him was that he didn’t know what happened and why Lu was helping Rarity remove stone from her midsection.
That’s when it hit him.
He had done this to them. Well, maybe not him but his periculum did it. It had used his body in a moments’ weakness. He felt a heavy presence in the back of his head, telling him to petrify Luna when her back was turned against him. Discord shook his head and lifted his hooves to his head, holding them to it while sitting on his flanks and rocking back and forth in a slow pace.
’’No. No. NO. NO. NO!’’ Discord’s voice rised in volume in unison with the strange presence trying harder and harder to wrestle away his control. Luna turned towards him. Luna felt bad when she saw him gritting his teeth and silently sobbing. Discord opened his eyes. They were back to their white and crimson colour. He was focusing on something intangible. The Elements of Harmony had been freed. They were trying to compose themselves. Fluttershy was even quieter than normal and didn’t dare to move a single muscle in her fragile body.
Discord stood up on shaky legs, momentarily wobbling from side to side while clenching his eyes shut. Luna bit her lip as Discord coughed up a little blood and spat it out. Discord turned around and limped away from the scene with his wings flared. Luna was about to fly up to him and stop him, but she was too slow. Discord had disappeared in a flash.
Back in Canterlot Castle, guards, servants and other personnel as well were mourning the fall of their beloved Princess. Her dull, gray form was still on the same spot as Discord had left her. They didn’t know what to do when not under the guidance from either of the Princesses. They feared that the worst had happened to the Princess of the Night. A sudden flash disturbed their mourning.
Ten feet away from the petrified princess stood an goldish-grey alicorn with a bone-white horn, a messy black and silver mane and alluring crimson eyes. The alicorn seemed to be in great pain. But when he laid his eyes on Celestia, his gaze hardened for a while only to soften again instantly after.
Discord took a few limping steps towards Celestia and cracked his neck. If he had any magic energy left, this would drain it within a second. He closed his eyes and rested his horn on the princess’ horn. A crimson aura mixed with a hint of yellow blazed to life from his horn. Discord grunted from the strain as his horn started glowing even more. With one last push, the stone around Celesia’s horn started crumbling and turning into dust.
Discord turned away from the princess and walked towards an open window. Celestia gasped for breath as her head was free. She saw Discord jumping through the window. A small note was all that was left from him.
’‘Have the Elements of Harmony ready. ~D’’
Celestia sighed and rested her head back to the cold castle floor. She had to search for her sister and the Elements later. Two guards helped her stand up and escorted her to her private quarters.
Discord was flying as fast as he could with the limited energy he still had. It wasn’t much but it was more then enough for him to get away from Canterlot, Ponyville and other civilizations. Discord gritted his teeth and momentarily closed his eyes to relieve himself from the violent winds lashing his face.
After a few more minutes of flying, Discord realised that he was now above the vast Everfree forest. His wingstrokes became irregular and poorly timed as he felt himself slipping away into unconsciousness. He tried to focus his eyesight but the rapidly increasing black blur in the corners of his eyes distracted him. After another minute of torture, Discord fell into blissfull unconsciousness. He didn’t even feel the moment of impact.
On the ground, a unicorn scout from The Discordant Anarchy had noticed the falling spirit. The teenage colt caught Discord with his magic just before he would make contact with the ground. The colt gasped at Discord’s tattered form and ran off to their temporary headquarters.
Five hours later, Discord groaned as he woke up in a strange tent. He looked around to see basic medial equipment, syringes and a small journal. Discord disregarded the items lying in the tent and stood up from the makeshift bed he had been placed on.
Discord walked past a mirror in the room and glanced into it. He ran back to the mirror and looked just above his right eye. By the edge of the eyebrow was a small scar. Discord clicked his tongue and walked outside. On the outside, a group of diamond dogs, griffons and ponies turned towards him and saluted. Discord groaned and facehoofed.
