A spark shot out of the darkness, before disappearing into nothingness. The only sound that could be heard in the woods was the scraping of metal on stone.
Then another spark of fire shot out, only this time it stayed. The spark grew into a blazing fire, revealing everything hidden in the black curtain of night.

A young girl emerged from the dark, she was around 14 or 15, with long blonde hair flowing down her shoulders. She was dressed in a lavender coloured t-shirt and ripped jeans. Her feet were bare and muddy. The only thing pretty about her was the long green and violet striped scarf around her neck.
It was her pride and joy.

The girl, Violet-Rose had been homeless for two years now.
Unwanted and seen as filth by the townsfolk. From the darkness she pulled out an old pillow sack, where she kept her stuff. Her few belongings were; a water-bottle, a pocket-knife, a camping frying pan, a paper bag, $2 and her diary. Violet rummaged in the sack for the paper bag it was in, a bread roll and a chocolate bar. This was her once a day meal.

She scoffed down half of the bread and put away the rest for tomorrow. As she bit down on the chocolate, she looked up at the stars. She wasn’t always homeless or an orphan. She had a mother and father like everybody else.

Her father worked in the military, so he was often away. Violet was raised by her mother, Daphne Rose. Her mother made perfumes from the flowers she grew in the garden, she taught Violet how to extract the scent from the flowers and mix it with the water. Violet wanted to be a perfume maker just like her mother.

However, when she was 11, her father was shot and killed by an enemy solider in the war. Violet was distraught and shut out everything. Violet didn’t have many friends and those kids who claimed they were her friends, didn’t last long.
So Violet was left with only her mother, until about two years ago, her mother went missing. Her sixteenth birthday was in three months.

Crying, Violet pleaded with all her heart that she would live a better life by then. Softly and quietly, she sung the prayer from her heart.

I don’t know if you can hear me,
Or if you’re even there,
I don’t know if you would listen,
To a teenager’s prayer,

Yes, I know I’m just an outcast,
I shouldn’t speak to you,
But in my heart I’m wondering.
Were you once an outcast too…

When she finished the prayer she held the pillow case close to her chest as the warmth from the fire flowed over her as if she had sunk into a hot bath. She lay down on her side and made a silent wish before closing her eyes into sleep.

“I wish to live a better life.” She wasn’t awake to see the bright flash of gold light appear.

A yellow pegasus mare with long pink hair, had just finished tucking her pet bunny into bed. “Goodnight Angel, sweet dreams.”
The mare switched off the light and closed the door behind her, before she went down stairs. Sitting around on her lengthy green sofa, were five other ponies.
Another pegasus was sitting on the far end, only her fur was cyan coloured and her mane and tail her all the colours of the rainbow. Two earth ponies were sitting on the floor, one was orange with freckles and a blonde mane tied up into a ponytail, she was also wearing a cowgirl hat. The other was a light pink mare with a bouncy dark pink mane and tail, like cotton candy.
A white unicorn with a beautifully curled purple mane was resting in the armchair to the left and sitting in the middle of the sofa was a lavender alicorn with a dark purple mane with magenta streaks.
“Sorry for keeping you waiting girls, Angel was being a little fussy.” said the yellow mare.

“None taken Fluttershy, are we ready to start this Friday Night?” asked the lavender alicorn.

“Not yet Twilight, we still have to wait for Discord.”

As if on cue, there was a pop and a tall serpent like creature emerged. The creature had the head of a pony and various different animal parts. But was made the creature truly chaotic was the one long fang sticking out of his mouth and the yellow eyes with red pupils. Fluttershy smiled at the creature.

“Discord, you’re here. Did you bring the cucumber sandwiches?” Fluttershy asked.

“Right here.” said Discord, summoning up a plate of sandwiches. The rainbow maned pegasus glared at Fluttershy.

“You invited, HIM!” she said, pointing a hoof in Discords face. Fluttershy stepped in.

“He’s my friend Rainbow, I didn’t want him to be left out.” Discord nodded in agreement. “Besides I live here too.”

“Come on ya’ll. Let’s just enjoy this evening.” said the orange mare in a southern accent.

