inner conflicts

by Drawing Heart

Rating: teen
Tags: Twilight Sparkle, Main 6, Discord, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Romance, Spike, Comedy, Adventure
Length: 4059

Discord and Twilight team up to defeat an old, yet mysterious enemy.

Twilight is having nightmares. But once the mare in her dreams threatens her, she finds it hard to sleep. Her friends try to help her, but once Discord gets involved they'll find that this isn't a nightmare but corruption They team up to stop this night-mare, but it turns out even the draconaquus may not be a match for this ever lasting enemy.
* twicord*

Published 2015-12-07 03:00:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-12-29 21:40:55 UTC

sleepless and kitten * dont judge ch. name*

sleepless and kitten * dont judge ch. name*

It was a plain and boring day in the castle of the "Princess of Friendship". Even Discord couldn't get used to that title yet, so he didn't blame Twilight for her stress. But did she really need to stay up TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT ?!! Discord looked around. The crystal walls and floors were practically bare, with the occasion of a poster of the Wonderbolts or two. The crystalline floors were polished so that you could see your very reflection. And he didn't like that at all, it at least needed a little chaos. He was sure even Twilight wanted something like that to make her castle look more like a home rather then a lion's cave. Sadly, if Fluttershy caught him doing anything to disturb the peace and stress out Twilight more, she would disapprove. AANNYYTTHHIINNGG BUT HER DISAPPROVING EYEBALLLSS!!! Fluttershy and the others took notice of Twilight's lack of sleep, and all of them were too busy to make time in their schedule for getting her to rest. Leaving Discord the pony for the job. Discord tried everything in the book, spells, trances and even warm milk, but Twilight would always jerk back up awake. So now, he was actually going to try reading a book with her.

The various windows were open allowing sunlight to come through and beam apon seven thrones, in which one of the thrones were occupied by to figures. Twilight Sparkle was reading a book with saggy, violet eyes; her navy blue mane was pulled back in a bun, but due to neglect the pink and purple strands dangled on her lavender fur. The castle itself was a bluish-purple color, and was shaped like the tree of harmony itself, sharing the same crystalline structure. Despite the beauty of it all, it still felt like an empty, lonely place for Twilight. Therefore, she enjoyed the company of a certain draconaquus she would otherwise do anything to make go away. The mismatched creature was resting against Twilight's back, his long, furry, brown body a perfect pillow for the half asleep mare. Discord's long, gray- almost giraffe-like neck wrapped around Twilight's waist. His horse-like head consisted of two different antlers, one being an antelope's and the other being a deer. His dragon ears drooped around his slender face with a mis-matching pair (no pun intended ;3) of sagging,golden eyes to go with it. Discord's head was resting on the arm rest, allowing sleepy Twilight to stroke his short, black mane. Meanwhile, his long ( sorry I can't find another synonym for" long" so you might be hearing that word alot) red,scaled dragon's tail wrapped around the rest of Twilight's body providing a prop to the book they were reading. Twilight was too drowsy to hold the book up herself.

You would think these two were a couple if you saw them, but Twilight is known for cuddling up against things when she is tired, as Discord is known for invading personal space* as we as a community DEFINETLY already know* . Discord was getting tired himself and just realized that by trying to get Twilight to sleep for the last week, he had been losing sleep himself. He mentally cursed himself as he sneezed, Twilight's head jerked up wide awake. "Chaos cheese!!" But to Discord's luck her eyes closed once more and he didn't let a single breath till he heard the content sound of snoring. This was it! Twilight was about to fall asleep and Discord would get the nap he truly deserved. As Twilight 's head sank deeper into his brown fur, Discord got a whiff of the shampoo in her hair. It smelled like flowers, maybe lilies? Discord -as always- let his curiosity get the best of him as he got a couple of the dangling strands in her hair and sniffed them some more. Yep, no doubt about it that was definetly lilies. When Discord was certain Twilight was asleep, he gently picked her up and started to carry her through a grand hall of rooms.