To top it off, the voice in the back of his head started shouting at him to do something drastic and hurt them for doing something against his will. He shook his head and disregarded those violent thoughts and focused on a dark brown stallion walking towards him. The captain had his trademark smirk plastered across his face.
’‘Captain Douche.’’ Discord nodded once. The captain winced and gritted his teeth in annoyance.
’’My lord, if my sources are correct, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and the Elements of Harmony is still free. Is this true?’’ Black Rush crooked an eyebrow.
’‘That is true.’’ Discord rolled his shoulders.
’‘Then we must take action and wipe them all out.’’ The captain got a wicked grin.
’‘Nope.’’ Discord rolled his eyes. The captain looked at him in confusion. ’’I never hurt anypony in my rule, I never killed anypony in my rule. I defended them, actually. Just so I could keep having my personal fun with them.’’ Discord’s eyes narrowed. ’‘The Anarchy is doing the exact opposite of my ways.’’ Discord huffed. ’‘That’s why I don’t want anything to do with any of you.’’
The captain’s expression darkened from anger. ’’I released you from their shackles!’’ He raised his voice into a shout.
’’I was happy!’’ Discord growled.
’‘You were happy by being the personal joke of Princess Celestia and the personal entertainment of Princess Luna?’’ The captain spat. Discord started shaking from anger.
’‘What did you just say?’’ The captain flinched from the tone of Discord’s voice.
’’I said, Luna doesn’t love you. She’s using you for her own pleasu-’’ Black Rush was interrupted by Discord flaring his wings and focusing his magic. Discord’s eyes started glowing in a sick yellow light as he started rising into the air from the magic flowing around him. A few stray lightning bolts cracked from the aura around him. Captain Douche took a step back from the display of power.
’‘This has been going on for too long. You have been killing innocents in my name for too long now. It is time I put an end to this. Goodbye Captain Rush.’’ Discord said in a strange voice that sent a shiver down the captain’s spine.
Everyone in the camp had witnessed and heard Discord talking to their leader. They understood the fate they had been given and said their final goodbyes to eachother. The aura around Discord started shooting out in a pulsating rythm, until a last explosion of power ended the lives for over forty ponies, griffins and diamond dogs.
As Discord floated back to the ground. He currently had a headache that could compete with the one he experienced when he was first turned into a pony. He looked around to see the charred remains of the camp. Everyone had just disappeared from existance somehow. A few feet away from him, the impressive armor of the former captain was lying in a heap of scrap metal.
Discord walked up to the armor and lifted the chestplate with his magic, inspecting it. It should fit him like a glove. He used his magic to carve out two holes in the side for his wings. When he was finished, he had the shiny black armour with the golden trims strapped onto himself. He flexed his muscles to feel if they wouldn’t be disturbed, it was perfect.
Discord knew that he had to go to one place so he could cleanse himself of the beast within him. The objects that once caused him great agony and imprisoned him twice were now the only things that could help him. He chuckled lightly and flared his wings, heading straight for Canterlot and the Elements of Harmony.
A/N: Edited version. Edited by frieD195.
’’So, tell me; why am I doing this again?’’ Luna had just told Discord about Mac’s request to see him. Discord wasn’t exactly being cooperative at the moment. Luna sighed and rubbed her temples.
’‘Because the stallion asked me personally and he seemed to really need your help. Celestia needs some more time to calm down from you waking her up like that.’’ Luna explained for the fourth time. Discord was really trying her patience right now by being so stubborn.
’‘Seems boring...’’ Discord rolled his eyes and stood up from Luna’s bed while stretching his wings. He really didn’t want to return to Ponyville, as that meant that he would most likely meet the Elements of Harmony. He didn’t like to admit it, but he did feel bad about turning them to stone.
’’I don’t care if you think it’s boring or not, you’re going . Case closed.’’ Luna frowned and turned away from him. Discord sighed heavily and walked slowly to Luna, who was still lying in bed. He laid down behind her and wrapped his arms around her while leaning down with his head and placing it on her cheek. Luna shuddered from his sudden touch and leaned away from him, still a little annoyed at him.