“What do we play first, any ideas?” asked Discord.

“Oooh, I brought Snakes and Ladders with me!” said the pink mare, holding up a board game box. “I’m going to beat you this time, Pinkie.” The unicorn said.

“Not a chance Rarity!” cried Pinkie Pie, rattling the dice.

Fluttershy, Discord, Rainbow Dash and Applejack joined in with the game. Discord ended up winning, much to Pinkie’s displeasure.

At about 9:30pm, the ponies and draconequus were playing Mimes when a bright flash of gold light appeared in the kitchen.

“What in the name of Celestia?!” asked Applejack as the light blinded her.
“Discord did you do something?” Fluttershy asked.

Discord held up his paw and claw. “It wasn’t me. I swear!”

Rainbows ears perked up when she heard a groan.
“There’s something in the kitchen,” she whispered. “Let’s go check it out.”

The rainbow coloured pony tiptoed into the kitchen, the others following. Discord had summoned up a baseball bat with his magic. Everypony jumped when Rainbow gasped at something.

“Gah!”

The ponies soon realised what the fuss was about. Lying in the middle of the kitchen was an ape like creature with blonde hair and dirt covered skin. The creature was also wearing a lavender t-shirt, ripped jeans and around its neck was a green and violet striped scarf. The thing was also holding a lumpy pillow case in its arms.

“What is that thing?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Whatever it is, it smells like a pig.” said Rarity, holding her nose. Twilight pushed through the crowd to get a closer look at the creature.

“Twilight, do you know what this thing is?” Applejack asked, as Twilight knew about most things. “I-I think it’s a human, they’re like monkeys, but they walk on two legs. But I don’t know if they’re dangerous or not.” Fluttershy put a hoof on the human’s shoulder.

“She’s ice cold! Quick! Somepony get a blanket.” she cried. Discord snapped his fingers and handed the yellow pony a blue woollen blanket.

“Anything for you Fluttershy.” he said. Fluttershy gently wrapped the blanket around the human. Everypony jumped when the human stirred.
“She’s waking up!” Rarity gasped. Then the human’s eyes fluttered open.

“What the-” Violet mumbled. She then saw six pastel coloured horses staring at her. The one nearest to her had a butter yellow coat, flowing pink hair and teal eyes. But when Violet saw the wings on the horse’s back she screamed.
“Ahhh!” Violet scrambled back into the kitchen counter. She the realised that she had a blue blanket around her. Her eyes darted at the horses and the…what is that thing? The yellow horse with wings approached her.

“It’s okay, we won’t hurt you.” It said in a female voice. Violet screamed again. It spoke! She was cut off because a pink horse had jumped in front of her.

“Hi!” Violet shrieked and ducked under the blanket (she still had no idea how it got there).
“Whoops! Did I scare you? I didn’t mean to scare you, I just wanted to say hi so we could become best friends forever and…”
Violet could take it anymore and stood up. “Stop it!”

The pink horse raised an eyebrow. “Stop what?”

“Talking! Horses aren’t supposed to talk!”

Violet jumped when she felt something tug on her shirt. She looked down and saw an orange horse wearing a cow girl hat. “The word is pony.”
Violet screamed again. “Oh dear,” said a British voice. “I think we may have frightened her.”

Violet stumbled with her words when she saw what was sticking out of its owner’s head.
“A…uni…uni…” She was then startled by another winged horse, only it was cyan and had a rainbow mane.

“Yes, she’s a unicorn, what’s the matter, never seen a unicorn before.” Violet stumbled slightly. “What in the world?!”

Fortunately, she was saved by the yellow winged horse.
“Girls, back up right now. Your all scaring her half to death.” The horse turned its attention to Violet. “Look, we all know that you’re probably a little scared, but we mean you know harm.”

The horse helped Violet sit down and wrapped the blanket around her. Violet felt safe in this horse’s company and something told her that she knew this horse.
“Now, we’ll let you go and explain everything.” Violet had finally lost it.

“WHERE AM I?! WHO ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU?! AND WHAT IS THAT…” she pointed at the tall creature, “…THING?!”

