Violet-Rose Equestria Tales

by Fizzyberries302

Rating: teen
Tags: Discord, Slice of Life, Alternate Universe, Human, Sad, Main 6, Changelings, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Romance
Length: 41179

Violet-Rose is a depressed, homeless teenager who lives in the woods near a junkyard. She then suddenly finds herself in the magical land of Equestria, where she meets 6 ponies and a certain draconequus, where she discovers a secret of her past.

Violet-Rose is a depressed, homeless teenager who lives in the woods near a junkyard after her mother disappeared years ago. Living on what little money she has, she wishes for a better life. She then suddenly finds herself in the magical land of Equestria, where she meets six ponies and a certain draconequus. As Violet adjusts to her new life as a pony, she is pulled into a journey to find out what happened to her mother, where Violet discovers a shocking secret of her past.

Published 2016-11-09 04:10:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-11-09 04:10:01 UTC

I Wish...

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

DF if you see this , You Rock Girl!!!!! :pinkiehappy::raritystarry::pinkiehappy:

Adjusting

Violet woke to a beam of light shining through the window.
Window! She bolted upright and remembered that she was no longer on the streets, but instead she was lying on a soft trundle bed.

Violet saw that the large bed on the opposite side of the room was empty and there was a sweet smell coming from down stairs. Violet looked at the clock on the wall.

It was 7:15am.

Violet climbed out of the bed and into the bathroom, she took a lifelong shower and washed all the dirt, mud and sweat off her body and washed her hair, three times. After drying herself of she got back into the clothes that Discord gave her and wrapped her treasured scarf around her neck. As Violet made her way down she saw that Discord was still asleep on the couch and Fluttershy was making some pancakes.

“Oh good morning Violet, did you sleep well?” Violet beamed at the pegasus.

“Are you kidding! That was the best night's sleep I've had in years.” Fluttershy smiled at the human.

“I’m glad to hear that.”

There was a groan and Violet spun around to see that Discord had woken up. “What time is it?” he asked, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

Violet checked the time on the wall-clock. “About quarter past seven.”

Fluttershy gasped. “I should go feed the animals, Violet could you watch the pancakes please?”

“Sure, wait feed what animals?”

“Fluttershy cares for the animals and birds in Ponyville. They’re her pets.” Discord explained.

“Oh that explains all the feathers and hair on the floor.” Violet said, while flipping the pancakes over.

“What do you know about romance?” asked Discord.

Violet jerked her head around to face him. “Pardon?”

“What do you know about romance?” he repeated.

Violet raised an eyebrow and smirked. “Is this about Fluttershy?”
Discord rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. “Yes…so what can you tell me about romance?”

“Your asked me?!” said Violet, as she lifted the now cooked pancakes onto a plate.

“Well duh, you’re a girl aren’t you. You know what girls like, so how do I get Fluttershy to like me? Quickly, before she comes back.” said Discord in a panicked tone.

“Okay, okay, don’t get your tail in a knot. I guess I know a little bit about romance.” Discords mouth turned up into a big goofy grin.
“Perfect! You can be my...what’s the word?”

“Matchmaker.” Violet finished for him.

“Matchmaker, that’s it. So what can you tell me about romance.”

“Oh, um…” Violet stammered. “Where do you want me to start?”

“First tell me why she doesn’t like me!” Violet’s mouth fell open.

“What do mean she doesn’t like you? Of course she likes you!” Discord frowned and turned away with his arms crossed.
“Really, well that certainly doesn’t seem to be the case. I mean the other day, before you came along. We were out shopping in the market and I saw a stallion looking at Fluttershy and I kind of…”

The draconequus pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. “I turned the stallion into an orange.”

“YOU DID WHAT!!!” Violet screamed.

“He was making goo-goo eyes at my Fluttershy! I had to teach him a lesson, however Fluttershy wasn’t too pleased.” he explained.

Violet rolled her eyes. “I think I know what’s going on.”

“Then tell me what I’m doing wrong!” Violet twiddled her fingers. “Well, how do I put this lightly?”

“Is it my looks?” Discord asked. “No! Girls like Fluttershy don’t care about looks, some girls might but not Fluttershy. I think the problem is that you might be coming on a bit too strong with her.”

“Coming on too strong! What are you saying?” “I’m saying that you might be rushing things, you know. Pushing her too far.” Violet explained.
“I don’t rush things. It’s not like I’ve asked her to marry me or something.”

Violet cringed at this comment. “I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that, but just to prove my theory is correct. Have you done anything else to…guys that hit on Fluttershy?”

Discord bit his lip. “Well, there was one time when we were at the Summer Sun Celebration Party, a stallion walked up to Fluttershy and asked her out, but he wouldn’t take no for an answer and I may have turned him into a mouse.”

Violet nodded. “I see, any other times?”

“Well, there have been multiple times where ponies cut into the line in front of her and other times when stallions are acting all creepy towards her. I was just trying to be a good friend and protect her.”

“Say no more, I think it’s clear what’s going on. You’re being a bit of a bully.”

Discords mouth fell open. “A bully! I’m not a bully! Sure, I took over Equestria a few times, but I’m good now!”

“You may not be an evil villain but… Okay, you do still pull pranks on ponies, do you not.”

Violet gave Discord a glare.

“Yeah, and they are hilarious.” Discord cackled.

“Well I don’t think the ponies like it, I certainly wouldn’t like it if you pranked me, how would you like it if someone pranked you?”

Discord tried to speak, but he had nothing to say in defence.

“Well played Violet, well played. But how do I fix this mess?” he asked in a pleading tone.

“You could try and be more gentlemanlike. You know, be classy. Do stuff her like open doors, carry her things, go all Sir Walter Raleigh and lay your coat over a puddle.” Violet explained.

“But I don’t wear a coat and who is this Sir Walter Raleigh?”

Violet face palmed herself. “Never mind that, my point is that you should be nicer to the ponies as well as Fluttershy, but for creeps who are pestering her I think a firm warning will work just fine. I think Fluttershy will like you more if you did so.”

"Oh yak, yak, yak!” He made a mouth motion with his claw. “Get to the point!”

“Hey! I’m trying to help you get the girl here. Why don’t we try something else here, like…compliments? What is it that you like about Fluttershy?” Violet asked.

Discord thought for a moment. “What’s not to like about her? After all, she’s…she’s…” His eyes trailed off into space.

“She’s the kindest, most beautiful pony who has ever lived. So delicate and graceful, like a flower. Usually I’d turn a flower into a lollipop, but not Fluttershy.” He sighed dreamily. “Even her name is graceful! I thought nothing of her looks when I first saw her, but when she first called me her friend…it was like an angel had dropped from heaven. Her eyes, they’re like staring into the sea, and boy, are they a wonder when she looks at you with those eyes. Her mane, so soft like silk. And her voice…oh! Don’t even get me started on her voice! She’s an angel, perfect in everything I’m not. And she doesn’t even try!”

“And she treats me like she would a normal stallion, not a monster. She brings out the good in me, without her in my life, I have nothing left to live. Without my sweet Fluttershy, my life has no meaning.” In his outburst he had forgotten that Violet was standing right there and everything he had been holding back had poured out.

Violet, meanwhile, was standing there with her mouth open. “Wow,” she uttered.

Discord blinked out of his daydream and blushed bright red. “Pretend you didn’t hear that!”

“Are you kidding, that was beautiful. That is the sort of thing you need to say to Fluttershy.”

“Violet, if I say that she’ll think of me as a fool.”

“Discord, you don’t know that. Look at yourself, what do you see?” Discord summoned up a lengthy mirror and looked at his reflection.

“I see a misshapen creature with nothing to gain and nothing to give.” he said, with a sad look in his eyes. Violet put her hand on his shoulder.

“You know what I see, I see the heart of a prince. A longing prince who is yearning for the heart of his love. I also see someone who is scared and confused, but I also see bravery that needs to come out, a faint heart never wins the fair lady.”

Discord looked into Violet’s eyes through her own reflection. “Your right, I do need to come forward, but I’m afraid that she’ll leave me for another stallion.”

“Discord, you’re getting yourself all worked up over nothing. Just be yourself, the perfect you.”

“Violet, I’m anything but perfect, just look at me.” The expression on his face was something that Violet had not expected of the draconequus. It was a sad, defeated look. She thought that he was not the type of guy who cared about what others thought of his appearance, but it turned out he did. He just refused to show it.

“You really like this girl, don’t you?”

Then she remembered the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ story she loved as a kid. Violet figured she should tell the story to Discord.

“Hey, why don’t you sit down for a bit, I have something to tell you.” Violet sat Discord down on the couch and looked straight into his eyes. “This is a story that my mother told me,” she began. “Once upon a time, a young prince lived in a shining castle, although he was loved and cherished, the prince was spoiled, selfish and unkind. Then, one winters night an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter. Repulsed by her appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away, but she warned him, not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. But when the prince dismissed her again, the old woman’s ugliness melted away, revealing a beautiful enchantress. The prince tried to apologies but it was too late and as his punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast. Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside the castle, the rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose which would bloom until his twenty first year. If he could learn to love another and earn her love by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken, if not he would be doomed and remain a beast for all eternity.”

Discord’s eyes widened at the story, he was intrigued but had little idea on what the story had to do with him and Fluttershy. “What happened to the beast?” he asked.

“He remained in the castle, but then, one month before his twenty first birthday, a merchant came to the castle, the beast found him and locked him away in a cell. But the merchant also had a daughter, who’s beauty was known for miles around. The girl followed her father’s tracks to the castle and found him locked in the tower. The beast found her too, then the girl made the bravest decision she could make. She went in her father’s place.” Violet explained.

“The girls first few weeks at the castle were hard, but then the beast started treating her differently, he gave her food, clothing, a room of her own, he gave her gifts and respected her space. Then the impossible happened, they fell in love. Over the time the girl had stayed in the castle, she had managed to warm the beasts ice cold heart, reforming him for good. But the girl missed her father terribly, so the beast released her.”

“WHAT! Why did he do that?!” Discord demanded.

“Discord will you shut up so I can finish the story!”

Discord was silent after that. “Continue.”

“Anyway; without the girl, the beast felt empty and alone. But you know something, she returned to him and they finally confessed their feelings for each other.”

Discord raised an eyebrow. “How does this apply to me, are you saying that I have to be like the beast in the story? But what I don’t get is why he let her go in the first place.” he asked.

“The girl missed her father, the beast didn’t want to see her sad, so he let her go. Because he loved her, he let her go.” Violet explained for him. She grinned when Discord jumped up from his seat.

“Alright! I’m going to try and be more gentlemanlike.”

“That’s the ticket son!” cried Violet, giving Discord a slap on the back. “I’m not your son.”

Violet laughed. “It’s a figure of speech.”

Just then the front door opened and Fluttershy stepped inside. “So sorry guys. I had to run to the store for more chicken feed, I also invited the girls and Spike over for breakfast. Are the pancakes done?” she asked.

“Yes, they might be a little cold though.” said Violet.

“I can fix that.” said Discord. The spirit of chaos snapped his fingers and a large table with a blue table cloth appeared with nine plates, each with at least twenty steaming pancakes on it.

“Thankyou Discord., but please don’t enchant the syrup this time.” said Fluttershy.

Discord groaned. “One gravy boat coming alive and your labelled for life.”

Violet looked Discord in the eye. “What did you do?”

Discord bit his lip. “On the day Celestia had Twilight and her friends bring me out of stone, Fluttershy invited her friends and I over for lunch and I may have made the gravy boat come alive, along with the soup tureen and candles. Bear in mind, I hadn’t been reformed yet.” he explained.

Then there was a knock at the door, Fluttershy opened it and the other five ponies were standing there, but Violet then noticed a small purple reptile like creature standing by Twilight. “Is that a dragon?!” she asked out loud.

The dragon looked up at Violet. “You must be the human Twilight was telling me about. I’m Spike, what’s your name.” it said.

Violet gasped. “You can talk?”

Twilight stepped in and said. “Spike, this is Violet. She’s going to start a new life in Equestria and she’s not used to ponies talking or dragons.”

Spike looked away, sheepishly. “Oh, sorry Violet.”

Everybody in the room was startled by Rainbow Dash’s voice.

“Oh no! I am not eating anymore meals with that- “ She was cut off by someone pulling on her tail. She had expected it to be Applejack, but instead it was Violet who was wearing a stern look on her face.

“Do me a favour Rainbow and quit being a party pooper.” The human let go and Discord was rolled around on the floor in laughter, clutching his belly.

Rainbow was lost for words.

“Party! Did somepony say party? Oh that reminds me, I still have to throw Violet the Welcome Party.” cried Pinkie Pie.

“Why don’t we all have something to eat first.” said Applejack. As they ate breakfast, the ponies asked Violet questions about the human world.

“Do you wear clothes all the time or only on special occasions?” Rarity asked.

“All the time,” Violet replied.

“So you can always be fashionable, right?”

“If you’re that type of person, then yes.”

“Well, if that’s the sort of thing humans wear, your species must have a poor taste in fashion.” Violet glanced down at her pyjamas.

“Oh these are for sleeping in and those clothes that I was wearing yesterday were the only clothes I had.”

“If you don’t have pegasi,” Rainbow Dash interrupted, “who controls the weather?”

“No one controls the weather.”

The blue pegasus looked like she had been stabbed in the back.

“What sort of animals do you have?” Fluttershy asked, holding her pet bunny, Angel.

“Gosh,” Violet exclaimed. “There are too many to count. I can tell you that none of them talk.”

“Are there dragons?” Spike asked. “We have komodo dragons, but they’re a type of giant lizard.”

“How big do they get?” Twilight asked.

Violet measured out the length of the lizard with her arms. “This long, and they have a very poisonous bite.”

The ponies gawked at her in shock, including Spike. “Do they breathe fire and eat gemstones?” he inquired.

Violet blinked. “You eat gemstones?”

“Yeah, they are delicious!” Glad he’s not a carnivore.

“Do have winter?” Pinkie Pie questioned. “How about spring and bouncy balls?”

“Uh…yeah.”

“What kind of food do you grow?” asked Applejack. “Any apples?”

“Sure!”

“Well, then you should come down to Sweet Apple Acres some time. We got the best apples in all of Equestria.”

“By the way, how did a sweet girl like you end up on the streets?” asked Pinkie Pie.

Violet gulped as all eyes were on her.

“Well I wasn’t always homeless, I had parents too at one point. I’m an only child so I basically grew up with my Mom and Dad, well mostly it was my Mom as Dad was away a lot.” Violet explained.

“What did your Dad do?” asked Fluttershy. “He was a soldier in the army, so I was raised by my mom. She was a perfume maker and I wanted to be just like her, so she taught me how to extract the essence out of flowers and add that to the mixture. She also taught me how to make beauty and spa treatments and we even invented a new type of moisturiser that makes you smell like a garden.”

She smiled as she remembered the time she had with her parents, her face fell at the next part of the story.

“But, when I was 11 years old. My father was killed in a war; my mom was like a zombie at the funeral, saying that she would never find another man like Dad. But she was always there for me.”

A single tear fell down Violets cheek onto the tablecloth, the ponies and Discord were staring at her with their mouths open.

“Then on my thirteenth birthday, my mom told me she was going to pick up my surprise birthday cake. I was left at home, I waited and waited, but she never returned. I called the police, but the trail went cold. I stayed in the house in case she came home, but she never did. After a few weeks, I still attended school, but as there was no one to pay my school fees I left. Then the landlord of the house came to me and kicked me out. I gathered up what little things I could carry and I ran away. For days I crossed the country, taking buses and hitchhiking from city to city. I then settled in the woods outside of a small town, made that wish and here I am?”

