Chaos Shift

Chapter 3:

Questions

Shift looked at the glass of milk that had appeared on his desk. "Hello?" he called out thinking somepony must have put ti there and ran off when he wasn't looking. Unsurprisingly he didn't get a response, which caused him to move nervously towards the stairs that led downstairs to call out again. "Is somepony there?" again no answer. Shift blinked a few times his spiral blue eyes displaying fear and confusion. Looking back to his desk Shift began to examine the glass of milk. The sides of the glass where starting to fog up a little showing that the milk was cold. He walked over to it and sniffed it a few times discovering that it wasn't expired but was instead, at the most, still fresh. Shift decided it wasn't worth the risk, anypony could have put anything in the mile that wouldn't change it's color or appearance. Despite coming to this conclusion he subconsciously picked up the milk and started to chug it. A few gulps later he realized he wasn't drinking the milk at all, he was drinking the glass the milk was in! surprisingly it wasn't that bad it sort of tasted like a fruit punch that had been 'enhanced' with soda water. When he finished drinking the glass he found himself holding a solid block of milk "This can't be real, no no this must be a dream, yeah a dream" he threw the solid block of milk back flinging it out the window. A few seconds later he heard an explosion and somepony yelling "No not my cabbages!". Shift quickly looked out the window he had thrown the milk to see a street vendor's cart that had been previously loaded with cabbages was now a pile of planks and heavily tenderized cabbage chunks. The vendor, who was wearing a green bandana and a green tunic of sorts, was weeping over the pile of cabbages "They were too young!" he cried out in between sobs. Pony that walked by gave him sympathetic looks but nothing could really be done.

Shift couldn't stop himself from laughing, so he did the next best thing, he slammed his window shut and began howling with laughter hoping no one would be able to hear him. This was the best thing he had seen in so long, the unrealistic nature of the situation, the unexpectedness of such a thing happening in such a village, not to mention the great drama the street vendor put on for him. This was the stuff of dreams, and that could only mean two things. Either Discord really was his creator and he held a small part of his power, or that he was dreaming one of the best dreams he had had in years. Shift decided there was at least one way to figure out weather or not it was a dream, he would slap himself....hard. Shift readied his hoof, and with all his might he smacked himself across the muzzle only to feel an incredible pain surge from the nerves of his cheeks through his spine and into his brain which told him, 'what are you doing you stupid idiot that hurts us'. Shift gave out a yelp and felt his mouth, luckily he wasn't to strong with his front legs, else he would be sporting a new toothless son of discord look. Shift got back up and blinked realizing that he really was a Colt of Discord, The Discord, as in the one who once ruled over Equestria before being sealed away by the Princesses and the Elements of Harmony, yeah that Discord. At this revelation he realized where the milk had now come from. It was put there by none other than Shift himself, using the powers of chaos that flowed through his body. A small flash lit up the room and he looked around wondering where it had come from. Not seeing anything new in the room, Shift shrugged it off as nothing and went downstairs getting ready to go to the Library. If he was the son of Chaos then he had some more reading up to do about the past, and he also needed to see if there were any other recorded cases of Ponies born of Chaos before him.

The walk from his house to the Library was rather uneventful as he had decided against trying to use his power again, instead he would stick to simple unicorn magic unless it was an emergency. Wait if I have powers of Chaos could I use it to increase my magic abilities? he thought about it for a few seconds before realizing he had stopping in the middle of the road and other ponies were starting to give him strange looks. He continued on towards the Library, and after a few more random stops with random thoughts having to do with Chaos, Discord, and a stray bit that he pocketed, he had finally reached his destination. The large tree that was Ponyville's library towered over the young colt. He was always impressed with the library when ever he saw it, he never understood what kind of pony would look at this tree and think 'I could fit a library in that ol' thing just give me and axe 3 days and a whole lot of cider and it's good as done'. Ok so maybe whoever built it hadn't thought along those exact lines but they must have been on something when they conceived the idea. Shift blinked a few times trying to get back on subject, he wasn't hear to make baseless assumptions about the fool who built the library he was here to study in it. He picked up his hoof and knocked on the door putting on a smile for when someone answered it.

Okay so I know what a few of you guys are thinking 'why didn't you update yesterday?' and honestly I'm not sure. Anyways I realize this chapter is a little shorter compared to the previous 2 but that's only because I was in a hurry to finish this one as it is currently 1 in the morning and I don't function well without sleep. Also I would really appreciate any comments on what you guys think of the story, good, bad, average, boring, funny, anything, I don't care if your scared of being to mean harsh or cruel I want to know, how I'm doing. Also I'm still rather new at writing Fanfics, and writing stories in general so let me know if there's anything I can do to improve how I'm writing. Thanks for reading, and I should have a new chapter up every day or every other day from now on.