The monster glared angrily. “THING?!” Do you even know who you’re talking to? I’m Discord, The Lord of Chaos, and I ought to turn you into chocolate milk!”

Violet shrieked, but the yellow pony flew up into the creatures face. “Discord, what have I said about controlling your temper?” she said sternly.

“But she insulted me!”

“Discord!”

“Fine! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine…”

The creature then started to calm down and lowered his paw, which had been ready to snap. The winged horse, smiled gleefully.

“Anyway,” said a purple pony that appeared to be their leader (This one had both wings and horn). “to answer your questions, you are in the land of Equestria.”

Violet blinked.

“I understand. You’ve never heard of it. I don’t blame you. Apparently, no one in your world thinks ponies can talk. As for who we are, I’m Twilight Sparkle. Excuse me, Princess Twilight Sparkle.”

Violet nodded, noticing the crown on her head. “Right…”

“These are my friends: Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. You’ve already met Discord. As you can see, he’s not a pony, but a draconequus.”

Violet knew immediately she was never going to remember that word.

Just then, the one called Pinkie Pie appeared back in her face. “And what’s your name?”

The girl couldn’t find words. “V…V…V…” Rainbow Dash groaned and slapped the human on the back. “Spit it out!”

“Violet-Rose!” she choked.

“Violet-Rose? That’s a pretty name. It’s like the flowers right, do you have flowers in your world?!” asked Pinkie Pie.

Violet couldn’t believe it. She had just been complemented, by a horse.

“Well, my full name is Violet-Rose, but you can call me Violet.”

Twilight then spoke. “Well then, Violet are you really a human?”

Violet nodded.

“This is so exciting! I’ve never had a human friend before! Ooh, we are going to have so much fun! What do humans do? Do you like cupcakes? I love cupcakes! They’re so sweet and cupcake-y!” Pinkie exclaimed.

Applejack pulled her away. “Pinkie! Give the girl some air! She’s probably scared half to death.”

“N-no, it’s fine. Can someone please tell me HOW THE HECK I GOT HERE!”

Then she remembered that she had wished for a better life then living on the streets. “Wait a minute, I made a wish for a better life.”

Then it hit her. She was now in another world; her wish had given her a fresh start in life. But how did it transport her here, of all places.

The ponies and draconequus all looked at her concerned. “What do you mean, a better life?” asked Fluttershy. Violet got up onto her feet and rubbed her shoulder awkwardly.

“My life is a fight for survival back in my world.” she explained.
Fluttershy gasped. “But you do have a home? Don’t you?” she asked.

“No.”

“What about a family?” asked Applejack.

“No, my father passed away and my mother has been missing for two years.”

Applejack looked like she had been struck by lightning.

Twilight looked at Violet with a forced grin. “At least tell us you have friends.”

Violet hung her head. “No, I don’t have anyone left. I’m homeless and alone.”

She then started crying. Fluttershy put a reassuring hoof around her.
“I’m so sorry Violet. You can stay here if you want and start a new life here in Equestria.” Violet looked up at the yellow pony.

“You mean it?”

Fluttershy smiled sweetly at the human.
“Of course, I take care of all kinds of creatures.” Violet couldn’t help but hug the pony.

“Thankyouthankyouthankyou!”

“Hold up, are you really going to let her stay here. You know how the ponies will react when they see a human here? She doesn’t belong!” cried Rainbow Dash.

“Rainbow!” said Applejack, slapping the blue pony over the head.

Violet hung her head. “I don’t belong in my world either, back there I’m a nobody. This is the first time in two years someone has really cared for me, and you’re not even my species.”

“Yippee!!! You’re going to stay! Now I can through you a Welcome to Ponyville party. I have to plan a cake, the decorations, the guests and…”

The eccentric pink pony was cut off by Twilight yanking on her tail.

“Pinkie, settle down please. It’s 9:35 right now, everypony will be sleeping. Besides I think we should all go home and get some sleep. We’ll sort things out in the morning.”

Violet nodded her head, she still wasn’t sure if this was some kind of dream or not.

“Speaking of sleep, I’m just going to make sure this isn’t some kind of weird dream.” Violet shrieked when she pinched her arm.