Fluttershy and her friends all shared the same sad look. They couldn’t believe how much this girl had been through.

“Oh Violet, we’re so sorry you had to live like that.” Fluttershy said, putting a hoof around her.

“Ya know sugarcube, I don’t have parents either. They died when I was seven, I was raised by my Grandma.” explained Applejack.

Rainbow Dash flew over to Violet’s side. “I don’t have a Mom either, she died in an accident when I was two. I was raised by my Dad, which could be the reason why I’m such a tomboy.”

The blue pegasus chuckled.

Violet looked up at the ponies. “I…I don’t know what to say. You’ve all been so nice to me.”

“Don’t mention it, Violet. We’re your friends, are we not.” said Twilight.

Violet blinked. “We’re really friends?” She felt like crying.

“Sure!” Violet was so happy that she pulled everyone into a group hug. Pinkie pulled away and started bouncing.

“Yippee! Can I start working on the Welcome Party yet?”

“Not so fast Pinkie, you know how the ponies are going to react when they see a human. The only way Violet will be able to move around is if she was…”

Twilight looked over at Violet, who was back in her T-shirt and jeans after Discord snapped them back. Violet seemed to read the princesses mind.

“Me? A pony? You can turn me into a pony?” she asked. “I can’t, but I know someone who can.” Twilight looked over at Discord, Violets eyes followed.

“Can you really turn me into a pony?” she asked.

“If that what you want.” said Discord.

Violet glanced at her reflection in the mirror, then at the other ponies. She threw her arms in the air. “What the hell! If it’s the only way I’m going to move around this place, I might as well.”

Discord beamed. “Splendid, now what would you like to be, a unicorn, a pegasus, an alicorn or a normal boring earth pony.”

“Hey!” cried Pinkie and Applejack.

Violet glanced around at the ponies. The idea of having a horn grow out of her head freaked her out a little, she then remembered her childhood dream of flying.

“A pegasus, since I always wanted to fly.” she said.

“Say no more!” Discord snapped his fingers and a light enveloped Violet. Violet shrieked as she felt a pain in her lower back, she was getting smaller and on all fours.

When the light died down the ponies gasped. “What?”

Violet turned around and saw what they were looking at.

“Oh. My. Gosh.”

I'm a Pony!!!

Her blonde hair and green eyes were the same, but her body was that of a pony. Her fur was a pale violet colour; she didn’t know why until she remembered it was the colour of her shirt.

She looked at her back and saw a pair of feathered wings and her long wavy tail was the same colour as her mane. “I’m a pegasus!” She started jumping around, until she spied something on her flank.

She screamed.

“What’s wrong?” asked Discord.

“You tattooed my butt!” shrieked Violet.

Everypony laughed. “That’s not a tattoo, that’s your cutie mark.”

“My cutie what?”

“A cutie mark, everypony gets a cutie mark when they realised they’re special talent.” Violet looked at the picture on her flank. It was a picture of a violet and a rose, next to a perfume spray bottle.

“Oh, that make sense. I always did love making perfumes.”

“According to that picture on your flank, making perfumes in yerr destiny.” Applejack explained.

This made Violet excited, but she was more intrigued by her new wings. She poked the soft feathers with her hoof.

“Does this mean I can fly now?”

“Not so fast, we still need to work on your backstory. You grew up in a city, right?” asked Twilight.

Violet nodded. “Well, I grew up in Manhattan- “

“Wait a minute, that sounds like the city Manehattan.” Rarity pointed out.

“Manehattan and I thought you ponies had no sense of humour.” Violet saw the confused looks on the ponies faces.

“Never mind; I can pretend I’m from Manehattan and I’ve come to Ponyville to...”

“Open a perfume shop!” Twilight finished. Violet blinked. “But I’m only fifteen, how can I start a business at this age. I’ll need a building, supplies and money! Where am I going to get money?” Violet cried out, figuring her $2 would be worthless in Equestria.

“We’ll sort something out for you and in Equestria, you finish school in Grade 6. So you’ll be able to live on your own and start your own business.” explained Twilight.

This made Violet feel a lot better. She flapped her wings a little.

“So about the flying, how do these babies work?” “Leave that to the best flyer in all Equestria.” said Rainbow Dash, proudly.

“Can I plan the Welcome Party now?!” cried Pinkie. Twilght nodded.

“Yippee! I have to bake a cake, plan the decorations and invite everypony in Ponyville. Give me until this evening.” The party pony zipped out the house faster than Violet thought. “Is she always this hyper?” she asked, heading outside into the garden.

“Are you kidding?! That’s her when she’s stressed.” said Rainbow. The ponies and Discord headed outside into Fluttershy’s garden. Discord snapped up a stand for him and the other ponies to sit on. Rainbow and Violet headed out into an open field.

“Ok, the first thing you need to do with flying is open your wings.” Rainbow demonstrated by opening her own. Violet tried to copy her but the rookie pegasus only managed to make the wings twitch.

From the stand, Discord was eating some popcorn, he gave Violet an encouraging look.

“Violet if you want to fly, you’ve got to have a clear head. What I normally do is I imagine myself touching the clouds. Try and focus on your main goal.” Rainbow explained. Violet closed her eyes and focused on her goal. I want to fly.

She opened her eyes and saw that her wings had opened. “This is so freaky!” she said, poking the feathers.

“Great, now I want to find yourself a target,” Her coach glanced around and spotted a cloud.

“See that cloud up there, I want you to imagine yourself flying up there, focus. Flying is not a way of thinking, it’s a feeling.”

Violet closed her eyes again and tried to imagine herself flying. She pictured the cool winds and the lightness of her body.

“That’s it! Keep going!” cried Rainbows voice. Violet opened her eyes and saw that she was at least a hundred feet off the ground.

“I’m flying! I’m really flying!” Violet flapped her wings more and spun around in a circle, her friends were cheering her on from below. Discord had even dressed himself up as a cheerleader, pompoms and everything.

Violet flew around in a loop the loop. Rainbow joined her in the air. “Not bad for a beginner. It’s almost as if you were born to fly.”

Violet started to pick up speed, she was in heaven, literally. Finally, she flew down to the ground and landed. Her friends cheered for her.

“You were amazing!” cried Fluttershy.

Violet grinned, Rainbow slapped her on back. “You really are something Violet, for a human.”

“Thanks, I don’t know about you but my wings are tired.”

“Yeah, they’ll be like that for a few days. Wings take some getting used to, why I too got my wings recently.” said Twilight. Violet looked at the princess.

“You mean you didn’t have wings before?”

“I was born a unicorn, until Princess Celestia made me her mentor to study the Magic of Friendship, after a few months she gave me these wings and made me a princess.” said Twilight. “You should meet her; we could take you.”

“Thanks but I think I would like to see Ponyville first, since I’m going to be living here.” said Violet.

“Very well, why don’t you go with Dashie, Rarity and AJ, Spike and I will me up with you at the party.” said Twilight. Violet glanced over at Fluttershy and Discord.

“What about you two?” Fluttershy gave Violet an apologetic look. “Sorry Violet, but we have to run some errands, we’ll see you at the party this evening.”

Violet followed the unicorn and country mare. The town of Ponyville looked like something from the 19th century. Only the houses and shops were cream coloured and brighter. The two locals led Violet over to a fancy looking building.

“Welcome to the Carousel Boutique, I’m the owner so I’ll be assisting you.” said Rarity in a posh tone. “You own this place?” exclaimed Violet.

“She sure does sugarcube, Rarity makes all the dresses sold here.” Applejack explained. Violet stepped into the building and gawked at all the dresses in front of her.

“You made all these dresses!” she said, pointing at Rarity.

“Absolutely darling, I’m even going to make you a dress to wear at the party tonight.” The unicorn said, levitating a tape measure over with her magic.

“You’re going to make me a dress? You really don’t have to, Rarity.” Violet blushed, she had never anyone offer her anything before.

“Nonsense darling, this is your Welcome Party, you need to look spectacular.” The fashionista chimed.

Violet shrugged and let the unicorn measure her. Rarity wrote the numbers down in a notepad. Violet glanced over at Rainbow Dash, who was reading a book.

“What book is that?” she asked.

“Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone, Limited Edition if I do say so myself.” Violet poked her head around at the words.

“I didn’t think you were the reading type?”

“Not as much as Twilight, she even lives in a library.” Rainbow inquired.

“Alright girls, this might take a while, so why don’t you go down the Applejacks place.” Rarity chimed. The cowgirl slapped herself.

“Darn it, you just reminded me that we have to go help with the apple bucking, its Zap Apple season. Wanna come Violet?”

“Sure, but what are Zap Apples?”

“You’ll see…” Applejack smirked.

Applejack led Violet and Rainbow Dash to her farm. “Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres, Violet.”

The human/pegasus gawked at the sight of the farmyard. A small farm house was on the right side of the yard, next to that was a chicken coop. On the other side of the farm was a wide vegetable patch and sitting in the centre of the yard was a big red barn. Violet looked beyond the yard and gasped at what she saw. She was looking at a vast never ending stretch of apple trees. Applejack pointed to a grove of trees, filled with rainbow coloured apples.

“Those are Zap Apples, all ripe and ready for pickin.” Violet turned her attention to a red pony kicking a tree. “Let me introduce you to ma family.” said Applejack. The country mare whistled and the red pony and a small yellow pony with a red mane came running.

“Applejack, your back!” cried the yellow pony, who was clearly a filly. The filly turned its head to Violet.

“Who are you?”

“Ya’ll, this is Violet-Rose. She’s here to start up a perfume shop. Violet this is my little sister Apple Bloom and my brother Big Macintosh."

“Well howdy do Violet-Rose.” said Apple Bloom, holding out her hoof. “It’s great to see somepony new once in a while. Where are ya from?”

Violet tried to contain her squeal. She so fricking adorable.

“Manehattan, and just Violet is fine.” Apple Bloom gasped.

“Manehattan! That were my cousin Babs lives, have ya ever met her, Babs Seed.” Violet shook her.

“No, I don’t know of any Babs Seed in town,” Violet then noticed her blank flank. “Hey, how come you don’t have a-”

”A cutie mark, haven’t got it yet, same with my friends. We’re the only ones in the class who don’t have one yet and they pick on us because of it, especially Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.”

Suddenly Violet understood, getting a cutie mark must be some kind of rite of passage. A sign of growing up, like losing your first baby tooth.

“You know your still young, you’ll get your cutie mark eventually.” Apple Bloom frowned.

“That’s what everypony says,” The filly glanced at Violet’s cutie mark.

“Hey, how did ya get yours?” Violet looked at the picture on her flank. She didn’t want to tell the filly that she got her cutie mark that day, but she figured that she got it when she helped her mother make the perfumes.

“Oh, well I was always into making perfumes as a child, my mother taught me most of it. We would grow the flowers ourselves in flower boxes, then we’d make them into perfume. She even taught me how to make bath bombs and herbal remedies. I guess somewhere along the way, this thing appeared.

“Wow! That’s an interesting story, whatever happened to ya Ma?”

Violets face fell. “She…she…she’s missing; I don’t know where she is.”

Apple Blooms ears drooped. “What about ya Pa? Where is he?”

“He’s dead…” Violet explained.

The filly’s jaw dropped. “How old are ya?”

“Fifteen, you?”

“Twelve, same as my friends.” Violets ears shot up when she heard a loud whistle, followed by Applejacks voice.

“Come on ya’’ll! Get over here before these apples disappear!”

Violet glanced over that the grove of Zap Apple trees, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Big Mac were already there.

“Race ya Violet, last one there’s a rotten apple core!” cried Apple Bloom, making a beeline for the trees. Violet giggled and ran after the filly. Apple Bloom was a fast runner for a twelve-year-old, Violet was also confused at the ages. In horse years twelve was equivalent to forty-three human years. Then it occurred to her that these weren’t normal ponies, so they must age like humans do. Violet made it over to the trees and stared confused at how they were going to pick the apples without hands.

“Um…AJ,” she asked. The southern pony looked up at Violet.

“What is it Violet?”

“Um…between you and me, how do you pick apples when you only have hooves?” Violet said the rest in a whisper. Applejack chuckled. “Like this!”

Applejack raised her back legs and kicked hard at the tree, the force from the kick sent all the apples falling into the baskets underneath.

“Wow! Yeah that’s seems a lot more natural for a pony.”

“Wanna give it a go?” Applejack asked. Violet blinked. “Um…okay?” The human/pegasus approached a tree filled with apples. She turned her back towards the trunk and kicked it with her back legs, however only half the apples fell into the baskets.

“Don’t worry sugarcube, you get the hang of it.”

“Thanks, but I think I’ll do it my way.”

Violet spread her wings and flew up into the branches, picking the apples with her hooves and tossing them down into the baskets. Violet poked her head out to the sound of two new voices coming up the path. Violet flew down to the ground and saw two other fillies, one was a white unicorn with a curly pink and purple mane and the other was an orange pegasus with a purple pixie cut. Apple Bloom beamed at the sight of the two fillies.

“Sweetie Belle! Scootaloo! You’re here! Come on, we have a new pony in town. Come meet her!” cried the yellow filly, dragging the other two over to Violet.

“Girls, this is Violet-Rose, she’s from Manehattan. Violet, these are my friends, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.” Violet thought she was going to end up dead and buried from their cuteness.

“Hi, you must be the pony my sister was telling me about. Rarity said she was making you a dress for the party tonight.” said Sweetie Belle.

“You’re Rarity’s sister?”

“Yeah, I live with her too, because Mom and Dad are away a lot, so Rarity got custody of me.” Violet stiffened when she heard her say ‘Mom and Dad’.

Sweetie Belle saw this. “What?”

Apple Bloom whispered in her friend’s ear. “Sweetie, she doesn’t have parents.”

“No its fine, I’ve kind of gotten over it.” Violet lied, she then saw the other two fillies had blank flanks too.

“Don’t have your cutie marks either?” Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo nodded.

“Yeah, that’s why we’re helping each other. We are the Cutie Mark Crusaders, The CMC!” The three fillies said proudly.

“Well I think that’s a great idea to join forces with each other. What do you CMC do?” asked Violet.

“We try new things to see what our special talents are,” Apple Bloom hung her head.

“But we’ve tried everything; taffy making, pig herding, mountain climbing, potion making, hair styling and still no cutie mark on either of us!” The filly explained.

Violet felt solemn for the fillies, they really had been trying hard earn they’re cutie mark. Her thoughts were interrupted by Applejacks voice.

“Come on ya’ll! Soups up everypony!”

Violet then noticed that they were still standing in the orchard, the adults had all gone inside. As if on cue, Violets stomach grumbled.

“What do ya think girls, ready for a spot of lunch?” she asked, sarcastically.

The CMC grinned and raced towards the farmhouse, Violet followed after them in flight. Inside the house, there was a sweet apply smell coming from the kitchen. Violet peered in and saw that Applejack had made some apple fritters and put out some bread and jam. The CMC were already sitting on chairs next to Big Mac and Rainbow Dash, so Violet sat on the opposite side of the table, Applejack smiled and served her a plate of steamy apple fritters.

“I made these from the apples we picked today, so they are nice and fresh.” Violet took a bite of a fritter, her eyes widened at the taste. “These taste like magic!”

Applejack blushed. “Well that’s a compliment I’ve never heard before, would ya like some whipped cream to go with it?”

Violets grin answered her question. Applejack served the CMC some fritters as well as her brother and friend.

“So Violet, how are ya liking Sweet Apple Acres?” she asked. Violet swallowed the cream topped fritter that had been in her mouth at the time.

“It’s great, so much better then boring old city life, are all your family in the apple business?”

