Author's Note

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Chapter 6

Thunder clouds and lightning began to rise up behind him, illuminating only him as he pulled away. His form was giant, towering over the now cowering unicorn. Rage practically came off him in waves, so potent it had nearly taken a physical form. Twilight cowered, covering her face with her hooves. She instinctively tried to pull up a shield to protect herself, pain exploding across her skull as harmonic magic surged outward. The shield was patchy at best, but it was all she could do, and it wouldn't hold long. Tears began to gather in the corners of her eyes.

Discord reached out, grabbing Twilight roughly with his lion’s hand. She tried desperately to bite at him, but it didn't seem to do anything. Gone was the silly, often fun loving Spirit of Chaos she was familiar with. He had left a creature of anger and seriousness in his wake. Everything had go so wrong so quickly. The night before that had sat in a theater together, watching Discord’s version of Hooflet, enjoying each others company. Now things were an absolute mess.

As the giant brought his hand on level with his eyes, he seemed to pause, eyeing the little pony carefully. Then his expression began to shift. Discord took a deep breath. The thunder stopped cracking and the lighting stopped striking. It seemed like a matter of seconds before the ground came up to meet Twilight, but it was gentle, and she was placed down without hurting harming them. Her legs buckled under the second the hit the floor, she realized uncomfortably that at some point in the last minute or two she had urinated on herself. Sadly, she sat in a heap on the floor, crying tears of fear, homesickness, and bitter disappointment.

As she began to calm down, Twilight looked up, perplexed. She had never seen Discord look so emotionally drained, and for a brief second she almost pitied him. They had seemed to be growing some sort of friendship but instead… “Why?” Twilight mewled.

Discord opened his mouth to speak before confusion passed across his face. “Which part?”

“All of it.” She said with as much clarity and confidence as she could muster. “Why didn't it work, why are you keeping me like this, and why did you stop?”

Discord ran his bird hand through his name before sitting down, looking utterly exhausted. “Let's start with the simplest first. Why it didn't work. I had a feeling, whether I hid the books from you or not, you would work out teleportation eventually. I was able to do it, after all, so there was very little doubt to me that you would as well once you had a first grasp over Chaos magic. So I put in a safety net. Anything that teleports within these walls would appear in front of me first. It did work. You were successful, but it was interrupted.”

“Your next question. Why I'm keeping you here. I suppose because if you left my free days would be numbered. Eventually, regardless of what you want to happen, Celestia would track me down and then back into stone I'd go. She isn't terribly creative when it comes to punishments. Although this go around I'd have to be on tighter lock down. Instead of the garden I might get a cell in the dungeons.” Discord paused as an involuntary shiver passed across him. “I haven't come up with a way to avoid that yet, so you're still here.”

“As to why I stopped,” The draconequs sighed heavily. He looked nothing short of ashamed, but seemed to be working himself up to say something incredibly difficult. “imsorryiwaswrong.” His voice was a low mumble at best.

Twilight stared at him, unable to really interpret the conglomeration of noise that had come out of his mouth. She wouldn't dignify it by calling it words. “What?”

Discord sighed petulantly. “I am sorry. I was wrong.” He said, crossing his arms as he did so. For a millennia old creature, he certainly had a knack for behaving like an absolute foal at times.

Twilight was shocked. Did it make up for him scaring the literal piss out of her? No. This was significantly more progress with him than she had expected to make. “Thank you, Discord.” She spoke with measured politeness. “That was… kind of you.”

Discord sighed again. He detested apologies, particularly when he was the one who had to make them. Apologies were just so unbecoming of a Chaotic god. Next they'd be expecting pleases and thank yous, and all sorts of ridiculous politeness that he had no time for. He did, however, have to acknowledge that perhaps just this one time, he was in the wrong. Twilight had tried to run, but she was captured. She wasn't free. A lack of freedom could do funny things to somepony.

“It wasn't a friendly thing to do.” Discord stately, awkwardly but thoughtfully. “Circumstances aside, at this point I'd consider us friends.”

Twilight went to cast a spell to clean herself, but gasped out in pain instead. Trying to use such a large burst of harmonic magic seemed to have had a similar effect as when she had first arrived. Even now, attempting to use Chaos magic was a no go. She sighed, resolving herself to a bath, but quickly found her legs still refused to cooperate. Against her will, tears began to well in Twilight’s eyes again. Such a frustrating day. She stopped, however, when Discord reached out to stroke her mane.

It was a nice feeling, despite everything else that had just happened. She hadn't had physical contact hardly at all the last couple weeks. Discord was typically quite hands off. So even though they were his weird fingers instead of a nice, smooth hoof, Twilight leaned into it. Discord’s other arm came around in a gentle embrace, and Twilight felt herself reach up to hug him back. For a few minutes, they sat together, savoring the warmth and contact. A gentle kiss upon Twilight’s forehead made her snuggle harder against him.