“Okay, I’m awake. So I am really talking to ponies, a unicorn, winged ponies and…” She stopped at Twilight.

“What about you Twilight. What are you?”

“An Alicorn, all the princesses are alicorns, and by the way Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are pegasi.”

Applejack yawned.

“Twilight, think it’s time to hit the hay I guess.” The southern pony made her way to the door.

Everypony except Fluttershy and Discord followed.

“Goodnight girls, see you in the morning.” said Fluttershy.

“Thanks for inviting us over, Fluttershy.” said Rarity. This must be Fluttershy’s house. Violet thought.

She then noticed that Discord was still there staring at Violet with a look of shock on his face. Violet felt a little uncomfortable with this strange creature staring at her. The sound of Fluttershy’s voice snapped them back into realty.

“Violet, just so you know. Discord lives here too, I’m afraid,” The yellow pegasus turned to look at Discord.

“That means you have to be especially nice to our guest here. She’s starting a new life in Equestria so I want you on your best behaviour.” she said, sternly.

Violet then noticed that Discord was giving Fluttershy a dreamy look.

“Why does he live here with you, are you two dating?” Violet’s question had a shocking reaction.

Both Fluttershy and Discord looked at her stunned, then back at each other, then they looked away from each other awkwardly.
“N-n-no, we’re just friends.” Fluttershy stuttered.

“Whatever gave you the idea that we were dating?” Discord demanded.

Violet shrugged. “I don’t know, you two kind of act like the old married couple who lived on my street. I guess my question is answered.” Violet picked up her stuff and the blanket.

“Right, well I’ll sort out a place for you to sleep Violet, as Discord already had the couch.” said Fluttershy, flying upstairs.

When she was gone it was just Violet and Discord standing in the kitchen. Violet gasped when Discord appeared in her face, with a menacing look in his eyes.

“What gave you the idea that we were dating?!”

“Wha-what, I was just curious.” Violet explained.

“Good, because we’re not.” Violet then saw a pained look in his mismatched eyes. “Wait a minute…Oh My Gosh! You want to date her. You like her!” she said, pointing a finger at his chest.
“Shhh, she’ll hear you!”
“So you do like her. That is sooo cute.” Violet smirked. “Don’t get cocky, I may like her but I don’t know if she likes me.”

Violet knew how he felt, back in middle school she had a crush on this boy. One day he had asked her to a movie. Violet had bought the tickets and everything, it turned out he stood her up and filmed the whole thing before posting to the entire school. Violet felt pity for Discord, but she was still curious on how he and Fluttershy had become roommates, exactly how old was this guy.

Then a sweet honey-like voice called from upstairs. Violet picked up her bag and the blue blanket and followed Discord upstairs, who glared at her.

“Don’t say a thing about my crush on Fluttershy or else.” Violet gulped and nodded. Fluttershy showed Violet over to a trundle bed with a fluffy doona covering it and a feathered pillow. There was also a double bed on the opposite side of the room, no doubt Fluttershy’s bed.

Violet ran her fingers over the soft doona.
“I love it, thank you Fluttershy.” she said with tears in her eyes. Violet then realised she didn’t have any pyjamas with her. She explained what she needed and Discord made a pair of green pyjamas appear on her body, the shirt read ‘I’m with Stupid’ with an arrow pointing up to her face.

“Gee, thanks,” said Violet.

Discord shot her a warning glare at her, before going downstairs. Violet and Fluttershy had already climbed into bed, then Violet saw Fluttershy was eying her suspiciously.

“What gave you the idea that I was dating Discord?” The pony asked in a tone that Violet had not heard before.

“Wait, you like him?”

“Yes, no, oh I don’t know Violet. I want to like him, but my friends already don’t approve of him living here, imagine what they would say if we were dating?”

Violet sighed. “I see your point, but my mother told me that love has no boundaries. If your friends don’t like the idea of you dating him, then that their problem. Besides he might like you too.”

Violet tectonically hadn’t told Fluttershy that Discord did like her, she had told her that he might like her.