“Yep, except for my Aunt and Uncle Orange, but they’re from the distant side of the family.” Applejack explained. Violet then reached for the jam jar and noticed that it was the same colour as Rainbow Dash’s mane.

“What kind of jam is this?” she asked.

“Zap Apple Jam! Try some, it’s delicious.” said Apple Bloom. Violet spread some jam on a slice of bread and bit into it. Her eyes widened at the taste and wonder of the jam.

“It’s like every fruit in the bowl, in a jar.” She shook the jam jar for emphasis.

After everyone had finished eating they all sat down in the living room, except Big Mac who had gone on a date with his girlfriend Cheerilee, who was also the local school teacher.

“Must be weird for your teacher to be dating your brother.” said Violet.

“At the start, yes. But then I got used to it.” explained Apple Bloom. Violet then saw an old guitar sitting in the corner.

“Hey, I used to play guitar,” she looked over at Applejack. “do you mind?”

Applejack beamed. “Not at all, just be careful with that old thing, it was our Ma's.”

Violet walked over and picked up the guitar, the CMC crowded around to hear her play. Violet sat down in the middle of the group and positioned the guitar and looked down at her hooves. Hooves! Oh no, she completely forgot that she wasn’t a human anymore, how was she going to play without fingers. She saw the keen looks on the fillies faces and sighed. She didn’t want to disappoint them, but she figured that the guitar was designed for hooves so she strummed a few cords. She then tuned the guitar slightly because it sounded like it hadn’t been played in years.

Violet then remembered a certain song she heard on the radio back in her old world, she figured she should play that to give the fillies more confidence. She strummed the first few chords to the song and began to sing.

Song 'Try Everthing' Shakira

When Violet strummed the final chord, everypony stomped their hooves in applause.

The CMC were awe struck, they had never heard anypony play that well. “That was amazing Violet,” cried Apple Bloom.

“I recon you just gave us a new idea to getting our cutie marks!” Violet set the guitar down and faced the fillies.

“I’m glad, what idea would that be?” she asked.

Apple Bloom grinned and faced her friends. “Guitar Playing!” The rest of the CMC screamed at a volume that could rival Godzilla’s howl.

“YAY! CUTIE MARK CRUSADER GUITAR PLAYERS!” Violet cringed at the volume, same as Applejack and Rainbow Dash.

“Alright ya’ll, quiet down now, your gonna wake up Granny Smith.” said Applejack. Violet couldn’t help but giggle a little. She was interrupted by an elderly groan and an old green pony with white hair tied up into a tight bun and an apple pie for a cutie mark came downstairs.

“What’s all the racket, I was trying to sleep.” she said in a country grandma accent. Apple Bloom shrank and her bow drooped.

“Sorry Granny, Violet just gave us an idea to getting our cutie marks and we got carried away…” said the red head filly. The old pony glanced around the room, until she spotted Violet and gasped.

“Posey?! Is that you? Ya gone and turned purple, and what did you do to your mane!”

“Granny, this is Violet-Rose she’s just moved here from Manehatten.” Applejack explained. The old pony sat down confused.

“But I recognize those eyes anywhere, I may be half blind but I’m not colour blind!” Applejack faced Violet with a sheepish look.

“Please excuse my Granny Smith, she gets a little confused in her old age.” She explained. Violet shook her head. “It’s fine AJ, it happens.”

“Can we go play Applejack?” Apple Bloom asked. “Sure, just don’t get hurt or lost and no running into the Everfree Forest.” said Applejack. The CMC jumped up and ran outside, taking the guitar with them.

“What should we do now, AJ?” Violet asked.

“Why don’t you and Rainbow go for a fly, ya know keep an eye on those silly fillies.” said Applejack. Rainbow Dash closed her book that she was reading.

“Sure AJ, come on Violet.” she said.

Violet followed the rainbow maned pony outside into the farmyard. In the distance they heard the sound of a guitar playing, but whoever was playing it was doing a terrible job.

“Guess playing guitar isn’t their special talent.” said Rainbow Dash.

“Special talent?” Violet questioned.

“Oh didn’t anypony tell you, a cutie mark not only shows your destiny, but also what your good at.” Rainbow explained. Violet glanced down at the perfume bottle on her flank.

“So, making perfumes is my special talent.”

“That is correct, just like my talent is fast flying. I hope to join the Wonderbolts sometime.”

Violet raised an eyebrow. “The what?”

“The Wonderbolts! They are the fastest, most daring, most extreme aerial show team in Equestria! I’ve been trying to get on their team for years.” Rainbow Dash explained.

Violet was about to answer when the CMC came up to them, each with a sad expression and a blank flank. “No luck?” asked Violet.

Apple Bloom shook her head and set the guitar down against the walls of the barn. “Well, at least you girls tried.”

“Violet’s right, you girls will get your marks soon.” said Rainbow Dash.

Violet glanced over at Scootaloo, the orange pegasus filly was staring up at the sky, watching the birds fly far. “Scootaloo, why are you staring up at the sky?” she asked.

Scootaloo turned her head around at the blonde maned pony. “I wish I could fly.” Violet blinked in surprise, then she noticed that the filly’s wings were tiny. Wings of that size would never get her off the ground.

“Oh, are your wings not ready yet?” she asked the filly.

“Yes, and there is nothing worse than a flightless pegasus.” Scootaloo pouted. Violet felt her heart break slightly, if there was one thing that made her sad it was seeing children cry or be sad. She put her arm around Scootaloo.

“Don’t worry Scoots, my mother always told me that ‘Good things come to those who wait.’ And even if you don’t learn to fly, you’ll still have your awesome scooter tricks.”

Scootaloo smiled. “Thank you Violet.”

Violet then spotted two blue birds on the fence, they looked like they were fighting about something. Violet didn’t know why, but she got up and walked over to them.

“Excuse me? What is going on here?” she asked, sternly.

The birds stared at her and Violet was shocked to hear them talk. “Gladys said that building nests out of sticks is old-school, but I think that building a nest of buffalo grass will make the nest stronger.” One of them said.

Violet raised an eyebrow. “Well, your both your own bird and you have different opinions. So what if Gladys says that sticks are old school. But maybe building a nest out of both will make the nest stronger than ever.” Violet said.
The birds looked at each other.

“You know, that’s a really good idea. Thank you Miss!” And they flew off into a nearby tree, leaving Violet stunned at what she just did.

“Since when can I talk to animals?!” she thought. She turned her head and saw that the two mares and three fillies were staring at her. Violet felt her face turn as red as a tomato.

“You can talk to animals?!” piped Apple Bloom.

“I thought only Fluttershy could do that.” said AJ.

“Yeah, how long have you been able to do that?!” asked Rainbow.

“I-I just found out…” stuttered Violet.

The five other ponies gapped at her, until Rainbow Dash spoke up.

“Suns going down, we gotta get back to the boutique.” Violet looked up at the sky and sure enough the sun was close to setting.

“Let’s go then. I can’t to see what my dress looks like.” Violet exclaimed.

A minute later Rarity was guiding a blindfolded Violet to the mannequin which had her party dress on it. Applejack and Rainbow Dash were there too, watching anxiously to see Violet’s reaction.

“Okay,” said Rarity.

“Now!”

The unicorn used her magic to yank the blindfold away from Violet’s eyes. Violet gawked at the dress in front of her. The skirt was a beautiful mint green, the bodice had the same colour only darker and the shoulder length sleeves were the same colour. Along the hem of the shirt and around the middle was a white ribbon, with mini violet roses sewn onto the dress.

“Rarity, it’s beautiful.” Violet murmured.

“Let’s get you in it then.” exclaimed Rarity. Behind the dressing curtain, Rarity was helping Violet into her new dress. The teenage girl twirled around in the dress for a bit before letting Rarity style her hair.

When Violet opened her eyes she saw that Rarity had tied her hair into a loose ponytail and let it hang freely over her left shoulder and Rarity had placed a single white rose behind her left ear.

“Rarity, it’s beautiful.” she uttered.

“Your beautiful, I only made you better.” said Rarity. A voice called from outside the curtain.

“You girls finished in there! We are waiting.” called Rainbow Dash.

“One second!” Rarity chimed. Using her magic, the unicorn pulled the curtain back, revealing Violet. The two tomboy ponies gapped at her.

“Violet, you look beautiful.” Applejack exclaimed. Violet blushed.

“Come on, let’s get to this party!” cried Rainbow Dash.

Author's Note

I used the song 'Try Everything' because it fits the CMC so well and I loved how they are willing to do anything to earn they're cutie marks.

'Try Everything' belongs to Shakira

Pinkie Party

Within minutes, they were at Sugar Cube Corner. Strangely, the lights were off.
Violet cautiously opened the door. The purple pony got the shock of her life when the lights turned on, revealing the room to be filled with several ponies and balloons.

“SURPRISE!” cried Pinkie.

Violet raised an eyebrow. “Surprise? You invited me here.” Pinkie didn’t listen and yanked her over to the group of ponies.

“Violet this is; Lyra, Bon Bon, Caramel, Mr Cake, Mrs Cake, Pound Cake, Pumpkin Cake, Doctor Hooves, Derpy, Mayor Mare, Vinyl Scratch, Octavia…” She was cut off when Applejack called out.

“That’s enough Pinkie you’re going to make her dizzy.” Violet shot her look of thanks as the party pony let go of her hoof.

Violet wasn’t sure what to do exactly. She was in a room filled with different kinds of ponies. She didn’t need to worry as Pinkie Pie yanked her over to a Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony game. Before Violet realised what was happening, she was blindfolded and spun around.

When she stopped spinning, Violet could hear several voices cheering her on. ‘Aren’t these ponies a little too old for this game?’ she wondered. Violet shrugged and place the tail on the board. Violet could hear the ponies laughing. She pulled her blindfold off and saw that she had placed the tail on the pony’s nose. Violet started laughing at her silly mistake. The DJ, Vinyl Scratch had started to play music on her beatbox.

“Oooh, I love this song! Dance off!” cried Pinkie. She then yanked Violet over to the dance floor. Several ponies had started to dance. Violet didn’t want to just stand there awkwardly so she started to dance. Eventually she didn’t care if she was being watched and had lost herself in the groove. “Hey, nice moves Violet.” said a familiar voice. Violet stopped dancing and turned around to see Discord and Fluttershy standing there.

“Hey Discord, when did you get here?” The draconequus pulled out a pocket watch with squiggly hands.

“Just now,” he said. He then saw the dress she was wearing. “Hey, nice dress Violet. Curtesy of Rarity I presume.”

Violet nodded.

“You look beautiful Violet.” said Fluttershy.

Violet blushed. “Thanks, now are we just going to stand here or are we going to party!” The violet pegasus started dancing once more and motioned for Fluttershy and Discord to join her. The pair shrugged and started dancing with Violet. The rest of the party went great. In the middle of dancing, Violet approached by a yellow stallion with a brown mane.

“Oh hey, Caramel isn’t it?” she asked, trying to remember the stallions name.

“Yes, your Violet right?” Violet nodded.

“Um, Violet. I was wondering if you would like to dance?” said Caramel. Violet blinked in shock. She didn’t know exactly how to tackle the situation.

“I-um, maybe later.” she blurted out. Caramel’s face fell slightly.

“I understand, you’re new in town. Enjoy the party.” The stallion then walked away, leaving Violet stunned.

“I see you have attracted a few males.” said a voice.

Violet jumped but calmed down when she saw Rarity. “Yeah, I don’t know why though. Boys never hit on me when I was human and now I’m suddenly the prettiest girl in the building.” Violet explained.

“I’m not at all surprised darling. By pony standards you aren’t unattractive,” The unicorn inquired. “The least you could do is dance with a few of them.”

“There not even my species!”

“Yes they are, Discord made you into a pony, therefore you are just as every bit of pony as they are.” Rarity explained.

Violet rolled her eyes. She started looking around the room, until she spotted someone. There was a stallion breakdancing. He was wearing a navy blue leather jacket, but he was a pegasus. His coat was golden yellow and his mane was a vibrant blue. When Violet saw the stallion’s eyes, which were an icy blue, she felt her heart start beating faster and her mouth dropped.

“Who…is…that?” she asked.

“Oh that’s Comet Blitz, he’s one of the local weather ponies.” said Rarity. The unicorn then saw the exasperated look on Violets face and giggled.

“Looks like somepony has taken a liking to him, huh?” Violet slowly nodded. Rarity glanced over and saw that Comet Blitz had spotted Violet and winked at her. Violet blushed when she saw this.

“It looks like Comet has got his eye on you too. Go and ask him to dance.” Violet shot Rarity a look of shock.

“I can’t! What if I mess up?!”

“Violet, wake up and smell the roses, no pun intended. You won’t mess up, just go. Before somepony else asks him.” Rarity nudged Violet in the direction of the stallion.

Violet was still weak in the knees, but awkwardly walked over to the stallion. “Hi…my names Violet,” she began.
Comet Blitz gave her a friendly smile. “Violet, that’s a pretty name, my names Comet Blitz.” Violet thought she could melt at the sound of his voice. “A pretty name for a pretty mare.”

Violet blushed and rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly. “Um…Comet, would you…like to dance?” Violet asked. Comet smiled at her before kissing her hoof, sending shivers down Violets spine.

“It would be my pleasure, Miss Violet.” As the two ponies made their way over to the dance floor, they passed by Rarity who gave Violet the pony equivalent of a thumbs up. Vinyl Scratch also saw this and put on a slow dance. Ponies all around were starting to grab partners and leading them to the dance floor. Somewhere in the crowd, Fluttershy was talking to Discord when the slow music played. Discord glanced at Fluttershy and gulped. ‘This is awkward, where’s Violet when you need her?!’ he thought. He looked around frantically until he spotted Violet, dancing with a stallion.

He shot Violet a ‘help me’ look. To his luck Violet spotted him and read his mind. She tilted her head in the direction of Fluttershy and gave him an encouraging smile. Discord gulped and turned around to Fluttershy.

“Uh…Fluttershy,” he started. The pegasus looked up at him, her teal eyes met his red and yellow ones.

“Yes, Discord?” she said. Discord rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.

“Um…you...uh…wanna dance?” he said, holding out his paw. Fluttershy gave him a small smile.

“Sure.”

Discord felt that he would melt at the feel of her touch as he led her into a slow waltz. But due to her small size, he picked her up as if she was a child and swayed her to the rhythm.

Comet was also leading Violet into a waltz, the disguised human caught a glimpse of Fluttershy and Discord dancing. Violet mentally grinned at the sight.

Comet surprised her by dipping her. “Where are you from?” he asked.

“Manehatten.” Violet replied. Comet then swayed her around for a few more minutes, asking Violet questions about herself.

“So you’re a perfume maker?”

“That is what I came to Ponyville for.” said Violet.

“You know Violet; you seem like a cool mare. Wanna catch up, you know get to know each other more?” asked Comet.

Violet blushed. “Sure.” she said.

Comet grinned. “Great, how about Friday 10 o’clock?”

“I’ll check with my roommates.” said Violet.

“Oh, they wouldn’t happen to be Fluttershy and that Discord fellow, would they?”

Violet stopped dancing and gawked at the stallion.

“How did you…”

“I saw you talking to them,”

Violet shrank slightly. “You probably think I’m a weirdo for living with Discord.”

Comet blinked at her, then started laughing. “No no no, I think that having the Lord of Chaos and the Element of Kindness as roommates is the best thing ever. Sure Discord did horrible things in the past, but that was a thousand years ago. And the chocolate rain is the best. Could you tell him I said that?” he asked.

Violet chuckled. “Will do, so Friday right?”

“Friday, pick you up at your place.” “Do you know where it is?” “Course I do, it’s that cottage by the Everfree Forest.”

