A Tail of Difference.

Meeting the mares that protect Equestria was...interesting. There was a great deal of tension in the dining room when Faust, Celestia, and Luna entered with Leo walking behind them. He was firmly grasping Celestia's tail when Faust went ahead to introduce him to The Main Six. He would have stayed at his mother's side, but his nervousness of meeting strangers made it impossible. So for comfort of the situation, he latched onto the second biggest pony and refused to let her go.

Leo was still in a little trouble for stealing Blueblood's cake; at least he was in Blueblood's perspective. Celestia, Luna, and Faust, however, were quite to have the little kitsune steal and vomit the cake all over the spoiled unicorn. If it wasn't for Blueblood being so damn obnoxious, and Leo being so adorable, Celestia would be facing some sort of punishment.

Luckily, Blueblood is that bad and that obnoxious.

Anyway. Leo remained attached to the Molesting Goddess as her student entered with her friends. Next to her, but only for the sake of protecting Leo, was the blue alicorn with her mane a little frazzled from cleaning Leo of the very little cake vomit that landed on his freshly cleaned shit.

Magic or not, it was still disgusting to clean such bile off of the boy.

Leo felt his waist grasped by a yellow, sparkling aura as The Main Six bowed to their queen. None of them, not even Twilight, dared to lift her their gaze off the floor until it was allowed by Faust. They had great respect for the alicorn and felt it wrong to not show said respect when she is the source of everything that's made them heroes.

"Queen Faust," Twilight felt the soft nuzzling of her queen. A motherly touch that made her chuckle as Faust gave into remembrance of all mortals being her children; at least in some small perspective. "It's good to see that you've returned again."

"Yes, it is very good." Faust replied.

The queen eyed each of the element wielders and beamed a warm smile as the maids returned with refreshment. A slightly early dinner was being set as was Leo's chair been enchanted to fit his small size. Twilight was about to speak, but she caught a small glimpse of the boy's tails and became mesmerized by it.

She was going to question it, but was interrupted by her energetic friend, who happened to not know the boundaries of personal space.

"Is that him!?" a Pink Earth Pony asked loudly. Pinkie Pie was her name, and she bolted around Celestia to get her hooves on the kitsune as he flicked his tails in a nervous fashion.

Luckily for Leo, the aura that was wrapped around his waist lifted him above the pink menace and onto Celestia's back. He was saved from a tackling hug that would have squeezed the cuteness out of him, while Pinkie Pie rolled into a column and crashed. Nothing was hurt or broken, but to be denied the little fox was a big no-no on the princess' part.

"It's alright, sweetie." Celestia craned her neck just enough to nuzzle the boy's leg. He was hiding deeply in the alabaster alicorn's mane, his eyes being the only sign of his presence. "You have nothing to fear. Pinkie Pie is just very excited to meet you, because she loves meeting new ponies."

"But I'm not a pony." Leo whispered into her ear. His head popped out of Celestia's mane, revealing his almighty adorable face to the six mares that are eager to meet him.

A collective 'Awwww' passed through the dining room. Twilight and her friends eyeballed the kitsune with an unbearable urge to snuggle the dickens out of him.

Realizing that he was in open, Leo yelped at the six ponies and dove back into his hiding spot while Faust approached him. Like any normal fox, he was nervous and slightly afraid of the newcomers. So he did what he was taught to do when strangers come around. He hid away in the shadows behind Celestia's mane and waited for them to go away.

Unfortunately...

"Leo, it is okay." Faust cooed beneath a few strands of her daughter's mane. She slowly the alicorn's hair until a defensive Leo was found. "Oh honey, they're not going to hurt you. These girls are nothing like Blueblood."

Leo, with his adorable glare, poked his head again and leaned into Faust's ear. He cautiously stared at the pink one, waiting for her to strike.

"The fluffy one scares me a little." he growled, or at least tried, but found it difficult to growl when his voice is a comparison of a squeaky toy.

"I wanna see the little fox, I wanna see the little fox!" Pinkie Pie repeated as her friends did their best to hold her back.

Faust looked back at her son and giggled as her magic lifted him from Celestia. She licked the boy's cheeks before setting him down on the floor for The Main Six to see. She nudged Leo closer to the mares and spoke as the plates were being set on the table.

"You have nothing to be scared of." she whispered, pushing the kitsune closer by the inch. "These ponies are just as friendly as the others you have met."

Friendly these ponies are. For within a minute of seeing Leo in all his glory, a yellow Pegasus joined her pink friend in bombarding the child before he could so much as blink. As if it was just yesterday that she met Spike, Fluttershy crouched to the nervous boy and babied him.

"Oh my gosh. Is this what a kitsune looks like, your majesty!?" she blurted in the midst of nuzzling the top of his head. Fluttershy was long gone in the cuteness, just like the princesses were, and possibly still are. "He is so cute!"

Leo perked a smile at the Pegasus for the compliment. He relaxed a little more while rubbing his cheek against the mare's leg. Like Celestia and Luna, she had a very soft and extremely smooth coat of fur. Her nuzzling was not bad either, but she could lay off a little so it doesn't have a sand paper roughness to it.

Next was white furred unicorn with a stylish, purple mane that appears to have taken hours to perm. She was not so upkeep around the princesses anymore; there was a new sparkle in her eye, and its name was Leo. Had she been the first to have nuzzled him, the possibility of stopping and leaving Canterlot without him is slim to none.

Rarity was her name, and she was all over that boy like her friend was. Unfortunately, so was the rest of the gang.