Discord broke them apart as he stood up, eyeing his companion carefully. “I think, my dear, that you have overextended yourself.” Her murmured softly, as he knelt down to pick her up. Carrying the comparably small, furry, purple bundle in his arms, he began to walk straight into the wall. Before running into it, the wall gave way to reveal a door, which too pulled itself up something like a map to get out of the way. Twilight didn't fight in any way, instead choosing to lean into his strong chest. She swore her eyes only shut for a second, but realized she must of drifted off.

When she came to, Discord was lowering her to the ground onto a remarkably soft rug. Wholly overcome with magical exhaustion, the unicorn snuggled into the fluffy thing, sleepily blinking her eyes. Not even the sounds of water and Discord cursing at Celestia only knew what could rouse her.

Sometime later, she was gently shaken awake. “Twily, wake up. You need to clean yourself off.” A now familiar voice called out tenderly. Twilight stretched luxuriously, rolling onto her forelegs, pushing her rear all the way up into the air. Her closed eyes didn't see the Draconequs watching her backside as it wriggled toward the top of her stretch. She yawned hugely, before opening her eyes to see another bathroom she didn't recognize with what smelled and looked like a lovely warm bubble bath awaiting her. Twilight smiled. She was looking forward to this.

Gingerly, the unicorn clambered up the side of the tub. It was the size of a small pool, really. Seashells pouring water down across each other formed a set of three small waterfalls that emptied into the center.The tensions in her muscles began to melt away as she sank into the water, the scent of cucumber melon floated into her nostrils. Despite the rest of her day, the mare felt more relaxed than she had the rest of her time I'm the cave. She looked around, expecting to see Discord somewhere, but was surprised to find him nowhere. The bath was too enjoyable to care.

Twilight tested her horn again. It seemed to be improving, she could manage some basic prestidigitation. A bottle of nice mane shampoo proved easy enough to levitate. She poured a small amount into her hair, and began to massage it into her mane with magic and a little hoof work. She lathered up the suds, spreading it all over, working through clumps and knots and all sorts of nastiness that hastily done chaos magic just couldn't fix. Twilight realized she hadn't had a real bath in ages, but it felt so good now. As she began to reach for the conditioner, she noticed what she assumed was meant to be some sort of a back scrubber. The head looked like it had a magnetic bit that would hold one of the attachments next to it. It also was… well… Phallic.

It had been a while, to say the least, since Twilight had tended to herself. She realized this bath was some of the first time she'd spent either not studying, sleeping, or being entertained by Discord in weeks. She eyed the scrubber again, and felt a slight pulling sensation coming from inside herself. It had been way too long, and the feeling was growing more urgent. Nervously, Twilight looked around again. Once she felt confident she really was on her own, she picked up the scrubber again with a light touch of chaotic magic, and brought it down under the water.

She'd intended to slowly put the makeshift dildo in, easy it a little at time, but her body was having none of it. Lightly at first, she began pushing it against herself, and she swore her hips took on a mind of their own, bucking against it, plunging it deeper into herself. She wished the damn thing would vibrate. Then, suddenly, it did. Chaos magic was so emotionally driven, something she could typically remember, but didn't look further into now as a warming sensation began to encircle her whole body.

Between this and the bath, she was too warm. The unicorn got out of the tub, and rolled onto her back atop the rug from earlier. Squeaks of delight and pleasure came out with every thrust. Her magic basically just held the vibrating toy in place as Twilight's body went to town, pushing against it wildly. She rolled back over, getting to her hooves, and began fucking herself from behind. Her eyes screwed shut and tongue lolled out of her mouth as she approached an extremely intense orgasm.

If she hadn't caught such an unexpected sound, right at the moment she tipped over the edge and past the point of no return, she'd likely have kept going for a round two. Instead, while riding a wave of euphoria, she opened her eyes and turned around.

The door, which she had sworn she couldn't even see when she had been in the bath was wide open. Discord stood holding a towel, his face a blushing comically, complete with lines of embarrassment wafting off. The wave crashed, Twilight panted from exertion for a moment before really grasping the show she had given. Meekly, Discord snapped, the towel appeared directly above Twilight’s head, and by the time she had gotten the fluttering fabric off of her, Discord was long gone.

Embarrassed but unsure what else to do, Twilight called out. “Discord! Wait! You took the door!”

There was no response.

With a sigh, Twilight crawled back into the bath to finish conditioning her fur. She supposed Discord would turn up eventually.