Violet smiled, said her goodbyes and went to look for her roommates. She found the two still waltzing. Violet tapped Discord on the shoulder.

“Should we go home down, everypony’s leaving.”

She was right, at least half the guests had gone home.

“Sure, come on Flutterbuddy, let’s go home.” he said.

Dating Advice

Back home, Violet had gotten out of her party dress and was taking a shower. She didn’t notice that she had started singing.

Wise men said,
Only fools rush in,
But I can’t help,
Falling in love with you…

This went on for her entire shower. When she exited the bathroom, her mane wrapped in a towel. She heard someone speak. “Nice singing.”

Violet squealed when she saw Discord standing in the hall and felt her face go bright red. “How much did you hear?”

“Every single word,” The draconequus started clapping his hands. “Encore by the way, my dear. Sure your talent is perfume making and not singing?”

Violet glanced down at her cutie mark. “Pretty sure.”

The pegasus picked up her dress and hung it up in the closet.

“So why were you singing?” asked Discord.

Violet gulped slightly. “Um…no reason!” she squeaked, tossing the towel in the washing basket.

“Don’t pull that trick on me, I invented tricks,” said Discord. “I also saw you with a stallion.”

Violet felt sweat beading down her forehead. “Okay, fine! I met a boy and…I think I like him.”

“Called it, your acting like I do when I’m around Fluttershy.”

Violet then remembered something. “Yeah, about that. I saw you dancing with her and you didn’t even need my help.”

Discord chuckled. “You gave me a little help.” He measured about a centimetre between his thumb and forefinger.

Violet shook her head. “Nope, that was all you, Discord. I’m very proud of you as well.” She gave him a pat on the back.

“I guess I did?” said Discord, feeling really proud of himself. Violet let out a yawn. “I’m off to bed, it’s been a long day.”

“Okay,” Discord then snapped up a mug of warm milk for Violet.

“Here, goodnight Violet.” Violet took the milk and closed the door to her and Fluttershy’s room.

“Night Discord.”

Violet woke to the sound of birds tweeting. She saw that Fluttershy was still asleep and quietly walked out into the bathroom. She could hear Discord snoring away downstairs. After a quick shower Violet wrapped her scarf around her neck and walked downstairs to make some breakfast. She found some leftover pancakes in the fridge and helped herself to three.

After eating she decided that she would see if her cutie mark was right and make a pot of perfume. She tiptoed past Discord, who had his head over the edge of the couch and was snoring loudly. Violet walked out into Fluttershy’s beautiful garden. The sun cast a beautiful glow on the horizon. She started looking around at all the flowers, as well as sniffing them, trying to find the flowers that had the strongest scent. With careful consideration she picked 10 sweet smelling flowers and carried them back into the house.

Careful not to wake Discord or Fluttershy she went into the kitchen and got out a small saucepan. Filling half the saucepan with water, she placed it on the stove to boil. While the water was boiling, Violet started to prepare the petals and tried to extract as much of the scent as she could. It surprised her how she managed to do such a thing with hooves.

When the water had boiled, Violet added the petals to the water, placed the lid over the pot and turned down the heat slightly. Now all she had to do was wait. She used that time to clean up the flower steams and pollen. Violet’s ears picked up on someone groaning. She turned around and saw that Discord was still sleeping. Violet smiled and thought that she should have a little fun. She opened the fridge and got out a bottle of ice water. Snickering she filled up a small cup with the cold water and even added a few ice cubes from the freezer. Holding the cup in her hooves, she fluttered over to the sleeping draconequus. When Discord rolled over so Violet had a clear view of his face, she dumped the water on his head. Discord shrieked as the cold hit him. The ice cubes slid down his back and stomach, causing him to shiver. The shock of the cold, caused Discord to fall off the couch and land with a thud.

“W-what the hay?!” he said, rubbing his temple. Violet was laughed like a maniac at the dumbfounded draconequus.

“Violet!” he yelled. The pegasus continued to laugh, clutching her belly and rolling around on the floor.

Discord growled in anger and cold. He snapped up a towel to dry himself. “What was that for?” he demanded, drying his fur. Violet managed to choke out some words.

“Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. By the way you snore like a fog horn.” Discord glared at Violet.

“What’s going on down here?” called a third voice. Within two seconds, Fluttershy came down stairs and was greeted by a soaking wet and cold Discord, plus a laughing Violet.

“What happened here?” she asked.

“Violet dumped a cup of ice water on my head when I was sleeping.” Discord explained, with a pout. Fluttershy glared at Violet.

“Violet, that wasn’t very nice, say sorry to Discord.”

“Sorry Discord, but you have to admit I got you good.” Discord rolled his eyes.

“Yeah, yeah, you got me,” he muttered, drying out his ears. “and I suppose I do sound like a fog horn.”

This made the three roommates laugh. Fluttershy went out to feed her animals, while Discord was eating his usual breakfast of chocolate milk and a bowl of paper. Violet checked on how her perfume was doing.

“What are you making Violet?” asked Discord.

“Perfume,” she replied. Violet lifted the lid off the pan, letting a sweet flowery aroma into the room. Discord breathed in the scent. “Smells nice.”

“Thanks, I think it’s ready now.” Violet said. Violet turned the heat off, she cooled the mixture down with some cold water and set it to rest with the lid over the top. The petals had fully dissolved into the mix and the water was now a grape juice colour. Violet then realised that she didn’t have any perfume bottles.

“Discord, could you whip up some perfume spray bottles?”

“Sure.” Discord snapped his fingers and several perfume bottles appeared. Violet gave him a warm smile and filled a bottle with the mixture and screwed the cap back on. Violet sprayed some of the stuff on herself and took a whiff of it.

“Perfect! I think I should give some to the girls.” She started to fill the other bottles with the perfume. Discord just stood there and watched. “Violet?”

“Yes Discord,”

“Um…are you still going to help we win over Fluttershy?”

Violet gave him a blank look. “Course I am.”

Discord breathed a sigh of relief. “Great, because I still have no clue on what dating is like.”

Violet put the bottles of perfume on the counter and faced him. “Discord, give me some chalk and a chalkboard and then I’ll explain it to you.”

Discord snapped up what she wanted and watched as Violet drew what looked like stairs with fifteen steps. She then pointed to the first step.

“Okay, right now you’re at Tier 1, which is hugging but pretty soon you’ll be at Tier 2, which is kissing,” Discord blushed as a fantasy of him and Fluttershy appeared in his head.

“Now, dating isn’t going to be a smooth boat ride. It’s more of a wild rollercoaster ride. Now, after kissing, you’ll be at Tier 5, which is going out on small dates. Then you’ll be all the way up to Tier 10, which is when you’ll be sharing a bed.”

Discord innocently pointed to the fifteenth and final stage. “What about Tier 15?” His question had a shocking reaction as Violet shoved a hoof in his face and gave him a look that he could match up to Fluttershy’s ‘Stare’.

“You stay away from that!” snapped Violet.

Discord blinked in confusion.

“DO. NOT. DO. TIER 15!”

“Violet I have no idea what you’re saying.”

Violet set the chalk down and faced him.

“Okay, let’s think this through. Remember what I told about being a gentleman towards her?” Discord just gave her a simple nod.

“Good, cause that what we are going to be working on. Now I’ll pretend to be Fluttershy so you can practice pickup lines and complements.”

“But you look nothing like Fluttershy.” Discord protested.

“Just pretend I’m Fluttershy, come on use your imagination.”

“Nah, not good enough.”

Before Violet could say something, Discord snapped his fingers and a green light enveloped Violet. When the light died down, Violet looked down at her hooves, but they weren’t violet anymore, they were yellow.

“You did not just do what I think you did!” she exclaimed. Violet looked at her hair and saw that it was a cotton candy pink. “You did! You turned me into Fluttershy!”

“Guilty as charged, now tell me what I need to do.” Discord demanded. Violet shrugged and faced him.

“Okay then, now that I’m Fluttershy, speak to me. What would you say?” Discord bit his lip in nervousness.

“Um...beautiful day isn’t it Fluttershy?” he said with a shaking voice.

“That’s great, now I reply,” Violet cleared her throat to make herself sound like Fluttershy.

“Yes Discord, it is a beautiful day.”

“Yeah, lovely clear skies.”

Violet clapped her hooves, before regaining character.

“Fluttershy, has anypony told you that you have…beautiful eyes?” said Discord.

“Thank you! You have beautiful eyes too!” said Violet.

“Really? I didn’t think you liked my eyes.”

Violet waved her hooves in a stop motion.

“Alright, time out! You can’t talk too much about yourself. She’ll think your more in love with yourself, than you are with her. It’s okay to talk about yourself once in a while, but be modest about it. Try that last reply again.” Discord rubbed his hands together awkwardly.

“Oh, okay. Thank you for the lovely compliment, my dear.”

Violet was surprised at how cooperative he was being. “Good. How about we work on confessing your feelings now?”

Discord gulped. “Okay. How?”

Violet rubbed her chin. “Let’s see…ooh! Flowers!”

Discord smacked his forehead. “Of course! I can do that!” A bouquet of red and yellow tulips appeared in his paw.

“She likes tulips,” he explained. He held them out to Violet, but as she sniffed them, water squirted in her face.

“Oi!” she shrieked.

“Sorry, I just had to get you back for that stunt you pulled on me earlier.” He snapped his fingers. “They’re fine now.”

Violet cautiously took the bouquet in her hoof. “Thank you, Discord. They’re beautiful.”

“Yes, well…nothing compared to you.”

“Good,” she whispered. “Are you saying I’m beautiful?”

“Beautiful won’t begin!”

“Good, good! Now take my hands, err, hooves! Geez, I keep forgetting I’m a horse.”

Discord did as he was instructed.

“What do I do now?!”

“Look into my eyes and tell me what you really feel,” Violet said, calmly. “Or, if you’re not ready for that, simply ask her out.”

He gulped again. “Fluttershy, I…I think…I think you’re the most incredible pony I’ve ever met and…I know we’re friends, but…I want us to be more.”

“Yes?” Violet urged.

“Fluttershy, will you…that is, if you want to…?”

“Yes?”

“Will you be…my very special some pony?” Oh is that what they say?

“I would love to, Discord!”

“Really?”

He scooped her up into a hug. “Oh, you have made me so happy! I could kiss you!”

“Whoa there!” Violet screamed. “I’m not really Fluttershy, remember?”

“Oh.” His cheeks turned red as he set her down.

“Right. So…how was that?”

“Brilliant! Now all you have to do is replicate it with the real Fluttershy, but this time, it should be in a romantic setting-"

She was cut off when Twilight and the others came running into the house, with Fluttershy behind them. Startled, Discord snapped Violet back into her pony self, just in time.

“Violet! Discord! Guess what just came in the mail?!” cried Twilight.

“What came in the mail?” Violet asked, confused. The alicorn used her magic to hold up eight tickets. They looked like train tickets.

“Tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala!”

“The what now?!” Violet asked, extremely confused.

Twilight smacked herself in the head, forgetting that Violet was new to Equestria.

“Okay, Violet let’s all sit down and we’ll explain.”

The seven ponies and Discord sat in the living room. Discord had snapped up some tea and cakes for them to snack on. “Violet, the Grand Galloping Gala is a social event for high class ponies and royalty. And since we are bearers of the Elements of Harmony, plus the friends of a princess. We have all been invited by Princess Celestia. In fact, in my last letter. I told her about you, she is very eager to meet you.” Twilight explained.

Violet nearly choked on her tea. “The princess wants to meet…me!”

“Yeah, she has heard about humans before and wants to learn more about them.” Violet felt honoured that the ruler of Equestria wanted to meet her. She was going to meet royalty.

“I…I don’t know what to say.”

“Darling, an event like the Grand Galloping Gala is such an honour to attend. And since this is your first gala, you must look spectacular!” Rarity chimed.

Something clicked in Violet’s mind. “Oh! I forgot!”

She jumped off the couch and flew back into the kitchen. She returned carrying the perfume bottles in her front hooves. She set them down next to the cakes and handed a bottle to each pony.

“Smell,” she urged. Rarity sprayed a generous amount on her face and took a whiff.

“Darling! Did you make this?”

“Sure did.”

“Girls don’t just sit there, try it!” Twilight sprayed a little on her hoof and sniffed.

“Mmm, smells good. What flowers did you use?”

Violet grinned. “Violets and Roses!”

“Duh!” Discord said.

The ponies all laughed at his sense of humour.

“Wait a minute,” said Fluttershy. “Where did you get the flowers?”

Violet cringed slightly. “Don’t kill me, but I may have…taken them from…your garden.”

Fluttershy put a kind hoof on her shoulder. “No pony’s going to kill you, just remember to ask me next time, okay,”

Violet smiled in relief.

“Also this smells lovely.” Fluttershy added.

“Hey! I have an idea, we could all wear Violet’s perfume to the Gala!” cried Pinkie.

“Yeah…I’ll pass; I’m not a perfume girl.” Rainbow explained.

“It’s not just flowers I make perfume from, I make perfume from all sorts of smells. Maybe I could make a perfume to match each of our personalities.” said Violet.

“That sounds like a great idea.” Applejack beamed.

“I’ll of course make the dresses and suit for you Discord,” Rarity chimed. “Oh and we could also bring dates!”

Everypony started talked about who they would bring. Violet glanced over at Discord, who was clearly sweating. Perfect! This is exactly what he needs. Then she thought about Comet Blitz. Her teenage heart started beating wildly with emotion. ‘I could ask Comet to be my date, we are meeting up tomorrow anyway.’ she thought.

While Twilight and the others were busy talking, Violet nudged Discord in the side. “Can I talk to you in private?” she whispered.

“Sure.” he whispered back.

The two stepped outside to talk. “Did you hear that? You could ask Fluttershy to be your date for the Gala. This is the perfect chance! Picture this; you are waiting at the bottom of the steps. Then out of nowhere, you see her standing there wearing a beautiful ball gown. She anxiously walks down to you, while you are wearing a black tux. You take her by the hoof and lead her to a slow dance,” Her words of description made Discord’s heart beat faster as he pictured the scene in his head. “After a dance, you lead her out into the gardens, only lit up by the full moon. There under a willow tree, you confess your love. It’s perfect!”

Violet looked at Discord, who was in a trance. Violet giggled and clapped her hooves in front of his face, taking him out of his trance.

“She was about to kiss me too.” he pouted.

“Get your head out of the clouds and that fantasy will become a reality.” Violet said, trying to stifle a laugh.

Discord didn’t say anything to her as they walked back inside. The other six ponies were still talking. Twilight saw Violet and Discord sit back down on the couch.

“Oh Violet…the girls want to know if you want to come to the spa with us? You know, for some girl time.” Violet looked back at Discord. He gave her a nod to accept.

“Sure! I’d love to Twilight.” she said, with a smile. “You girls go have fun, I’ll just be here chilling.” said Discord, shoving the ponies out the door.

The six local ponies lead Violet to the towns spa. They introduced Violet to the three spa ponies; Aloe, Vera and Lotus. The triplet employees treated the seven friends to a relaxing rendezvous of spa goodness.

“I’ve never been to a spa before.” Violet said, her mane wrapped in a towel and her face covered with face mask.

“Well then you have never lived, darling!” Rarity called from the chair next to her. Aloe was placing two cucumber slices over the unicorn’s eyes.

Violet got up from her chair and climbed into the herbal bath to join; Twilight, Fluttershy and Pinkie. She breathed out in relief as the warmth of the bath water relaxed her sore calf muscles. She slowly flapped her wings in a smooth motion, causing ripples to start in the water. Lotus came over to remove the face mask and Violet felt a chill hit her face.