"He is such a little cutie," Rarity received a hug on her leg for that one, causing her to smile widely as the princesses fought the urge to take him back. "Oh look darlings, he likes to hug too. Now aren't you just the most adorable thing we have ever seen?"

"I've never seen such in my entire life," Twilight said out of the blue. Quickly, she picked up the boy and stood on her hind legs, rubbing cheeks with the giggling kitsune. "But it doesn't matter right now, because he is so adorable!"

"Yeah, he is pretty cute." a blue Pegasus agreed, receiving a playful glare from Rarity.

"Oh really, Rainbow Dash?" Rarity mused, "Because it seems that you and Applejack are having a difficult time fighting the urge to love on this magnificent creature."

"I want to hold him, I want to hold the cutie-pa-tootie!" Pinkie Pie zipped around her friends, but found no open spot to grab the boy and express how cute she believes he is. "Girls, let me-Now you know that-I WANT TO HOLD THE ADORABLE THINGY!"

Lost in her own addiction of cuteness, Pinkie Pie stuck did a high dive into the group, tongue sticking out in the process. She broke the group apart, in which disturbed her friends more than she could know. Her crash knocked Leo away, pushing him so hard that he rolled into Fluttershy's chest.

This made the Pegasus yelp before the same aura that had Leo wrapped around her for a brief moment. It was no longer than a blink of an eye that Fluttershy was gently lifted and returned to her friends, while Leo was taken back into the warmth that is near-flaring for Pinkie Pie's poorly impulse action.

The remaining minute of Faust's calm and collective demeanor slowly cracked under the pressure of allowing others to touch the child. Although her daughters are allowed to touch the boy, having Twilight and her friends act so giddy right now made it near impossible for the godly nature of a protective mother to not come out.

She was a lightning storm in her universe, a living embodiment of ultimate power, readying to strike down anyone who dares to touch her little fox. It was her nature as an alicorn to be overly protective of her newest child, but she could not show it as she wants to.

Gritting behind her closed lips, Faust contemplated her thoughts as the girls glared at their sheepishly smiling party pony.

She just wants to hold Leo, not hurt him. Stay in control, don't overreact, keep yourself-

"POOF!"

Faust's ears perked at the familiar sound of her old friend, who just so happened to appear in front of her, with little consideration of what is happening.

Choking back the urge to torment these ponies, he respectfully bowed to his superior and said with a toothy grin, "My Dear Fausty, such an honor to see you in Equestria once more."

"Discord." Faust said flatly.

"The one and only." he chuckled, "Unless you know of another Draconequus existing in Equestria?"

Discord, The Sprit of Chaos, her greatest friend and rival. In all her years as the maker of Equestria, Faust had to be appreciative of the Draconequus acting so immature when around her, even if he is a troublemaker. He was the first thing that came to mind when she requested for God to give her a balance in the universe. Although it wasn't as planned, Discord became that imbalance that gives her reason feel and express things.

Though her daughters and subjects are not so thrilled for his entrance, she could a warm smile and talk to him as though they just met yesterday.

"Making troubling again, Discord?" she asked kindly.

Discord waved his bear claw in a pish-posh manner, "Oh you know, just spreading a teensy bit of chaos to keep things not so perfect."

Chaos...Imbalance... Suddenly, the alicorn had a thought running through her mind. Said thought was dark and cruel, but also very funny in some standard.

When was the last time Discord had a taste of his own medicine? she could not remember when the smiling spirit had a little chaos put into his own life, thus a devilish grin grew across her face. Everyone was confused and nervous to see the alicorn act so strangely just now.

"Oh Discord~" she sang beautifully; The Draconequus eyed her, confusedly. "I have someone you need to meet, someone who can spice up your life."

"Oh really?" Discord mused, "Tell me who it is you-"

"Look what I got!" she lifted Leo to eye level with her magic, placing him midair, just inches from the Draconequus. "Meet my new son, Leo!"

"Hi!" Leo chirped.

Discord ceased all movement, eyes bugging-out in a cartoon fashion. His scales went pale, the tooth in his mouth fell, and reason for seeing the alicorn shot out the door. He had not seen such a creature in a long time, probably close to ten-thousand years. But now he had one levitating in front of him, smiling warmly and giggling at him.

Oh the torture, the cruelty of this world! Why must Discord, The Spirit of Chaos, see such a thing when he was about to bring a little chaos in Faust's day!?

Was this some cruel joke, or a ploy to-

"You're funny looking." Leo patted his nose, ignoring the twitch in Discord's eye.

"Uh...Discord?" said Luna, with her brow cocked.

"My mortal enemy." Discord groaned. His color started to return. "A Keeper of Balance...A Nine Tailed Fox."

"And since you're here, you can help me raise Leo!" Faust quipped, receiving a deep glare as the Draconequus response.

"Come again?" he asked in a goofy tone.

Faust chuckled evilly. "Congratulations, Discord, now you no longer have to spread chaos. Instead you get to experience what it means to be an uncle."

"Hi Uncle Discord!" Leo said warmly before hugging Discord's neck.

Torn of his sanity, stripped of all his fun, the Draconequus took in the full impact of what Faust just did to him. He was now a role model to a child that's been his mortal enemy since the day he first met them. His life was officially over; there was nothing left to do except feel the weight of responsibility come crashing down on his head.

Sadly, he thrust his arms into the air and screamed to the universe, "NOOOOOOOO!"

To Be Continued...