When Violet woke up she saw that it was 11:15. She wasn’t sure what had woken her up until she felt her stomach rumble. She looked over at Fluttershy, who was sleeping soundly. Violet tried to fall back asleep, but the nagging hunger kept her awake. She decided that Fluttershy wouldn’t mind if she snuck down to the kitchen for a bite to eat. Softly and quietly, she tiptoed out of bed and into the hallway. The hallway was dark but after living outside for two years her eyes were adjusted to the darkness. As she approached the stairs, she noticed that there was a light coming from down in the living room.

As Violet peered around the corner, she was surprised to see Discord sitting on the couch and he was wearing a fluffy pink robe and bunny slippers. The draconequus looked up and saw her.

“What are you doing up?” he asked.

“I just wanted to get something to eat and why are you wearing a fluffy pink robe?” Violet asked.

“It’s comfy, as for your hunger I could whip something up for you. You like chocolate milk?”

Violet nodded, smiling.

“Say no more!”

Discord then snapped his fingers and Violet gasped when a pink cloud appeared, dripping a brown liquid. He then summoned up a glass and filled it with the liquid, before handing it to Violet, who looked at it unsurely.

“It’s not poisoned if that what you think.” Violet didn’t know about it but she wasn’t going to turn down a potential meal so she took a sip. Her eyes widened and looked up at the draconequus.

“Is this-”

”Chocolate Milk, fresh from the rain cloud.” Discord smirked.

“You can make it rain chocolate milk! That’s so cool!” said Violet, taking a seat down next to Discord.

“That’s not all I can do.” said Discord, taking out a paper cone and scooping up the pink cloud and offered it to Violet. The human girl took a small piece of the sticky cloud and nibbled it. She was even more impressed.
“You can make it rain from cotton candy! Dude that’s amazing.”

“You’re the second one who appreciates my work.” Discord sighed throwing his hands in the air.

“I guess Fluttershy was the first to appreciate your talents?” Discord shook his head.

“No, Pinkie Pie.”

Violet nodded. “Oh that makes sense.”

“Darn it, I’m not supposed to make sense.” Discord cried out.

Violet couldn’t help but giggle at this guy. Pretty soon they were both giggling and drinking chocolate milk when Violet thought about how Discord and Fluttershy had become roommates.

“Um, Discord. How did you and Fluttershy become roommates?” Violet noticed that Discord had a guilty look on his face.

“Um, well before I came to live here, I was encased in stone, twice. The first time was for a thousand years.” Violet gapped at him. This guy was 1,000 years old!
“How did you end up in stone?” she asked.

“You see that milk your drinking.” said Discord, pointing to the half empty glass in Violets hand. Violet blinked.

“They put you in stone for making it rain chocolate milk?” Discord cringed at what he was about to tell her.

“Well, I also turned corn into popcorn, buffalos into ballerinas, roads into soap and literally made pigs fly.” Violet couldn’t help but giggle.

“You may find it funny, but the ponies didn’t.”

“I’d certainly be mad if there was chocolate milk rain and no chocolate chip cookies to go with it. But seriously, talk about the mother of time-outs.” said Violet, taking another gulp of milk.

“You know what? I like you, Violet.”

“I’m beginning to like you too, Discord. Hey, of all the humans who could have been brought into Equestria, why me? I’m nothing special.”

“Oh Violet don’t say that, you are special. And you made a wish for a better life and you got it. You’re now in a world where ponies of different species live in harmony, are you happy here?” Discord wrapped his lion paw around Violet’s shoulder to comfort her.
“You know something, I kind of am.” Violet smiled.

“Well there you have it,” he held out lion paw. “Friends?”

Violet grinned and shook it. “Friends.” she agreed.
“So, about you and Fluttershy…”

His smile disappeared. “You should be in bed!”

He snapped his fingers and Violet found herself in bed again. She sighed. There was no use reasoning with that guy, but he was kind of cool. She snuggled under the covers and concluded that life couldn’t get better than this. She figured she should at least play matchmaker with her hosts at some point.

Author's Note

This story was inspired by Disneyfantic's story 'It's all Hooey'

No copyright infringements intended

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