’‘I’ll go if it means that much to you...’’ Discord sighed again while rolling over onto his back, momentarily staring at the ceiling. ’‘Besides, maybe I’ll get a chance to talk with Twilight Sparkle about the whole petrification deal.’’ Discord jumped to his hooves, startling the Princess lying beside him.
’‘What’s going on?’’ Luna asked, distressed by the sudden movement of her coltfriend. Discord smiled apologetically and nuzzled her forehead before he turned around and walked towards the door. ’‘Where are you going?’’
’‘Well, I’m going to go to my room and grab my armor, and then I will leave for Ponyville.’’ He rolled his shoulders and blew a stray strand of hair from his face. Luna stared at him in silence.
’‘Discord.’’
’‘Hmm?’’
’‘Why would you need armor in a small town like Ponyville?’’ Luna cocked her head slightly to the left.
’‘Have you visited there for an extended time?’’ Discord asked nonchalantly. Luna rolled her eyes.
’‘Well... No...’’ She admitted.
’‘Then I can tell you that Ponyville is no normal little town. When I was a Draconequus, something lured me to go there and set up the Chaos Capital. Something sinister . It drew me there.’’ Discord deadpanned, completely serious. Luna was taken aback by the sudden change in his tone. ’‘And when I was there the last time, Three fillies and a scooter crashed into me, I was shot on my side by a cannon and now there’s six mares who wouldn’t mind seeing my head on a platter living in that very town.’’ Discord polished the chaos restraining necklace with his right hoof ’‘I’m just taking precautions, that’s all.’’
’‘Oh.’’ Was all Luna could say to answer him. ’‘I’ll help you put on the armor, then.’’ Luna trotted past him into the corridor and towards the door leading into his room. Discord snickered and followed her.
Inside his room, Discord opened a closet and dragged out a ponykin who was fitted with the black armor. Luna lifted the chestpiece off the ponykin with her magic as Discord put on the hoofguards. Luna inspected the arrowed circle on the middle of his chest. She had searched for a similair mark in a couple of books, but she had never found anything.
’‘Discord?’’ The spirit lifted his head and looked at her, showing her that she had his attention. ’‘What does this mark mean?’’ She motioned towards the imprint on the armor. Discord glanced back at his flank, where the same mark as the one on the chestpiece was. He exhaled slowly.
’‘It’s a symbol I used when I still ruled Equestria. It was on the flag, but after my fall, Celestia removed all history of it and burned the flags.’’ Discord sighed. ’’I called it ‘The Arrows of Chaos. The eight arrows represent all possibilities but only one of them represents the Law.’’ Discord finished task of putting on all of the hoofguards like nothing had happened, but Luna stared at the Arrows for a moment, until she shook her head and opened the clasps of the armor.
’’So... That means your cutiemark-’’ Luna was interrupted by Discord-
’’My cutiemark means that my special talent is chaos, and always will be. Like it wasn’t obvious already...’’ Discord forced a smile and chuckled dryly while closing the clasps on the chestpiece in a slow fashion.
’‘What’s wrong?’’ Luna asked carefully. Discord closed his eyes and took a deep breath through his nostrils.
’’I am.’’ Discord sighed. ’’I was born to cause chaos and destruction... But now..?’’ Discord raised his head and looked straight into Luna’s eyes. Luna flinched as the white in his eyes flashed yellow once, making his pupils dissappear momentarily. ’‘I’m just another pawn in the chessgame called Order.’’
’‘Stop it, Discord!’’ Luna scolded. ’‘You’re much more than that! You’re someone special, someone that I care for deeply! So stop talking like that, okay..?’’ Luna sniffled. Discord shook his head and walked up to Luna and nuzzled her.
’‘I’m sorry... I just... I just lost control...’’ Discord bit his lip. ’‘I have to go now, but I’ll come back as soon as I can, okay?’’ He reached out with his right hoof and turned Luna’s head to look straight into his eyes.