“Gotta say girls, this is an amazing experience. I should have done this sooner.” she sighed.

“It’s good that your enjoying your new life here.” Twilight said.

“You bet! Country life beats City life any day!”

“So…how are you coping with Discord? I noticed that you two seem to be getting along better than I originally thought.” Fluttershy explained.

“Oh he’s amazing! In fact, he told me that I’m special and that I’m not a worthless nobody like I originally thought.”

“Discord said that!” Rainbow cried from the massage table.

The other ponies stared at Violet with stunned expressions, Fluttershy had a look of mixed happiness and jealousy.

“You two aren’t…an item are you?” she asked, with a forceful grin.

“No! We’re just friends,” Violet watched as she saw Fluttershy breathe a sigh of relief.

“Besides, I’ve got my eye on another boy.” That got the other ponies attention again.

“Really!? You’ve only been here for two days and already you have got your eye on a stallion?!” Applejack said, surprised at how well Violet had accustomed to her new life.

The other ponies all shared the same feeling. “Who is it?!” cried Pinkie, popping out from under water.

“Comet Blitz, one of the local weather ponies.” Rarity explained.

“Yeah, we met at that welcome party.” said Violet with a blush.

“Violet,” Twilight began. The purple pegasus turned to look at the princess. “I have noticed how well you seem to be reacting to this new life, I mean it almost seems like it’s natural for you. Think about it; you aced Rainbow’s flying lessons, you’ve gotten used to using your hooves and your mouth and according to Rainbow and Applejack you can talk to animals, just like Fluttershy.” she explained.

The other ponies nodded in agreement. “Ya know Violet, you seem to represent Fluttershy a lot. Your kind, you have a similar hair style, you can talk to animals and you grow flowers.” said Applejack in wonder.

Twilight squinted at the two pegasi. “You’re right AJ, I think I do see a resemblance. How weird?”

“But we’re not even the same colour. Besides, I used to be…human.” Violet said the rest in whisper, so the spa ponies wouldn’t hear.

“I know, but the resemblance is uncanny. You two like to same things, sound the same and hardly even fly.” Twilight argued.

“I’m sure it’s just a massive coincidence.” Violet said, brushing it off as nothing.

The princess shrugged and went back to relaxing in the spa. An hour had passed when the ponies left the spa, fully relaxed. The friends went their separate ways, while Fluttershy and Violet walked home together.

“Violet, about what Twilight said. I think she’s right, we do have similar likes and dislikes.” Violet blinked at Fluttershy.

“It’s probably nothing, Flutters. I mean, what are the odds of us being this alike. I mean, it’s not like we’re related or something.” When the two mares walked through the doors, they saw Discord lying back on the couch bouncing a ball on the wall.

“Bout time you girls came home; I was just about to call the cops on you.” he said, with a smile. Violet rolled her eyes.

That night, Violet was lying awake in bed. Looking at the ceiling, she couldn’t shake off what Twilight said. Then it hit her. She did resemble Fluttershy in a way; it made sense. They liked the same things, but that could have been a simple coincidence. Then again…

She had been wondering why she had gotten used to her new life so quickly. She had only been living in Equestria for two days, soon to be three. She had also wondered why she was so acceptant to Fluttershy’s offer. Shouldn’t she had been scared and thinking that decision over. Then she remembered how safe and familiar she felt when she was near Fluttershy. Her gut instinct told her that she somehow knew Fluttershy. Looking back on her life as a human, she always felt like she didn’t belong but in Equestria she felt at home.

Dreams and Dates

Violet realised she must have drifted off because she found herself back at her old house. Her mother was standing there in her favourite green dress. Her strawberry blonde hair was up in a ponytail and her green eyes sparkled. Daphne held out her arms for a hug. Violet ran straight into her mother’s warm embrace, breathing in her scent.
“Mom, why did you leave me?” she asked.

“I had to, sweetheart. They needed me.”

“Who needed you Mom?” Violet asked, confused.

“I can’t tell you.” Daphne said.

“Why not?!” Violet demanded.

“I’m sorry Violet, but I have to go now-"

Her mother then had a look of sheer terror on her face.

“Violet! You have to hide! She’s coming! She knows you’re here!” She then started to fade away. Violet panicked and tried to grab her mother.

“Who’s coming?! Mom! MOM!”

Violet jolted awake, drenched in cold sweat. ‘It was just a dream, but it didn’t feel like a dream.’ she thought. Violet glanced over at Fluttershy’s bed, it was empty. She then looked at the clock on the wall. It was 9:55 on a Friday. Her blood ran cold when she realised that she was meeting up with Comet that day.

“AHHH!” she cried, throwing off the covers and out of bed. She ran straight into the bathroom and brushed her hair. She liked to leave it down, so she let her mane flow over her right shoulder. Still panicked she flew down the stairs, startling her roommates. Discord nearly choked on his cotton candy.

“Geez Violet, what’s wrong?” he coughed.

“I slept in, Comet’s going to be here any minute now.” she blurted out. Fluttershy came running inside. “I flew all the way here from Harry’s cave, somepony had better be bleeding!” she said, flustered.

“Sorry Flutters, I’ve got a date in five minutes.” Violet explained.

The purple pegasus grabbed some toast and jam and stuffed the food down her throat. Fluttershy and Discord just watched her with looks of confusion.

“Who’s your date?” Discord asked.

“His names Comet Blitz and he thinks that your chocolate rain is the best.”

Discord raised an eyebrow. “Really?”

He didn’t get an answer when there was a knock on the door. “That’s him!”

Violet zipped over to the door and opened the door.

“Hey Violet, ready to go?” asked Comet Blitz.

“Ready as I’ll ever be.” Violet said, blushing.

“Come on I got an entire day planned for us.” The two pegasi walked down the path, leaving Fluttershy and Discord behind.

Comet led Violet to the towns park. It was a pretty public place and dozens of ponies were there. They sat down under a tall oak tree, giving each other the first date interview. “Age?”

“Eighteen, you?”

“Fifteen. That’s at least a three-year age difference.” said Violet, relieved that she wasn’t on a date with a guy in his late twenties.

“Okay, how about this? You already know I plan to start a perfume business, what do you do for a living?”

Comet chuckled. “I work in the weather factory. I’m one of the ponies who specialise in making rainbows?”

Violet raised an eyebrow. “You make rainbows? How are the rainbows made?” she asked, wondering if the rainbows were made the same way as they were made in her old world.

“Well, since all weather is controlled by us pegasi, it’s a weather pony’s job to make it rain, snow and make the rainbows. What we do is; in the factory we have this machine that sprinkles tiny droplets of water on this roller. Then it goes into this solar powered room where light from the sun hits the watered roller and the reflection makes a beautiful rainbow. Then the weather ponies let the rainbow out through a little trapdoor in the roof and poof! You have a rainbow. But this process causes a lot of excess rainbow. That just gets used as decoration or dyes for material. I wouldn’t recommend eating it though, it makes your face flash rainbow colours.”

Violet sat there, her mouth agape. “Wow, you really put a lot of effort into making rainbows.”

“Of course, it’s practically an art. Rainbows are a beautiful thing, but I think I found something that is more beautiful than all the rainbows put together. You.” Comet caressed her cheek for emphasis.

Violet giggled and brushed his hoof away. “Stop it,” she said with a blush.

“Stop what?” Comet smirked, poking her playfully.

Violet laughed. “Okay, how bout we go somewhere else?”

“Sure, how bout I show you the factory?” Violet gave him a kind smile and nodded.

The two ponies got up and took to the skies. Violet struggled to keep up, Comet had obviously had a lot more experience with flying. Luckily he saw her struggling and slowed down.

“You don’t get out much do you?”

Violet shook her head.

“Here, let me help.” He held onto her hoof and started to fly faster. Violet clung onto the stallion as she watched the ground get smaller and smaller. She finally had the guts to look up. Her eyes met the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. An entire city was perched on a clouds, in fact everything was made of cloud. The buildings, the pillars and the road signs. The city reminded Violet of Mt Olympus from Greek Mythology. It had a very peaceful and heavenly atmosphere. Violet did feel like she was in heaven.

“Welcome to Cloudstale.” said Comet. Violet rolled her eyes at that predictable pun. When they landed, Violet realised that she was standing on the cloud.

‘Woah? I guess pegasi can walk on clouds’ she thought.

“Come on, the factory is the highlight of the city.” Comet led Violet up to a beautiful building, overlooking the city.
It was clearly the Rainbow Factory; rivers of colour were pouring from small openings in the walls. Employees were dressed in a white safety suit and cap. Of course they were pegasi, Violet quickly worked out. Violet followed her date into the building. She took in at the interior of the lobby.

Nearly everything was made from clouds, but there were also rainbow banners hangings on the walls. They stopped at the reception desk, were a very tired pegasus mare was sitting.

“Ms. Snow, I need two visitor sashes. I’m giving Violet a personal tour of the factory.” Comet explained to the receptionist. Ms. Snow was a stern looking pegasus, the kind of pony who rarely smiled. She was a cold white and had greyish-green hair tied into a tight bun. Her cold eyes were hidden by half-moon spectacles.

The sight of this mare gave Violet the creeps. Without a word Ms. Snow handed the visitor sashes to Comet with a blank expression.

“Thanks.” said Comet, forcing a smile. After Violet placed her sash over her scarf she quickly followed Comet through a door, relieved to be away from that cold staring mare.

The door led to a hallway with a bunch of rooms. Each door to a room had a label to show what room it was. Comet opened a door full of water and clouds.

“This is where we make rain clouds. The boss has planned a rainy day in two weeks, so we need to make as many rainclouds as possible if we are to cover the entire Ponyville area. Violet watched as ponies filled up clouds with water and piled them into a room. The water was coming from a giant tank. “That there is the main water source for the factory, we can’t do our job without it.”

“Wow, they really are putting a lot of work into making rainclouds.” Violet said in wonder.

“Come on, there’s more.” Comet showed Violet out and led her down the hall. Violet’s eyes grew wider with wonder at all the weather rooms. Finally, they came to a rainbow coloured door.

“This is where I work.” Comet pushed open the door and Violet’s mouth fell open at the sight of the rainbow room. There were several sprinklers hanging from the ceiling and rubber rollers were moving along underneath. Ponies were controlling the sprinklers, letting a mist of water rain down on the rollers. The rollers disappeared into the wall.

“That’s the rainbow room over there.” said Comet, pointing to a side door in the wall. Violet followed Comet to the door, which was painted white just like the rest of the room. When they entered the rainbow room, Violet gawked at how beautiful the room was. The walls were painted white and sparkling. The rollers were moving slowly underneath what looked to be a closed skylight.

There was a wiring sound and Violet looked up to see a pony was cranking a handle and a mirror was moving out into view.

“Looks like there about the make a new rainbow.” said Comet, grinning. Violet watched as the mirror stopped underneath the closed skylight. The rollers were moving underneath the mirror. Another pony pulled a lever on the opposite wall and the skylight opened. Light from the sun poured into the room, blinding everyone for a brief second. The sunlight hit the rollers and the mirror, then to Violet’s surprise. A beautiful rainbow appeared, showering everyone in the room with rays of colour. Two more ponies came and sucked the rainbow into a container, before tossing the container into a storage room.

“Ah, those must be deliveries for other pony towns. This facility is the only rainbow making business in Equestria, that’s why we only send out rainbows on special occasions.” Comet explained. He glanced at Violet, her coat was dusted with multi-coloured dust. It looked like glitter. “Looks like you got some rainbow dust on you.” he said, dusting her off.

“That…was…THE MOST AMAZING THING I’VE EVER SEEN!” Violet shrieked.

“I thought you’d like it. Look there goes the excess rainbow.” Comet pointed to a plug in the floor. Violet watched as a colourful liquid was drained away.

“That’s going to be pumped to other parts of the factory, usually to be made into dye, paint and other stuff.” He was interrupted by Violet’s stomach growling.

“Sorry, I guess I’m hungry.” she said, sheepishly.

Comet chuckled. “That’s fine, I’m hungry too. How about we get something at the factory café?”

“Say no more!”

In minutes they were seated at a table for two in the café. Violet was looking through the menu. She was shocked that there were things like Hay Sandwiches and Daisy Rolls. She wasn’t sure about eating hay or daisies. But then again she was a pony, so her taste buds would be different. Right? Eventually she ordered a tomato and lettuce sandwich with fries, while Comet had ordered a hay sandwich. As they ate, Violet couldn’t help but shudder when she watched her date eat hay. Comet noticed her gawking and asked.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing,” Violet said, quickly biting into her own sandwich.

Comet seemed to read her mind. “I guess you never had a hay sandwich before, huh?”

Violet shot up in shock. “You mind reader!”

“Haha, I guess your parents only fed you vegetables.” He stopped talking when he saw the change of expression on her face.

“Sorry.”

There was an awkward silence for a few minutes. The only sound that could be heard was the chewing of the two ponies. ‘Come on man! Say something, you’ll scare her off.’ Comet thought. Violet had finished her sandwich and was starting on her fries.

“Do you wanna try a bit?” Comet asked, holding out the uneaten half of his sandwich. Violet looked down at the sandwich in his hoof, debating whether or not to try a bit. But she didn’t want to be rude and hastily took the sandwich. Cringing slightly, she bit off a corner and began chewing. Her eyes widened in surprise at the salty taste of the hay. Unknown to her, she started to take more bites. Bite after bite after bite and the sandwich was gone.
“Wow, okay you got me there. That was pretty good.” she said. The rational part of her was screaming. “What am I doing? I just ate hay! And liked it!”

The rest of lunch was them chatting and telling jokes. A lot of time past and the clock tolled 2 o’clock in the afternoon.

“Let’s go.” Comet said, helping Violet out of her seat. After exploring Cloudstale some more, they flew back down to the ground. They did some more walking around until they spotted a certain bakery.

“Hey, let’s stop and get a milkshake at Sugar Cube Corner.” Comet offered. Violet wasn’t going to say no to that. The bell rang as they entered the bakery. A certain pink pony was there to greet them.

“Hey Pinkie!” called Violet, recognising the pony.

“Violet, where have you been all day?” she asked.

“We’ve been exploring Cloudstale,” Comet explained. “Now how about two milkshakes for us?”

“Okie dokie lokie! What flavour?”

“Chocolate will do just fine.”

“Anything else?” asked Pinkie, scribbling down the order.

Violet was looking at the cupcakes. Comet seemed to read her mind again. “Two strawberry fudge cupcakes.” he said.

Violet rolled her eyes again. “How are you doing that?”

Pinkie giggled. “That will be 4 Bits please.”

Comet opened his wallet and placed four gold coins on the counter. ‘So this is Equestrian money’ Violet realised.

When Pinkie scratched down the order, she called for Mrs Cake to handle the order.

“Seat yourselves, Mrs Cake will be here with your order soon.” The pink pony went back to handling the register. Violet and Comet walked over and sat down at a vacant table. They talked for a bit, until Mrs Cake walked up. She was a kind hearted mare; her coat was a bubble-gum blue and her mane and tail was like pink cupcake icing. That very same mare walked over to the ponies, holding a tray with their food on top.

Comet and Violet ate their cupcakes and sipped their milkshakes, staring into each-other’s eyes. Each of them felt fluttery, like a thousand butterflies.

They hadn’t even reacted when a loud group of ponies walked in. No, they just stared into each-other’s eyes, enjoying each-other’s company. When they finished, they went for a walk in an open field. It was night time so hardly anypony was around as they all finished work.

To Violet and Comet, it seemed like they were the only ponies in the world. Violet felt her heart beat uncontrollably. ‘What is wrong with me, yet it doesn’t feel wrong at all.’ she thought.
Comet was thinking the same thing.