The halls were the same material as the rest of the castle, but it seemed even more empty most likely due to the abundant amount of rooms that practically weren't even being used. That brought another idea to Discord's head. What if Twilight was so stressed because she felt lonely. Maybe instead of asking ponies to stay with her to keep her company, she just reads and organizes books, awaiting to be called by a map. Maybe since she's still new at this whole princess thing, she thinks she has to be perfect, or else she would have a bad reputation. That would explain why she hid her jelousy of her friends bonding with Discord. She wants to look perfect so maybe ponies will think of her as a princess who cares. Twilight was sort of known for being a lunatic if everything wasn't perfect, maybe she didn't want that sort of thing to happen as a princess or else other ponies might not look up to her. That or it was a nightmare... yeah right. Twilight Sparkle would never let anything like that get the best of her.

Discord's drowsiness was getting the best of him as he got lost in thought, he was wobbling down this loooong hallway as his green dragon leg and goat leg nearly kept tripping over one another. His navy blue bat wing and light-blue pegusas wing, normally folded neatly halfway down his long, brown body, were hanging limp. Discord's vision was getting blurry, due to his lack of sleep, and all he could think of anything else after a while but getting some sleep. Twilight nuzzled his lion paw and purred in her sleep. Discord smiled, she was just like a kitten, then there was a meow. The sound brought him back to focus as his ears pricked up. He looked around for a cat, he hated those things, but no creature was to be found. He kept walking (if that's what you even call it) down the hallway until the door with Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark came into view. Discord opened the door and was greeted with darkness. But snoring could be heard inside, dragon snoring to be precise.

Spike, before Discord, had tried to keep to help Twilight, but failed and fell asleep. As the draconaquus got further into the room he started to notice how big the inside was. Several wooden book cases could be seen though how many books were hard to make out. Discord didn't know if it was due to the lack of light, or his lack of sleep. Twilight's bed was big enough to comfortably fit ten ponies, its comforter was blue with a yellow star pattern on it. Most likely to preserve memories from her old home in the Golden Oak Library before it was blown up by Tirek. Discord only then realized how fluffy the bed was when he set Twilight in it. She sank in it until you could only see the tip of her cold, wet, black nose. Wait- COLD, WET, BLACK NOSE?!! Eh... it was probably his chaotic imagination playing tricks on him. The bed was scattered with fluffy pillows of different shades of yellow and blue.

Discord shut the doors with a snap of his lion paw, making it pitch black in the room his work was done, and now he could go home. He snapped his talon to teleport to his home, even though he knew it took a lot of strength and concentration . But when he was greeted by the cusion of his bed, he knew he was home. Discord closed his eyes and hugged his teddy bear close, and fell asleep

"HEY! DISCORD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN TWILIGHT'S ROOM!" It was only a couple hours later when Discord awoke to Spike yelling and giving him a hell stare. The purple dragon's green spikes were standing on edge a bit more then usual. Discord at first was dumbfounded, and after his mind stopped being all discombobulated, realized he was definetly in Twilight's room, even worse though, on her bed. And his so called teddy bear was Twilight herself. He knew he was definetley in for it now, so Discord slid off it slowly hoping it would cause the confused baby dragon to calm down a little bit.

" I um.... "

"I DON'T NEED TO HEAR ANY EXCUSES YOU PERVE!!" Wasn't Spike a bit young to think wrong? Discord face palmed...er pawed..whatever. *Spike ruined the cute fanfiction by thinking wrong... a kids show my flank.* Twilight, due to the commotion woke up with panicked eyes. But there was something off about her. Her ears were rounder and more triangular. And turns out he wasn't hallucinating last night either , Twilight had a cold wet nose and as she got up, she had paws. Discord cursed himself.

" Chaos cheese!" He had probably been so tired, his magic did everything he didn't want it to. Darn chaos magic, you had to be up and at your best to master it. "Look, Twilight, I'm sorry, my magic just really wasn't at its best last night...... oh sweet mother of chaos, Spike stop looking at me like that!!"