’‘Okay.’’ Luna smiled weakly. Discord gave her a small peck on the lips, making her giggle.
As Discord turned around and walked towards the door, he felt an familiar presence in the back of his head. He stopped in his tracks and blocked out the presence. He could deal with it later. Right now he had to go to Ponyville and... Ugh... Help a pony. Besides, he needed some time alone to think of what he would do at the Grand Galloping Gala. Without Luna knowing, of course.
Big Macintosh was standing on a field just outside of town. He was sitting in the shade of a great tree, waiting for the Spirit he had requested to meet. Princess Luna had told him to wait there until Discord had reached Ponyville. He had realized that this would be the first time he would meet Discord in his pony form. He was a little nervous, to say the least.
Mac had been thinking of how Discord would be able to help. Maybe he could help by increasing his self-confidence and make him less shy? Maybe by giving him a gentle push in the right direction? His hopes weren’t that high though, as he knew that Discord was the Embodiment of Chaos. And the last time he checked, chaos wasn’t a very pleasant thing.
A sudden shadow passing quickly overhead made Big Macintosh jump slightly. He scrambled to stand up, making him stumble forwards and fall. He hit his head hard on the ground, wincing as he felt an headache rapidly approaching. A roaring laughter made Big Macintosh snap his eyes open to search for the source of the guffaw. He saw a goldish grey alicorn rolling around on the ground eight feet away from him.
His horn was something that Mac had never seen before. Instead of it being the same color as the coat of the pony, this horn was bone-white and it didn’t have the same shape as a normal unicorn horn. It was more rounded and sharper.
The pony, who Macintosh had now understood to be Discord, had a dark-grey mane which was unruly and messy. Combs were overrated anyway. Big Mac gulped as he saw the armor the Spirit was wearing. The sun was reflecting perfectly on the dark hue of the armor, and the golden trim made it even more impressive to look at.
Discord stopped rolling around on the grass and stood up, cleared his throat and wiped his eyes with his right hoof. He chuckled as Big Mac stretched his neck.
’‘You Discord?’’ Macintosh asked, still a little embarassed by his embarassing flop.
’‘Depends on who’s asking.’’ Discord rubbed his right hoof to his chest and then looked at it nonchalantly.
Big Macintosh became a little aggravated by the attitude of the pony he had just met. ’‘Mah name’s Big Macintosh an’ Ah’m the one who asked Princess Luna for help.’’
Discord grinned maniacally and trotted closer towards the tank of a pony. ’‘Well then, my good sir, I am Discord, Embodiment of Chaos, Spirit of Disharmony and the Master of The Maniacs! Nice to meet you!’’ Discord grabbed Big Macintosh’s right hoof and shook it violently. Macintosh started having second thoughts about his ‘brilliant’ idea.
’‘Ah’m just Big Macintosh...’’ Mac drawled, making Discord stare at him in a bored fashion.
’’SO!’’ Discord exclaimed, making Big Macintosh jump. At least he didn’t fall this time. ’‘Why did you need my help, and do you know that my ideas are usually not very safe?’’
Macintosh cringed. ’’Ah need your help to...’’ He whispered something incoherent.
’‘Pardon?’’ Discord lifted his left hoof to his ears, to indicate that he didn’t hear what he said.’’
’’Ah said, I need your help ta... ask... Miss Twilight on a... date...’’ Mac’s blush was visible through his coat.
Discord just stared at him with a frown. ’‘You needed my help just for... that? ’’
’‘Eeyup?’’ Macintosh said, unsure of what the Spirit meant.
’’My friend...’’ Discord said in a dark tone. Mac flinched, expecting a scolding. ’’I can help with more than just a date!’’ Discord exclaimed victoriously. Mac started listening eagerly. ’’In no less than two days, it’s the annual Grand Galloping Gala in Canterlot. I will whip you into dating-shape until you have asked Twilight Sparkle.’’ Discord turned around and started walking down the path into town. Macintosh started trotting beside him.
’‘Where are we goin’?’’ Mac asked.