Comet and Violet sat down on the top of a hill, stargazing. “Today was amazing,” Violet faced Comet. “Thank-you, for today.”

Comet chuckled. “Your welcome.”

They said nothing as they watched the star’s sparkle. “Violet,”

“Yes Comet?”

“I know this is little early, but I really like you. I love everything about you; your coat, your mane and your eyes. They’re like sparkling gems. But it’s not just your beauty; your also kind, funny, smart and generous.”

Violet blushed magenta, her breathe was taken. “I-I don’t know what to say.” Comet surprised her by taking her hooves in his own. “Just say that you feel the same way.”

Violet’s heart was pounding in her chest. She did feel the same way about Comet. She was in love with him.

“I…do feel the same way.” she whispered. Comet smiled and cradled her chin in his hoof. “You have no idea how happy you have made me.”
Violet grinned. “I think I do.” She then saw that Comet was only inches from her face. He was going to kiss her. ‘My First Kiss!’ Her thoughts screamed.

Without warning, Comet’s lips were on hers. Violet’s eyes widened to the maximum. She felt a wave of love overcome her as she kissed him back. Her eyes slid shut and she felt Comet wrap his wings around her in a feathered blanket. They broke away after a few minutes. Comet still had his wings around her, both were bright red and breathing heavy from the kiss.

“Woah…that was my first kiss.” Violet murmured.

“Did you like it?” Comet asked.

“I loved it.”

“Violet…I was wondering,” Comet began, his blue eyes met Violet’s green. “Violet-Rose, will you be my very special somepony?”

Violet’s mouth dropped. The first time she had been asked that was just an act, but this was real. She couldn’t deny her feelings.

“I would love to Comet Blitz.” Comet gave a yelp of joy and kissed her once more. When they broke away, Violet was beaming. “Come on, I’ll take you home.”

On the walk home, Violet remembered something. “Comet,”

“Yeah?”

“I…you know how I’m a friend of a princess?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, yesterday we got tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala and I was wondering if you-”

”Would be your date.” Comet finished for her.

Violet nodded.

“I would be honoured Violet.” said Comet, smiling.

“Great! Looks like our second date is sorted.”

Comet laughed.

“Okay, we’re here.” They stopped at the cottages red door.

“Today was awesome. Goodnight.” Violet said.

“Goodnight, special somepony.” said Comet, giving Violet a peck on the cheek. Violet closed the door behind her, touching her lips with the tip of her hoof. His kiss still there. When he was out of sight, she jumped up and cried.

“Yes!”

She started to flutter around in a circle movement. A delicious smell was coming from the kitchen, Violet hummed a tune as she fluttered over to the kitchen. Her roommates were there, Fluttershy was stirring a pot of soup and Discord was using his magic to prepare a potato bake. Fluttershy was the first to see her.

“Violet! How did it go?”

“It was great Fluttershy, what’s cooking?”

“Pumpkin Soup to start, followed by a Potato Bake with a Salad and then a Chocolate Cake for dessert.” Discord explained.

“Sounds good, need any help?”

“Sure, I need someone to stir the soup while I chop the onions.” said Fluttershy. Violet took the spoon and stirred the soup, while the pegasus chopped the onions and added them to the soup. While stirring, Violet hummed, thinking about her amazing day.

Discord used his magic to serve up everyone. While eating, both Discord and Fluttershy noticed the expression on Violet’s face. She had a sort of dreamy glow about her. When Discord made the candles dance, he was confused to why Violet wasn’t laughing.

“Violet?” he snapped his fingers, knocking Violet out of her trance.

“Huh what?” Violet muttered.

“What’s wrong with her Flutters?” Discord asked. Fluttershy smiled and whispered in his ear.

“I think her date went well.”

The answer hit Discord like a tonne of bricks. “Oh!” he said, nodding and happy for his new friend.

“Violet, while you were gone, Rarity came by today. She wants us all at the boutique tomorrow so she can get our measurements for the gala.” Fluttershy explained.

“Okay, then. I’ll be there.” sighed Violet, fiddling with her fork.

“Aren’t you going to tell us how it went?” Discord asked.

“How what went?”

“Your date.” Fluttershy said.

“Oh well, Comet took me to see Cloudstale and gave me a tour of the rainbow factory. After that we went to Sugar Cube Corner for a milkshake and then we went for a walk, then he…”

Violet blushed at the memory. “He kissed me.”

Fluttershy and Discord’s mouths dropped.

“He kissed you?!” Discord exclaimed, a spoonful of soup halfway to his mouth. “Today is just full of surprises and I’m not even causing chaos.”

“Violet, I’m so happy for you. Is he your special somepony now?” Fluttershy asked.

“He is, that was my first kiss too.”

“Your first kiss! That is something to be happy about.”

“You go girl.” said Discord giving Violet a pat on the back.

“Thanks.” said Violet and went back to her food. The rest of the evening was the three roommates chatting about random stuff. After dinner, Violet helped Fluttershy with the dishes, not that there was much to do as Discord just snapped the dishes clean. Violet went to bed, dreaming of Comet.

Before the Gala

“Don’t you already have my measurements?” Violet asked from the stand.

“Darling, you’re a growing girl. I need to be absolutely sure.”

Violet rolled her eyes as the unicorn took her measurements.

“I don’t see why you need to do all this is right now, the Gala isn’t until next month.” Rainbow said, hardly taking her eyes off her book.

“Rainbow! Your forgetting that I’m making these dresses. Which means I have to design, seven dresses and two suits, then sew them. It takes time Dashie, which is why I need the measurements now.” Rarity explained, slightly annoyed.

“Alright Fluttershy, you’re up next.” Violet climbed down from the stand and went over to the others. Those who were waiting to be measured just chatted.

“Violet, why don’t you tell them about how your date went.” Discord said. Violet gulped as all eyes were on her.

“Well…Comet took me to see the Rainbow Factory.”

“You got to see the Rainbow Factory. Did you see how the rainbows were made?” Pinkie asked.

“Pinkie, rainbows are made from light and water, I should know. My name has the word ‘rainbow’ in it.” said Rainbow Dash. “Did he tell you about the Sonic Rainboom?”

Violet stared at the cyan pegasus. “The Sonic what?”

Rainbow Dash gasped as if she just heard a naughty word. “You don’t know about the Sonic Rainboom!”

“Yeah, what is it anyway?” Violet asked.

“I’ll show after our measurements are done.” Said Rainbow Dash, going up to the stand.

“Anyway, after that we went to Sugar Cube Corner for a milkshake.”

“Oh yeah! I remember that, I was the one to take down your order.” Pinkie squealed. “Yeah, then after we had finished our milkshake, we went for walk in a field. Then he…I got my first kiss.”

Everypony shot her looks of shock, Rarity almost poked Rainbow Dash with a pin. “You what?!” she screamed.

“He kissed me.” Violet confirmed. All around, Twilight, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity were feeding Violet a bunch of questions about her date.

“How old is he?”
“What colour is his mane?”
“His coat?”
“His eyes?”
“How did it go?”
“His he nice?”
“Does he respect you?”

Violet took a deep breath an answered their questions. “18, light blue, golden yellow, icy blue, great, yes and yes!” The mares squealed. Violet soon had said mares hugging her, squeezing out all the breath in her body.

“Discord! Help!” she wheezed. Discord snapped himself into a security guard uniform and blew a whistle.

“Alright ladies back up now. Give her some air, please.” When the mares let go, Violet took a big breath of air.
“Thanks Discord.” she said, still wheezing.

“Don’t mention it.” he said, snapping away the uniform. It turned out that Violet was the first in the group to be kissed.

After Rarity had jotted down everyone’s measurements, they followed Rainbow Dash outside.

“Here’s was a Sonic Rainboom is,” she said, taking to the skies. Applejack nudged Violet in the ribs. “Watch this.”

Violet’s eyes never left Rainbow as the cyan pegasus flew to an exceeding height. When the pony was high enough, she started to plump it down. Violet let out a yelp as she saw Rainbow Dash fall. She spotted something appear in front of Rainbow’s hooves, it looked like a ray of light.

“Here it comes!” cried Twilight.

Violet’s mouth dropped when she saw the light getting tighter and tight, until…BOOM! In a flash of colour, a rainbow appeared from behind Rainbow Dash and trailed her wherever she flew.

“OH. MY. GOSH!” Violet cried. When Rainbow Dash finally landed, Violet was frozen in shock.

“That Violet, was a Sonic Rainboom.” she said, grinning.

“That was amazing!” Violet said.

“It is, isn’t it, I’m the only pony who can do such a thing. The first time I did a Rainboom was when I was a filly. That’s how I got my cutie mark.” Rainbow explained.

“Actually, we all owe our marks to Dashie,” said Twilight.

Violet raised an eyebrow. “How so?”

“Well, when I got my cutie mark. I was trying to pass a test to get into Princess Celestia’s school for Gifted Unicorns. I had to hatch a dragon egg, but for some reason I couldn’t. I was sure I was going to fail, then this rainbow came out of nowhere. Somehow my spell worked, but it worked a little too well. However, I did manage to hatch the egg. But when my magic had settled, Princess Celestia could see how powerful I was, so she made me her personal student. Then my cutie mark appeared.” Twilight explained.

Violet’s eyes widened.

“That was also when I met Spike.” Twilight said, giving the dragon a pat on the head.

“When I got my cutie mark, I was living on this boring rock farm with my family. There was no smiling, no playing, only rocks. Then I saw this rainbow appear. I had never felt joy like that in my life and I wanted everyone I knew to be happy too. So I planned a party for my parents and sisters. That was the first time they had ever smiled. That’s how I got my cutie mark.” Pinkie said.

“When I got my mark, I wanted more than living the farm life, so I left Sweet Apple Acres to live with my Aunt and Uncle Orange. Turned out that I missed farm life and my family. But when the rainbow appeared, it pointed me the way home. That’s when this thing appeared.” said Applejack, pointing to her flank.

“When I got my cutie mark, I was making costumes for the school play. They weren’t fabulous enough, for my taste. Then one day, my horn started acting funny, it led me up into these rocky outcrops. I wasn’t sure why it had led me there, until I saw this rainbow appear and a rock in front of me cracked open, revealing hundreds of beautiful gems. I used those gems to make my costumes fabulous. Then my cutie mark appeared.” Rarity explained.

“When I got my cutie mark, I was being bullied for my weak flying skills. Fortunately, Rainbow Dash stood up for me. She challenged the bullies to a race, but I got knocked off the cloud I was standing on. Luckily, a cloud of butterflies caught me. I had never seen a butterfly before, since they don’t fly as high as Cloudstale. I was enjoying the company of the animals, but then this rainbow appeared and scared the animals into hiding. That’s when I realised my gift of talking to animals, then my mark appeared.” Fluttershy explained.

Violet stared at the Mane Six.

“The rainbow they all saw was my first Sonic Rainboom.” Rainbow Dash said.

“That’s so cool, it’s like you girls had a connection before you even met.” said Violet. Slowly, Violet learned more about her friends and they became very close.

One month later
Violet was sleeping in her bed, enjoying her dream. To her shock she was woken up by a loud whistle blow.

She yelped and fell out of her bed. Her vision blurry, she saw the outline of a mismatched figure.

“Discord?! What are you doing? It’s six o’clock in the morning.” she demanded.

“Violet get up; the girls are outside waiting. We have a train to catch.” he said. Violet groaned, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

“Pack your stuff, we have to go.” Discord said, running out the door. Still sleepy, Violet packed her personal stuff into her saddle bag. She draped the blanket over her body and wrapped her scarf around her neck. Violet fluttered downstairs and outside into the dark night sky, the sun was starting to peak out over the horizon. The rest of the group were there, all looking tired and eating bits of toast.

“Come on y’all, that train won’t wait forever.” Applejack said, sleepily. The group made their way to the station.

“Okay everypony, has everyone got their tickets?” Twilight asked.

“Yeah.” they said, holding up their tickets.

Twilight checked everyone was there, just as the train rolled into view. “All aboard to Canterlot!” called the conductor.
“That’s us, come on guys lets go.”

The group of seven slowly walked onto the train and found their seats. Violet practically collapsed into her seat, Rarity had to get help from Discord to get her suitcases onto the train. Their dresses and suits for the Gala were in those suitcases. Violet couldn’t keep her eyes open as the train rolled out of the station. They were on their way to Canterlot. Violet woke up to sunlight blazing in her eyes. The train was still going and her friends were still asleep. Violet looked out the window to watch each beautiful scene. Eventually she got bored and pulled out a book. Twilight had given it to her as something to do on the train. After reading for a few minutes, she heard her friends stir.

“Morning.” she said.

“Good morning Violet.” Fluttershy said.

“Morning y’all!” Applejack called. Rarity removed her mask and rubbed her eyes.

“Good morning.” she chimed.

Soon the only one who was still asleep was Discord, snoring away in his seat. Violet saw that Rainbow had a black marker with her. An idea popped into Violet’s head.

“Dashie, can please borrow that marker.”

“Sure, why do you need it.”

Violet took the marker in her mouth. “Watch this.”

Violet pulled the lid off the pen and tiptoed over to Discord. Careful not to wake him, she started to draw on his forehead. The other ponies and Spike saw what she was doing and stared at her. Violet then pulled away, revealing that she had written ‘I’m an Alien’ on Discord’s head.

Everyone started giggling, Spike got up to wipe it off but Violet stopped him. “Let him find out himself.”

Just then, Discord woke up, completely oblivious to the writing on his head. “Morning girls, we almost there yet?”

“Nearly, give it about another 15 minutes.” said Twilight, trying to hid her laugh. Discord somehow didn’t notice and snapped up some pancakes, scrambled eggs and buttered toast. “How about we have a proper breakfast?”

“I’m down with that!” Violet cried, taking a plate and helping herself. All through breakfast, Discord was wondering why the mares and Spike kept sniggering at him.

After the fifteen minutes passed, they were off the train. Violet stared at the beautiful city of Canterlot, then at the palace that stood high above.

“That’s where we’re staying.” said Twilight. The walk to the palace was tricky for Discord, because ponies seemed to keep looking at him weird. Course he thought it was because of his past. Inside the palace, they were greeted by a tall white alicorn with a flowing mane of green, blue, pink and cyan. Sitting on top of her head was a golden crown with a single amethyst in it.

This was Princess Celestia. “Twilight! Welcome back.” she said, elegantly.

“It’s good to be back, I’ve brought my friends with me.” The six ponies, dragon and Discord came forward, holding bags. Celestia spotted Violet in the crowd.

“Who’s this?” she asked, indicating Violet. The pegasus stepped slowly forward.

“Celestia, this is Violet. The human I was telling you about.” Violet walked up to Celestia and bowed. “It is an honour to meet you, your majesty.”

“The honour is mine Violet-Rose; I look forward to hear all about humans.”

“Thank-you, your highness.” Celestia then saw Discord, but noticed the writing on his forehead.

“Discord, what’s that on your head?” she asked, trying to stifle a laugh.

At that everyone started laughing. Discord looked at them in confusion. “What are you talking about?” He reached up and touched his forehead, then looked down at his eagle claw, a black smudge was visible.

“NO!” In a panic he snapped up a mirror and looked at his reflection. “WHAT THE HECK!!!” he cried, shaking the room.

No one could control themselves anymore and kept laughing, even Celestia. Discord’s face blushed bright red as he snapped up a cloth. He pointed accusingly at Violet.

“Violet did you do that when I was sleeping?!” Violet could only laugh.

“Was that on my head the whole morning?” More laughter from Violet.

“I was wondering why everyone was looking at me funny when I was getting off the train.” he muttered, the message completely wiped off.