"What!!? I'm big enough to understand what your saying.... and your lying... you have a crush on her don't you." Discord was scared of whatever the dragon was thinking, but didn't want to find out...Spike was a weirdo anyway. * Flash Centry is worse though:pinkiecrazy:

"Excuse me? Spike has anypony told you that you suck as a character?"

"Has anypony told you that your a perve?!"

"Why, thank you Spike, but don't you think I'm a bit more then that? And plus stop using that word... you'll ruin people's childhood."

"You mean, other then a lunatic, trouble maker and being of confusion? And I don't need to stop using any words...especially when they're about you!"

" Wow Spike you really do suck, even the bronies don't like you...and your a nerd too.."
Twilight meowed and purred, rubbing her bushy kitten tail on Spike, and hissed at Discord. Her tail was navy blue and had pink and purple ends.

"What's a BRONY?"

"I don't know, but they think you suck."

" JUST TURN TWILIGHT SPARKLE BACK!!!"

"Fine." Discord snapped his lion paw and Twilight turned back into her alicorn, only for her to sock him in the face with her lavender hoof. And with the best pokerface ever she simply stated

"You. Get. Out."

"Hey! You know how much work I did getting you to fall asleep?"

"I don't need sleep, now get out and leave me alone!"

"Mares." Discord muttered as he walked out of Twilight's room.

"What was that?"

"Nothing!"Discord shut the door and pouted. Not only was he not going to be able to tell Fluttershy he was able to help Twilight. But now he had to tell her that they were both mad at him. Why did these things always happen to him?

Author's Note

Well here it is, My first fanfic chapter! I'm sorry if I didn't develop Discord very well, but character development takes time, and certaintly cant be done in one chapter. So I hope you all like it?! Stay brony my friends! Until the next chapter.

Nightmares seriously?

Author's Note

I know the first chapter was really short, and so was the wait:twilightblush:, but as the chapters progress, I'm sure this will get more likes. This chapter will be longer,and I sure do hope you like it. And thanks for the watches and likes, I :heart: u guys:raritystarry:

Nightmares seriously?

Discord walked down the long hall again, muttering to himself as he went. Twilight was a jerk, and Spike sucked. His nap helped him regain his strength and enhanced his vision. Discord's red pupils were more aware of its surroundings. The crystal walls were sparkling, and had a new smell to them, as if they hadn't been touched before. That just proved how big the castle was, so big there were even areas and places Twilight Sparkle hadn't even gone to yet. It was very quiet in the castle, so quiet in fact it was like you could hear the air. Air. Too quiet for Discord's taste, it made him feel lonely almost. Like their was no one in the world who cared or could understand your feelings. Even to him this huge castle, felt like a prison cell, and that was when two others were in the castle with him, imagine what Twilight must feel like every day alone on her throne, waiting to be called by a map, even Spike can't always be by her side. Discord gulped, he couldn't leave Twilight alone. He would sit on one of the white wooden thrones, and wait for that thought-consuming mare to wake up again.

Twilight fluttered open her violet eyes. She could see trees, the green leaves on them looked like dogs, trying to escape their leashes. The wind hit Twilight's face like a knife. There was no space, this forest was super thick and the branches scraped and scratched at the alicorn's face, as if beating her up for invading their space. Thorn bushes were scattered amongst the trees, one bush in particular got caught on Sparkle's wing. Terrified because she thought sompony grabbed her, she pulled on it and tried to run. Her wing however, got cut very deeply cut, purple feathers were flying everywhere and blood soaked her body. Twilight instantly cried out in pain, and fell. The mud made a sickening "sploosh" sound when she landed. Water flowed down her body, causing her wing to sting. It was raining and the smell of dust was every where. Twilight got up and hesitantly limped forward. She had no choice, flying was out of the question. She could here a voice nearby, it was a deep female voice, kind of like Zecora's. Twilight let herself move forward taking one step at a time. Her fur was now a brown and red color, the plants around her seemed to be dying, the further she limped into the forest the more brown and burnt the leaves and the trees were.