’’To the library, of course!’’ The Spirit said happily as he trotted a little faster than before. His armor was clanking as it bounced on his back. He heard something skid behind him. He stopped and looked back to see Big Macintosh standing still with a horrified expression on his face.
’’A-a-a-already?’’ Big Mac stuttered out, making Discord roll his eyes.
’‘Yes, ’already’ . Now come on.’’
’‘Ah’m not sure ‘bout this, Discord...’’ Big Mac splayed his ears back and started walking backwards. Discord groaned and turned around, staring straight into the green eyes of the red giant.
’‘Either you come with me now, or I’ll do it for you. Make your choice.’’ Discord scowled. Big Macintosh panicked slightly by the thought of Discord asking Twilight for him.
’’...Okay.’’ Macintosh started trotting down the path again while hanging his head in defeat. Discord grinned as Mac trotted past him.
’’So...’’ Discord started conversationally. ’‘What is it that you see in Twilight Sparkle, of all ponies?’’ Big Macintosh lifted his head and looked at the sky while contemplating about what he could say about her.
’‘Well... She’s really smart and good with organizing. and she looks good.’’ Mac’s spirit rose almost immediately. ’’An’ you should see her when she’s stressed, or when she’s tryin’ ta figure somethin’ out. Ah think it’s called ’adorkable’ or sumthin’...’’ Macintosh furrowed his brow in concentration. ’‘Yeah, that was it...’’
Discord clicked his tongue and shook his head. ’‘I’ve almost always seen her stressed, panicked and even horrified. She sometimes looks like she’s about to crack from the strain.’’ Mac growled.
’‘You don’t get what Ah mean...’’ Macintosh turned his head away from the Spirit. To the workpony’s horror, they were already trotting down the street where the Library was.
’‘Well, I’m sure its nice when you see it from your perspective...’’ Discord shrugged.
’‘Darn tootin’’’. Mac made a toothy grin which made Discord shudder. Macintosh realised that Discord hadn’t given him any tips or any real help so far, and they were already by the door to the Ponyville library. ’‘Hey Discord...’’ The Spirit in question turned towards the workpony. ’‘How am I supposed ta do this?’’ Discord thought about it for a while, until he grinned.
’‘Like this!’’ Discord pounded the door repeatedly and shot up onto a branch, hiding himself from everypony’s view.
Big Macintosh started panicking slightly as he heard an irritated groan and the clopping of hooves on the other side of the door coming closer. ’‘Discord, Ah’m gonna kill you.’’ He thought as the door opened.
Bonus Chapter 1 - Discolt Pt. 2
''...Four broken ribs, left hindleg broken, multiple cuts from twigs on your back and wings. You also managed to break your jaw.'' A doctor looked from the chart and to the spirit covered in cast and bandages, who was glaring daggers at the princesses standing in the corner of the room. ''You will be able to communicate with the nurses with various beeps with this...'' The doctor motioned to a small controller by his right hoof. ''Try it, this nurse will translate for you.'' A nurse stepped forward and smiled to him. Discord frowned, and a barrage of beeps echoed through the room.
Discord nodded to the nurse, who was standing there slack-jawed. ''I didn't know one could say that with that method...'' She contemplated, but shook her head. ''Anyway, he said that he hates all of you, and you will burn. I... I don't want to say the rest of what he wanted me to translate... It's too rude.''
Discord pouted and leaned back into the bed. A long, outdrawn beep came from him which made the nurse blush furiously and start stuttering. The doctor stepped forward. ''Yes, well then... Let us leave him to rest, shall we? The three princesses nodded and filed out of the room, followed by the doctor.
''Buck my life...'' Discord thought as he closed his eyes to rest.
A/N: Idea for this extra chapter came from Twattycake. Hey guys, I just wanted to let you guys know that these bonus chapters will not play along on the same timeframe with eachother, unless they're parts to a former one, like this one. Got an idea for a bonus chapter? Comment your idea and I'll take a look on it!
