My Curse's Benefits

-suggested you read This at least past chapter 2 before continuing. And enjoy!

“Oh Celestia, my head…” I said as I let out another groan. Where am I… let’s see… its dark…wait… my eyes are closed, dammit! I chastised myself as I tried to open my eyes as slow as possible as if to try and impede the sun’s assault on my eyes. Once the light started to bleed through the crack in my eye lids, it gave me an instant migraine.

"Ah! Discord damn it!" I screamed out of pure frustration.

"And what exactly am I damning?" inquired a familiar voice.

"So it wasn't a dream..." I stated as I had a look at my surroundings. I was still in the bog, Snowball was out cold off to my left and a familiar draconequus hovering a few meters in front of me.

"Nope! Now before we start causing any chaos I will be taking questions!" he said as if he were teaching a class, a pair of glasses and a book even appeared on his person.

"Oh! Oh! Pick me!" I said, raising my hoof, mimicking a young colt in school.

"Yes, you! The tan stallion with the rust-colored mane!"

"Do Rainbow and her friends have any recollection of me? And since my natural pegasus magic isn't split anymore, does that mean I can walk on clouds?"

"To answer your questions in order, no and then a yes," he said, pulling down a low-hanging cloud. "Want to try it?"

"Hell yeah I do!" I exclaimed, flying up on to the cloud. I landed as gently as possible, as if the cloud was going to disappear out from under me, but, to my relief, it didn't.

The cloud was extremely soft, I imagined the softest pillow I'd ever slept on, and this was a hundred times better than that.

"That felt fantastic!" I exclaimed as I punched the cloud with a satisfying POOF!

"Now are we ready to start causing some chaos?" Discord asked with a malicious grin.

"That I am, what shall be done first?"

"First, we need to dig up some dirt on the elements of harmony; what their habits are, who they are currently in a relationship with, et cetera, et cetera. You should start with Fluttershy, since she is the closest to this location."

"It shall be done, my master," I said deeply bowing my head.

"Oh and for future reference, you aren't half-changling, you're an animagus."

I had to take a quick look back at Discord, but I was met not with a joking face, rather a face that told me he was telling the truth.

The flight to Fluttershy's house gave me a bit of time to think. Am I really doing this? Spying for an immortal spirit hell-bent on nothing but chaos? What will hap.... OOPH! My train of thought was interrupted by my head smashing into the cottage that was Fluttershy's home. I recovered from my face plant, and flew down to the back door. Upon entering, I could hear voices coming from the living room. In haste, I transformed into a platypus so as not to be discovered. I noticed a group of animals all staring at me awkwardly. Well, best fit in as much as I can, I though as I took up a spot with some badgers near the doorway to the rest of the house. Just as I got comfortable, I hear a door open followed by a large Thump! I peeked around the corner to see a stallion and an alabaster mare placing Fluttershy on her sofa. So she still can't help fainting, I thought, chuckling to myself. When I finished enjoying myself, I noticed the stallion coming towards me, and I promptly took my place next to the badgers that now seem to start showing signs of friendship with me. They were giving me portions of their food and, in general, not trying to scare me off. It was a heart-warming gesture no less, and I did accept these badgers as my friends. I made it a note to visit them every now and again.

The stallion came in to the room and had a look around. He was around my size, not very bulky, blue coat, and a black mane, but what was interesting was how his wings just sat there, not even moving in the slightest. Odd… I'll have to look into that... The stallion had a short look around and, moving over to a deer on my right, stroked its head gently. A small grin appeared on his face, as if he felt he had passed some sort of test. Looking content, he left the room, still keeping up his grin.

All of the animals let out a collective sigh as he left the room, apparently the stallion was making every animal tense. With the tension gone, the badgers resumed showing their affection toward me. I, however, had to find out more about this stallion. So, I followed him up a flight of stairs to outside a bedroom. In the bedroom were the voices of the stallion and Fluttershy.

I listened intently on the conversation, “...And what’s my name?” Fluttershy mumbled something that you barely heard.

"And how do we greet family members in our family?” Another mumbled response from Fluttershy.

“I’m sorry, what was that?” This time Fluttershy was a bit more audible.

“If you don’t take the initiative, I’ll do what Grandpa did before he passed.” With that, Fluttershy hugged the stallion, I felt my stomach heaving because of the sappiness of the situation. I left the room fearing the coming onslaught of vomit, and went back outside.

Once outside I shifted back into pony form, making sure to stretch my wing muscles thoroughly before I took off into the skies heading toward Ponyville. Upon reaching Ponyville, my eyes perceived a peculiar sight. A blue mare with a white curly mane was being chased down the street by two tan stallions in white coats, one of which was levitating a particularly large needle. I watched intently as the mare made a sudden left turn into an alleyway. She skidded to a halt in front of a wall signaling she was at a dead end. Her expression turned to that of pure fear as she saw the two stallions at the other end of the alleyway. As they closed the distance to her, I decided that I needed to know more about the situation. So, closing my wings, I darted toward the ground between the two parties. I landed in cloud of dust, and once the loud dissipated I nonchalantly asked,

"What can I do you two stallions for today?"

"Could you please move so we can bring Loose back home?" One of them asked.

"Please don't make me go back..." She sobbed.

"Well, you heard her, she doesn't want to go home," I answered.

"Too bad, she must come back with us, whether she wants to or not."

"And why is that?" I was intrigued to say the least.

"She is recovering from a psychotic breakdown she had earlier this month." The one with the needle said.

"You know that I have fully recovered from that already!" She screamed.

"Yes, but we need to study your condition for future treatments."

"So she's your guinea pig?"

"Yes! Their sessions are making my mind worse!" She was at my side now.

"No, our sessions are helping you!"

"Like Tartarus they are!"

"No matter, we came prepared for this." He said moving the needle forward.

I sighed, "Just... Stop. I've decided what's going to go down... You," I said pointing to the mare at my side, "hop onto my back."

She stood there for a second, confused, but she did as she was told, positioning her body so that she wasn't crushing my wings.

Lastly I pointed at the stallions, spread my wings, and said,"... And you can buck off."

With that, I propelled myself upwards to the blue sky with the mare on my back. Before I even got to the edge of Ponyville I felt something penetrate my flank just below my cutie mark. I risked a glance back behind the mare to see what stuck me. To my horror, it was the needle that the one stallion had and the liquid inside was slowly draining into me. I swiftly shook the needle out of my flank, but the damage had been done. My vision started to get blurry at the edges.

By the time I reached my home, I was nearly blacked out from the drugs and flying like a drunken gryphon. It was a miracle that the mare on my back had clung on throughout the flight. I landed near the front door, and by landed, I mean crashed into the ground, skidding to a halt ten feet from the door. I was quickly fading from consciousness from the drugs. The last thing I heard and saw was the mare picking me up and saying," thank you mist..." The last part of her sentence was lost to me, but it was enough to bring a smile to my lips as I passed out.

-happy that I finally got this out, howitzer?