Soon there was nothing but stumps, so dark and wet, nothing to be seen but the light from Twilight's horn which allowed her to observe where she stepped. The magenta aura sent little sparkles into her surrounding, like a burning fire sends sparks into the sky. This allowed her to see little bits of what the area around her looked like. It felt as if she were being pulled in to the dark, deadly forest, as if in a trance. The stumps were opening like a wave leaving a large gap in this creepy forest. But soon there was a much more disturbing structure then dead plants, In the mud scattered were skeletons of unfortunate ponies who had suffered the fate of what Twilight would soon suffer. Twilight now wanted to turn away but when she turned around there was nothing but black, like a wall closing in on her. She turned back around to see that there were five crystals floating above the skulls. It didn't take long for Twilight Sparkle to recognize them, they were the elements of Harmony. A skull to the left of her had a glowing, pink butterfly gem floating above it. The skull on the right of her had a glowing orange apple gem. A skull farther in front had a purple diamond gem, the one behind her a red lightning bolt. One skull was badly damaged but a blue balloon could be seen floating above it. Twilight knew this was a dream. She'd had the same one many times before. And she hated it, because seeing her friends...dead and herself alive and healthy. It gave her this funny feeling, like maybe this was a vision of the future. "NO! WAKE UP!!!!WAKE UP!!!!"

"Oh don't be so modest..you know as well as I that this isn't a dream, but I can help you stop it from happening" said a deep female voice from behind. Up closer Twilight realized the voice didn't sound much like Zecora's as it did from afar. It sounded like Zecora,but with a sinister tone like nightmare moon, but it also had an echo to it like Chysalus.

"This is'nt supposed to happen.." Thought Twilight. She turned around to face a sleek female alicornish figure. The first thing Twilight noticed in the dark was her glowing red irises and a reptilian pupil.She had a green cornea, the purple glowing purple smoke proving she wasn't a pony to be trusted. Wait scratch that. It definetly wasn't to be messed with, but it was no pony. As the thing decended into the light provided by the elements, Twilight could see the creature was a dull whitish green and covered in scales. She had a holy horn like chrsalus and bat wings. Soon her hooves....er legs could be seen. She had razor sharp claws almost like dragons in the front and lion paws in the back. Following close was a long rattlesnake tail.

"But we'll continue this another time...you have a draconaquus to talk to. Don't want to deal with this alone if I were you." And just like that the scenery started to fade away, like when you clearly see something in the ocean water and the waves come and you can't see it any more. Twilight woke up... without panic for the first time in two weeks. She fluttered open her violet eyes to be greeted by the smell of warm pastries. The sweet smell of cakes and cinnamon soothed her worry.

" Spike really out did himself this time." she said to herself. Twilight got up and walked out of her room, she was so used to the warmth of her blanket , that as her hooves clicked on the cold crystalline floor she felt like she was in that freezing forest again. But she kept trotting and eventually her body adapted to the temperature of the castle. The scent got stronger and her stomach was getting impatient. It rumbled, like she had never had food before. As she rounded the corner to the kitchen, she was surprised to see Discord set a tray of many different pastries on the table, Spike was nowhere to be seen.

"Morning Twilight, eat something would you? The foods getting cold." Discords deep voice always sent shivers down Sparkle's spine for whatever reason. Twilight sat at the table, the cloth was decorated with the same yellow star pattern as her blanket, and the chairs were wooden and had a blue cushion at the bottom.

"Where is Spike? I thought he'd be down here by now."

" He left to Rarity's place to let off some hot air...I guess that must be one of his many excuses he uses to drool all over that white chick for a few hours." Discord handed Twilight a plate covered with chocolate donuts and cinnamon rolls, the warmth of the greasy crisp brown pastry melted the chocolate and it drizzled all over the cinnamon rolls making Twilight's mouth water. Discord smirked, his snaggle tooth sticking out of his mouth like it always did. " I am a good cooker, Sparky Mc. Sparkle Butt, don't worry. I didn't poison it." Twilight frowned at the nickname but couldn't help giggling at its randomness.