“That’s what you get for waking me up by blowing a whistle in my face.” Violet choked out.

“Wait?” Twilight shot a look at Discord. “You blew a whistle in her face when she was sleeping!”

“Yeah so?” said Discord, looking very grumpy.

“I’m sorry Discord, but you should have expected something like that. You just got a fresh serving of Karma.” Twilight said the last line in a triumphing tone.

“I didn’t think that you, Discord, of all ponies would have gotten a slice of Karma.” Celestia chuckled.

Discord rolled his eyes., then patted Violet on the head. “I don’t know how you manage to prank me so many times, but you did get me good.”

He threw his arms in the air. “What the hell?! Ponies look at me funny all the time!”

This caused another uproar of laughter.

“What’s going on?” called a voice. Everyone turned to see a dark blue alicorn with a flowing mane like the night sky. The mare was slightly smaller than Celestia. “Violet, this is my little sister. Princess Luna,” said Celestia.

“Luna, this is Violet-Rose. The Human.” Luna raised an eyebrow.

“But Sister, this is just a normal pegasus pony?”

“Yeah about that, I turned her into a pony because it was the only way for her to move around.” Discord explained.

“Right.” Celestia glanced over at Violet.

“Violet, would it be okay for us to see what a human looks like?”

“I guess, but only for a minute.” Violet replied. Without being asked, Discord snapped his fingers and Violet turned back into her old self. Her T-shirt was the same, as were her jeans. But her hair and skin was clean and groomed. Celestia and Luna gazed at her open mouthed.

“Whoa, thou must walk on two legs?” said Luna.

Violet raised an eyebrow at Luna. “Why are you talking like that?”

“Forgive my sister, she’s a few centuries behind.” Celestia explained.

“That’s fine, now can I please get turned back before someone sees.”

“Way ahead of ya, Vi!” called Discord, snapping her back into a pony.

“Now that’s taken care of, we’ll take you to your rooms.” Celestia and Luna led the group up into a hallway. Along the hallway were several doors.

“This is the guest quarters; you’ll be staying here. We have also been informed of your plus ones arriving tomorrow for the Gala.” Luna explained.

Violet blushed slightly. It had been a week since she had seen her boyfriend. In the past month, they had gone on small lunch meetings and walks, but nothing too big.

Comet, the CMC and a few ponies that Violet didn’t know were arriving the next day. “Each of your rooms has a picture of your cutie mark on the door, except for you Discord. Your room is the door with the checked pattern.” Celestia explained.

Violet quickly found her room and gawked at the interior of the room. The bed was double four-poster, with silk pillows and sheets. The outer sheet was a deep violet, with a rose pattern. Violet started unpacking her suitcase and backpack. She placed the perfumes she had made for them to wear on the vanity.

They were all labelled with the name of the pony it was for. ‘Cool Breezes’ for Rainbow, ‘Cotton Candy’ for Pinkie, ‘Lavenders’ for Rarity, ‘Apple Cider and Cinnamon’ for Applejack, ‘Mixed Berries’ for Twilight, ‘Tulips’ for Fluttershy and her special ‘Violet-Rose’ perfume for herself.

After unpacking, she went to check on her friends. She stopped at Rainbow Dash’s room, which had a beautiful Olympus theme to it, with Rainbow banners decorating the walls, and the bed sheets had a hue of rainbow.

“Cool room.” she said, watching Rainbow plaster Wonderbolt posters on the walls.

“Thanks, hey that prank you pulled on Discord today was priceless! How did you do that without him waking up?!”

“Dunno, I guess he’s pretty vulnerable when he’s sleeping.” Violet chuckled. She then spotted one of the posters. It was of a Wonderbolt stallion, with a light blue coat and black mane which was thrown back and behind his goggles, Violet could see that his eyes were bright green. Violet then saw that Rainbow Dash had obviously drawn a heart around his face, underneath she had written ‘RD + SS’.

“Who’s that?” Violet innocently asked.

Rainbow Dash paled and snatched the poster away.

“No pony! Just a guy…I fancy.” Violet squinted at the blushing pegasus, it didn’t take her long to figure out what it was.

“Oh! You’ve got a crush!”

“No I don’t! Tomboys don’t have crushes!”

“Hey, I used to have a human friend who was the biggest tomboy and she always had crushes.”

Rainbow sighed defeated.

“Alright I’ll tell you, his name’s Soarin Skies or Soarin. He’s the Co-Captain for the Wonderbolts, I met him last year’s Gala. I ended up saved his behind several times after that, so I guess he was the damsel in distress while I was the knight in shining armour. Anyway, one time when I was saving him, we both ended up in hospital with a broken wing. It was then that I fell for him. He’s coming to the Gala tomorrow night and I hope to ask him out.” Rainbow finished her story with a blush.

“Well go for it girl. He’s quite the looker.” Violet said, slapping Rainbow on the back.

“Thanks, ya know Violet. I think we get along very well.”

“Thanks RD, I’m going to check up on the others.” Violet stopped at Applejack’s room; which had been decorated with green wall paper with an apple pattern. There were also beautifully carved woodworks, such as the dressing table and picture frames. The bed spread was checked brown and yellow.

Applejack was humming a tune while hanging a picture of her family on the wall, but the Applejack, Big Mac and Apple Bloom in the picture were foals; picture Apple Bloom was just a tiny baby while AJ and Big Mac looked around six to ten years old. Standing over them were two ponies that Violet didn’t recognise. They were a mare and a stallion. The mare was peach coloured, with an orange curly mane, freckles and teal green eyes. The stallion looked almost exactly like Apple Bloom, but his build was similar to that of Big Mac. His coat was bright yellow, and his mane was long and the colour of red apples. On his head was a cowboy hat.
Violet instantly recognised the hat to be Applejack’s hat.

“They your parents?” Violet asked.

“Yeah…I think that was taken a few months before…”

“Hey, if you’re not comfortable with saying it, don’t say it.” Violet said, putting a hoof on AJ’s shoulder.

“So, why are you here Violet, besides looking through my personal belongings.”

“I just came to check up on you, hard to believe that the Gala’s tomorrow night.”

Applejack chuckled. “Yeah, the CMC were excited when we told them they were going to the Gala. Apple Bloom screamed at a volume that alerted all of Ponyville.”

"Yeah I heard, I swear your sister is part vulture.” Violet said, snickering. Applejack laughed.

“The CMC are gonna be sharing a room down the hall, it’s not far from our rooms so if they’re in need of somethin, they can come get us.”

“That’s smart, I’ll go check on the others.” said Violet, heading for the door.

“That’s fine, see ya around Violet.”

Violet knocked on Twilight’s room.

“Come in!” called a voice. Violet entered the room and saw that Twilight’s room was themed after the stars and constellations. Even the bed spread had a pattern of constellations. Twilight was arranging her books with her magic.

“Oh hey Violet, what are you here for?”

“Nothing just checking up on everyone.”

“That’s sweet.” said Twilight. Violet then saw that Spike’s basket was sitting at the foot of the bed. The baby dragon was helping Twilight unpack.

“Why don’t you have your own room?” Violet asked.

“It would be a waste of a room, because I’m small. All I need is my basket. Besides I’ve always shared a room with Twilight.” Spike explained.

“Oh I guess that makes sense.” Violet said.

“Twilight?” she asked.

“Yeah?”

“Do you have a date coming for the Gala?” Twilight bit her lip.

“Well…for some time I have had a thing for this guard. His names Flash Sentry and he’s kinda cute.” Violet giggled.

“Sounds like you have a crush on this Flash Sentry.” Twilight blushed.

“Maybe, but I really don’t think that a coltfriend is necessary this minute. I have my studies you know.”

“I understand, though I think you should just focus on the Gala, it might be wise for you to let your brain relax for a couple hours.” Twilight finished stacking her books on the shelf.

“I guess I do need a break from everything. Thanks for the advice Violet.”

Violet beamed. “Happy to help!” she said, walking out the door.

Her next stop was Rarity’s room. “Hey Rarity!” she chimed.

The unicorn jumped.

“Violet darling, you startled me!” The fashionista gasped.

“Sorry, I was just checking on you. Hey nice room.”

Rarity’s room was themed like a palace. The walls were cream coloured with gold trims. The carpet was pearly white and her bed was a double four-poster like everyone elses. The sheets were white and silky, while the outer sheet was a deep rich purple, same as Rarity’s mane.

“It is isn’t it darling, I just can’t wait for the Gala tomorrow night.”

“Meet neither, do you have a date Rarity. With your beauty and generosity, you must have somepony.” Rarity blushed.

“Thank you for the compliment darling and I do hope to court somepony.”

“Really? Who?” Violet asked.

“A stallion named Fancy Pants,”

She was cut off by Violet sniggering.

“Sorry, it’s just I’ve never heard of someone with the name ‘Fancy Pants’. Back in my old world, the term ‘Fancy Pants’ was used to mock people.”

Rarity gasped as if she had stepped on a thorn.

“Well your species must be some of the rudest beings to walk on earth.”

“Not all of us, you don’t think I’m rude do you?” Violet asked, with a pout.

“Of course not darling, forgive me for saying such things.” Rarity said.

“It’s fine, so tell me more about Fancy Pants.” Violet asked.

Rarity cleared her throat and spoke in a high class tone.

“He is the most important pony in all of Canterlot. I bumped into him last year in the street. Mind you he was with another pony then, but recently he broke up with her due to some issues. That means I finally have a chance with him. I may have fallen for him…” Rarity trailed off with a blush.

“Wow, he sounds great. You deserve him.” said Violet.

“Thanks Violet. By the way, how is it that for someone who has had no experience with high class society, knows exactly what to say.” Violet shrugged.

“I dunno, a gift I guess. Well, I’m going to check on the other three.”

Violet knocked on Pinkie’s door and shielded her eyes from the intense pink of the room. Pinkie’s room was decorated with party supplies and balloons. Even the bed spread had a balloon pattern.

“Violet! How are you doing?” asked the party pony.

“Fine, what about you?” “

I’m okie dokie lokie Violet. I just can wait for the Gala tomorrow night! It’s like the biggest party of the year!”

“So…have you got a date for the Gala?”

Pinkie’s face fell. “No, at least not yet. Maybe when I do, he’ll be a Super Duper Party Pony like me!”

Violet chuckled. “You really like parties don’t you. It’s no wonder why you’re the Element of Laughter.”

“Indeed a roonie! What about you Violet. I heard you have a coltfriend now.”

“That is correct, he’s coming tomorrow.” Pinkie hugged Violet.

“Well I hope everything goes well for you too, my Pinkie Sense tells me that this relationship is going to go places.”

Violet blushed. “Well, glad your settling in quickly. I’m going to check on Fluttershy.”

Violet knocked on the door to Fluttershy’s door. “Come in!” she called.

Violet admired the green décor of Fluttershy’s room. Said pegasus was sitting on her silky bed, talking to Angel Bunny.

“Violet! What are you doing here?”

“Nothing, just checking on everyone. How are doing?”

“Good thanks.” Violet sat down on the bed with Fluttershy.

“So…remember about what you were telling me about Discord?” Violet asked. Fluttershy blushed.

“Of course, I really wish he would dance with me at the Gala. But I don’t think that he’d want to be anything more than friends.”

Violet was shocked. Fluttershy thought that Discord only wanted them to be friends. Oh how wrong she was!

“Don't you dare say that! He cares very much about you and didn’t you two dance at my Welcome Party?”

“I guess you’re right, oh Violet I hate it when he says that he’s a monster. He doesn’t know how handsome he is. I remember when I first reformed him. He had turned Sweet Apple Acres into an ice rink and I got mad. He asked me to skating with him, but I threw the skates into the ice. I felt so stupid, because I broke his heart. I realised that he was just somepony who only wanted a friend. But after I snapped at him, I don’t know if he will ever forgive me for that. Violet, he was so hurt that he turned everything back…for me.” Fluttershy started sobbing, Violet stared at her shocked.

“Fluttershy, I…I…didn’t know.”

“I didn’t expect you too.” Fluttershy whispered. Angel Bunny snuggled under his owner’s arm.

“It’ll be okay, don’t worry about it too much. I can promise you this, if he refuses to dance with you, I’ll force him too.”
This got a short giggle out of the two mares.

“Thank you Violet. You really know what to say in these situations.”

“I’ll be going now, don’t want to disturb you any longer.” Violet said, getting up from the bed.

“Bye Violet, thanks for the advice.” Violet walked down to Discord’s room. It wasn’t hard to find as his room had a red and black door.

Violet knocked on the door. “Discord, you in?” she called out.

“Come on in Violet.” He answered back. Violet stepped inside and instantly regretted it. The walls were checkered black and purple. While the quilt on the bed was checkered black and red. But what made Violet feel dizzy was the fact that all the furniture was floating. Discord was gliding around the room, humming a tune.

“Hey Violet, like what I’ve done with the room.”

“It’s…very colourful.” she murmured.

“Oh sorry, are you getting dizzy?” he asked.

“Yeah, can you please stop the furniture from moving?”

“Fine!” Discord snapped his fingers and the furniture stopped moving and went back to their original spots. Violet regained her sight and faced Discord.

“What was that tune you were humming?” she asked, curious.

“Just something I wrote for Fluttershy. I plan to sing it to her at the Gala.”

Violet stared at him. “You sing?”

“Yeah, I may be the Lord of Chaos but it doesn’t mean I don’t have other hobbies besides causing chaos. I’ve been working on this song since you gave me that advice on dating. I think it’s done.”

“Could you sing a little for me, I promise I won’t tell.” Violet pleaded.

“No can do Violet. It’s meant to surprise everyone. You’ll hear it tomorrow night.” Discord explained.

Violet pouted.

Meanwhile, in another part of the castle.

“Sister? Are you certain it’s her?” Luna asked.

“Positive. She looks very much like her, she even has the same eyes.”

“Do you think her mother told her about Equestria and the You-Know-What.”

Celestia turned away from her sister, facing a portrait of two yellow pegasus mares, one had short curly red hair, violet eyes and thick green glasses, while the other mare had pink shoulder length hair and bright green eyes.

“It’s been years since we’ve seen Posey. Do you think she’s here too? Rosey has never been the same since her sister left us.” Luna asked.

“I don’t know; I’ve only seen Violet.” said Celestia. Luna stared at her sister.

“Tia…what happens when she finds out that she’s here? What happened at the Canterlot Wedding was nothing compared to what she can and will do to Violet?” Celestia sighed deeply.

“I don’t know Lulu; all we can do right now is hope that Chrysalis doesn’t find her. Maybe its best if Violet goes home to the Human World.”

Author's Note

Hmmmm.....What is Celestia hiding? And who is this Posey?

At the Gala

“OWW! Applejack do ya have to pull so hard when you tie my bow like that!” Apple Bloom shrieked.

It was the night of the Gala and all the girls were getting dressed in Rarity’s room as it was where the dresses were. The CMC arrived that afternoon, along with Comet. Big Mac and Granny Smith had to stay behind to look after the farm.
Apple Bloom was dressed in a jewelled red dress and Applejack was tying a green sparkly bow in her sisters red hair.
Sweetie Belle’s dress had a navy blue back with green flowers on the edges, while the bottom of the skirt was translucent and her mane was done up into a cute bob with a shiny blue headband.
Scootaloo was dressed in a purple and orange fading dress that was feathered and had a lightning bolt on the neckline, her mane was straitening down the side and her tiny wings poked through two holes in the back.
Rarity was busy doing everyone’s hair and make-up; she herself was wearing a shimmery purple gown, with lilac lace bordering the edges and neckline.
Applejack was wearing a green and brown cowgirl dress and green boots. She even let Rarity decorate her precious hat with jewelled apples and green ribbons. Her blonde hair was done into a plait that hung from her shoulder.