" Really, Sparky Mc. Sparkle Butt? My flank has a star, not a sparkle."

" You can be very literal sometimes Sparky."

"That's my job...I like youre cooking by the way...I'm just afraid that I'm going to choke on something."

" Why is that?"

"Because you may not be hiding something in the food, but your purposefully trying to make me laugh and choke."

" Sweet Celestia, your so blunt. Are you always like this."

"Eh, only when you are around." Discord gave Twilight a weird smile and scooted closer to her after she said that.

"Why? Are trying to hide something from me?"

" What do you mean? I'm not hiding anything?" Discord's smile widened and he scooted even closer.

" You are definetly hiding something, awe... your so cute when your in denial." Twilight tried to ignore him and took another delicate bite
out of a cinnamon roll, but Discord knew he was getting under her skin when he saw her blush. Twilight finished her food and started washing her plate, but Discord's antics continued.

" Aaawwweee..... your blushing, your so cute!!!" Twilight started walking to the throne room ignoring him. It was then Discord noticed something about the mares wings. Twilight normally had her wings folded neatly on her back, but this time one of her wings were in an akward position. It was dangling and stiff, the muscles were tightened, meaning that she was afraid to move it. Discord decided to talk to her about it," Hey Twilight, what happened to your wing?" Twilight remembered what happened to her wing in the dream, and realized she still had it in the same painful position. She imediatley folded it back.

" Oh, nothing." Twilight gave her best smile and sat on her throne. Discord was still suspicious but decided to interrogate her on a different matter. He summoned his own throne with a Discord face on it.

" Say Twilight, you wanna talk to me about your stress with things lately? I mean, it must be something very serious if you kept refusing to sleep." Twilight gulped and remembered what the unusual mare had told her. Twilight needed to tell Discord, she didn't want to be alone on whatever was going to happen next. She took a deep breath.

" I've been having.... nightmares." Twilight heard Discord laugh, and she wanted to disappear.

" NIGHTMARES SERIOUSLY!!!??" Discord was wasting time for a mare having nightmares. Twilight felt like she was being cornered in a tight spot and couldn't escape. A lump was forming in her throat making it hard to speak, she felt so embarrassed around Discord sometimes.

" But you don't understand! Every night I have the same one! I am walking through a thick muddy forest in the middle of the night and it's raining. My wing gets caught on a bush and I pull at it and it gets injured. Its completely dark and I hear a voice overhead. I follow it. There is an opening and I see my friends dead around me. I try to get away but I find myself trapped. Everypony has there elements floating above their bodies, and there I am.... alive and young..." Twilight started crying tears streaming down her face. Discord frowned and felt guilty for laughing at her." What if I'm immortal, Discord? What if I stay young while my friends grow old and die around me? And I get reminded of this pain, Every. Single. Night." Discord grabbed the crying mare and held her close.

" I'm sorry Spa-Twilight, really I am. Immortality is a serious thing to deal with. Friends grow old and die around you, but please, don't make the same mistake I made." Twilight sniffled.

" What?"

I got angered by losing my friends so much, that I gave up on friendship. I envied the happiness of others around me, and let my jelousy and hatred of others around me turn into pure evil. I started destroying the harmony and friendship of the ponies of equestrian. I got so indulged into that I became greedy and self centered, I dethroned the princesses. Over the years that's just what I got used to, turning the lives of other ponies into chaos. And I eventually got what I deserved. But you ponies were so nice as to offer me friendship, despite my past mistakes. And that taught me something, your friends will never truly be gone, as long as you remember and respect them, and keep that friendship going."

Twilight smiled and wiped the tears from her eyes." Thank you, Discord, I'm glad to have you as a friend" She wrapped her hooves around Discord's brown body, giving him a tight hug.

" Your welcome Twilight," Discord smiled and hugged her back. And they both shared in the friendly embrace.