Twilight was dressed in a dark blue dress with silver stars along the hem, neckline and the bodice was covered in silver glitter. She wore her crown on top her curled hair.
Rainbow Dash was dressed in a shimmering gown that had a hue of rainbow. She wore a gold wreath in her mane, which had been straightened.
Pinkie Pie was wearing a fluffy pink dress with candy embroidered along the edges. Her hair was her usual poofy style.
Fluttershy was wearing a simple green ball gown, green gloves and slippers, while her mane had been curled slightly and had threaded flowers through it. She wore a little make up, enough to make her face shimmer but not enough to block out her natural beauty.

Violet was still behind the curtain getting into her dress. Finally, she hollered out to the girls. “You girls ready for the reveal?”

“Ready as we’ll ever be Violet.” Twilight called back.

Violet slowly walked out from behind the curtain, letting her friends take in her appearance. She was dressed in a light blue dress, with a translucent sheet over the top. Her blonde mane was done up into a loose ponytail with glitter all through it. On top of her head was a silver sparkly headband with a shimmery violet sitting behind her ear. The only make-up she had on was mascara and lip gloss, making her green eyes sparkle. They were all wearing their special perfume.

“Violet, you look beautiful!” Twilight breathed.

“Comet’s gonna have a heart attack when he sees you!” Rainbow grinned.

“You look so beautiful Violet!” said the CMC.

Violet blushed at all the compliments she was getting. “Shall we go; the boys are waiting.” she said.

She was right. Waiting at the bottom of the steps was Comet Blitz, Spike and Discord. All were wearing suits. Comet’s was black with a white shirt and blue neck tie with a comet pattern. Spike was wearing a black tux with a white ruffled shirt and a top hat.
Discord was also wearing a black tux and white shirt, but he was also wearing a ruby red and gold vest and bowtie. He began tugging on his collar. “Is it hot in here?”

“Discord get a hold of yourself. You going to look like a nervous wreck.” said Comet, giving Discord a slap on the back.

“I’m sorry Comet. I just can’t focus right now. What if I slip up? What if I make a fool of myself?”

“What if Celestia jumps onto a table and starts doing the chicken dance. You’ll be fine.”

“Easy for you to say, you’ve already got a marefriend.”

“You think I wasn’t nervous on our first date? Of course I was nervous. Its normal to be nervous.” Comet explained.

“Guys, there they are!” cried Spike. Discord and Comet instantly snapped back into reality and watched the group of mares walk down the stairs, but only two caught their eyes. Discord’s mouth fell open when he saw Fluttershy. Absolutely beautiful. The little make-up she wore gave her fur a light glow and he could have sworn that she was sparkling.

Comet felt his heart beat faster and faster when he saw his marefriend approach him. She looked like a star in that dress. Violet blushed when she saw Comet, standing there in his suit. He looked so handsome.

“My dear, you look beautiful.” he said, taking her hoof and planted a kiss on it. “Not so bad yourself. Nice suit by the way.” she said.

“Thanks, it was my Dad’s.” Violet giggled as her boyfriend brushed a bit of hair out of her face. “Shall we go?” he offered. Comet then led Violet into the ballroom.

The other ponies had already entered the ballroom. Only Fluttershy and Discord were standing there. Discord had to slap his cheek to knock him back into reality. He held out a gloved claw for Fluttershy. “Shall we, my dear?”

“Sure…” Fluttershy whispered and let him lead her into the ballroom with the rest.

The orchestra were playing a smooth melody; ponies had already started to dance. Across the room Violet spotted the princesses. Celestia was dressed in a flowing gown that had a shade of orange and yellow and she had a single sunflower behind her ear. Luna was the same, only her dress was black with a shade of midnight blue. She wore sapphire earrings and her skirt was shimmering with moonstones and sapphires.

“Girls! Over here!” called Luna. The group of friends walked over to greet the princesses.

“Princess Celestia! Princess Luna.” The CMC cried, bowing in respect to their countries rulers.

“Welcome Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Your sisters have told us so much about you.” said Celestia. The regal alicorn turned to look at the other ponies.

“All of you look so beautiful and handsome,” Celestia then turned to Twilight.

“Twilight. Luna and I have a surprise for you.”

“A surprise? What surprise?!” The purple alicorn asked.

The sisters giggled. “Come on over you two.”

Violet watched as two ponies came into view. One was a unicorn stallion and the other was an alicorn mare. The stallion was tall and buff, with a white coat and a blue striped mane and was wearing a purple and gold chestplate. The mare had a coral pink coat and her mane was striped yellow, purple and light pink. She wore a crown on top of her head and her dress was a simple baby blue and pink gown, but her abdomen was swollen. She was pregnant. Twilight lit up when she saw the two ponies and ran into their embrace.

“Cadence! Shining Armour!” she cried, hugging the ponies.

“Twilly!” said Shining Armour, returning her hug. The mare called Cadence and Twilight started doing this weird song and dance. “Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake, clap your hooves and do a little shake.”

“I thought you weren’t coming to the Gala this year.”

“And miss a chance to spend with my sister-in-law. Never.” Cadence scoffed. She then noticed everyone standing there in formal attire.

“You brought all your friends too!” Shining Armour exclaimed.

“And some new ones.” said Twilight as Comet and Violet stepped forward.

“Shining Armour, Cadence this is Violet-Rose. Violet this is my brother Shining Armour and his wife Princess Cadence.”

Violet did a small curtsy. “Nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too Violet.” said Shining Armour. The unicorn stallion turned the look at Comet. “Who’s this smart young colt?”

“My boyfriend.” Comet implied this by giving Violet a peck on the cheek. Violet the turned her attention to Cadence.
“You expecting?” she asked.

Cadence smiled and touched her swollen belly. “It’s my 10th month.” Violet was confused at first, but then she remembered that a pony’s generation period lasts eleven months.

“Girl or Boy?” she asked.

“I think it’s a Girl, but Shining here thinks it’s going to be a Boy,” Cadence whispered the rest in Violet’s ear. “I think he only wants a boy so he could have a personal trainee in the Royal Guard.”

“I heard that Cadee!” Shining Armour said, annoyed.

Everyone laughed and went their separate ways. Rainbow, Rarity and Twilight went to mingle with their crushes. Fluttershy took Discord into the gardens to have him meet her Canterlot animal friends. Violet and Comet just talked over stuff about each other’s interests.

Then a sudden realization hit Violet like a sledgehammer. Comet didn’t know about her human origin! How was he going to react if she told him that he had been dating a Human turned Pegasus? Would he leave her for hiding such a thing? Judging by her friend’s reactions when she met them, she knew that Comet would have the same reaction.

“Hey babe, I’m just going to the bathroom for a minute. Can you wait here, then we can go check out the food.” he asked.

“Sure.” said Violet. When Violet was waiting for her boyfriend, she was approached by a white unicorn stallion. At first she thought it was Shining Armour, but then she saw the stallion’s mane was blonde.

“What’s a pretty little thing doing sitting on her own?” he asked, in a posh tone.

“I’m waiting for someone.” Violet said sharply, wanting this stallion to clear off.

“I’m sure you have time. I’m Prince Blueblood, what’s your name?”

Violet’s eyes widened. Two weeks ago, Rarity had warned her about a stallion named Prince Blueblood and that he may seem charming, but he was as charming as a snake. Was this the stallion she was talking about?
“Violet-Rose- “

“Violet-Rose, what a pretty name for a pretty mare. Well Violet-Rose, will you be so kind as to company me tonight. I’m sure your friend can wait.” said Blueblood, taking Violet’s hoof.

Violet flinched as he started to drag her away for the table. “I have a coltfriend!” she spat, wanting to get as far away as possible from this guy. She was fifteen, this guy looked to be in his mid-twenties.

Violet felt the herge to vomit as Blueblood said. “I’m sure it’s not that serious. Come with me my dear.” His grip on her tightened as he dragged her away.

A million thoughts ran through Violet’s mind. She looked around the room for any of her friends, but they were nowhere in sight. Not even Discord, who towered over everypony like a giant. Then by some miracle she heard a familiar voice.

“Hey! What are you doing?!” Comet called, running over. Blueblood stopped in his tracks and faced the pegasus colt. Comet didn’t need to be told twice at what was going on when he saw the look of fear on his marefriends face.

“Violet, get behind me!” he snapped, pulling her away from that creep of a prince.

“Just who do you think you are! Miss Violet was just companying me on this evening.” Blueblood spat.

Comet gabbed a hoof in the prince’s chest. “I’m her coltfriend and I think you should back off before things start to get ugly!”

Blueblood sneered. “You? Her coltfriend? Please, a pretty mare deserves to be with somepony like me. I’m handsome, charming and royalty! She doesn’t need some lowly, common, nobody like yourself.”

That did it. Comet’s face went bright red and he slapped Blueblood on the face. All around, ponies were watching the fight. Violet could only cower as the tension grew.

“Who do you think you are, telling me that I don’t deserve Violet!” Comet shouted, his anger echoed off the walls.

“I am Prince Blueblood, nephew of Celestia and Luna. And you sir, will be locked up for striking royalty!” Blueblood sneered.

“YOU DO KNOW THAT SHE’S ONLY FIFTEEN!” Comet raged.

“I’M TWENTY-TWO AND I DON’T CARE HOW OLD SHE IS.”

Comet punched Blueblood in the face, knocking him to the ground and raising a gasp from the crowd. “YOU DISGUSTING WASTE OF A PONY. SHE’S FIFTEEN AND YOUR TWENTY-TWO! YOUR DISGUSTING!”

He kept beating up the helpless prince. Comet kicked Blueblood in the groin, causing a whimper out of the prince. “Nasty!”

He then spat on Blueblood’s face. But Blueblood wasn’t going down without a fight and tackled Comet. But the pegasus had the advantage of flight and quickly wriggled from Blueblood’s grip and took to the skies.

Blueblood had started to charge his horn with magic, but Comet jumped on him, throwing punches.

“Both of you stop it!” cried Violet, pulling Comet off Blueblood. But that didn’t stop Comet from giving Blueblood another good punch in the jaw. The prince fell to the ground and tasted blood. He felt around his mouth and felt one of his teeth missing.

“You knocked out my tooth,” he gurgled. “You’re in so much trouble for hitting the nephew of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna!”

Comet picked Blueblood up by the collar and glared at him. “I don’t care whose nephew you are, but I want you to stay away from my girlfriend! If I catch you near her again, I won’t hesitate to finish what I started. Are we clear Princy?” he said in a menacing tone. Blueblood gulped and nodded, knowing that he had lost.

“We’re clear.” he yelped as Comet roughly dropped him.

Blueblood pulled out a mirror and looked at his face. It was swollen and red, he had two black eyes and there was blood dripping from his mouth.

“My face! My beautifully handsome face!” The prince ran past everypony out the ballroom. Comet’s expression softened when his attention was directed at Violet.

“He didn’t hurt you, did he?” Violet slowly shook his head. She was mainly focused on her coltfriend’s condition. Comet’s face was also bruised and swollen. But he had one black eye and a cut on his cheek. His suit was dusty and lopsided; his tie was hanging loosely from around his neck. Violet helped him straighten his attire when a familiar group of ponies, and a couple of ones she didn’t know came running over.

“Violet! Comet! Are you guys okay? We heard shouting. What happened?” Twilight demanded.

“Blueblood happened, he was trying to get Violet to go with him.” Comet explained, grimly.

“BLUEBLOOD!” Rarity shrieked.

“Rarity, calm down. Don’t strain your voice darling.” said a unicorn stallion.

“Fancy Pants, if you only knew of the horrors I had to endure last year.” Rarity muttered.

“You won’t believe this but even after I told him that I have a coltfriend, he still tried to drag me away.” Violet said, straightening Comet’s suit.

A gasp rose from the group, Rarity looked ready to kill. Then from the gardens, Fluttershy and Discord flew over. “Is somepony hurt, we heard shouting…Oh my Faust!” they cried when they saw Comet.

“What happened?!” Discord demanded.

“Celestia’s twat of a nephew was pestering Violet. Even after I told him that she’s fifteen. Did I mention that this guy is TWENTY-TWO!” Comet roared.

Fluttershy’s mouth fell open.

“Where is he? I’ll pulverise him!” Rainbow Dash cried, smashing her fists together.

“I think Comet took care of it Dashie.” said a pegasus stallion that Violet recognised as Soarin. Then Celestia and Luna came over.

“Is everything okay? We saw Blueblood run out the ballroom?” Celestia asked. “Did something happen?” Luna asked.

“Yes something happened. Your lazy quack of a nephew tried to drag Violet away.” Discord explained.

The two sisters gasped.

Luna put her hoof to her forehead and groaned. “This is not the first time this has happened, sadly.” The night princess explained.

“What exactly happened?” Celestia asked, wanting answers.

“Well, I was waiting for Comet. Blueblood approached me and asked me to join him on this evening. I told him that I have a coltfriend, but he said ‘I’m sure it can’t be that serious.’ Then he grabbed me by the arm and tried to drag me away. That’s when Comet stepped in.” Violet explained.

Everyone’s eyes widened in horror and shock. “I gave him a warning to back off. But he said that I didn’t deserve Violet, so I slapped him and that escalated into us beating each other up. I even knocked out his tooth.” Comet explained.

“You knocked out his tooth?!” Rarity shrieked, but grinned at the same time.

“I see; we’ll see what we can do about Blueblood. Honestly, it’s like he uses his title of ‘Prince’ to get whatever he wants and any mare he likes.” Celestia groaned.

“Enjoy the rest of the party.” said Luna. The two sisters walked off, shaking their heads in disappointment.

“I hope I don’t get arrested.” said Comet, his injuries snapped better (curtesy of Discord).

“You won’t, the sisters aren’t like that and what you did was only a matter of defence.” Twilight said, patting Comet on the back.

When the scene cleared out, the Mane Six went their separate ways. Rainbow went to hang out with Soarin, Twilight talked with her family and Flash Sentry, Applejack hung out with Spike and the CMC and Rarity went to mingle with the high class ponies and Fancy Pants. Discord tapped Violet on the back. “Violet, can I talk to you?”

“Sure, excuse me for a minute Comet.”

The two friends walked a little way from the others. Discord whispered in Violet’s ear. “Okay here’s the deal. I want to perform the song before this night ends, but I have no idea what to do. I need some ideas.”

“Okay, let me think.”

Violet stroked her chin and thought. Suddenly her ears perked up. “I got it! She loves flowers right? And her animal friends?”

“Yeah, we we’re just in the garden when we heard the fight.” he said.

“Don’t remind me. But I have a plan, we just need a little help from Comet.” Violet looked over at her coltfriend.

“Hey Comet, can you come here for a minute?”

Once they were all in a huddle, Violet explained the plan.

“Okay, Comet I need you to keep Fluttershy busy for a few minutes, while Discord and I set up the garden. Got it! Three, two, one, go!” said Violet.

Comet zipped off to keep Fluttershy busy, while Violet and Discord snuck out to the gardens. Discord used his magic to create a table and two chairs with green velvet cushions. He placed a candle and plates and cutlery on either side. Violet talks to a group of birds and explained what they needed. The birds instantly understood and agreed to help with the song.

“Alright, now let’s go through what you’re going to say. When Comet brings Fluttershy over, you…”

“Bow slightly, take her hoof, lead her to the table, pull it out for her, wait for her to sit down and push it in?”

Discord demonstrated with Violet. “Great. Then what do you say to her?”

“Would you like soup or salad?”

“No, before that!”

“Oh right! You look lovely tonight!”

“Good, good. So after serving the soup or salad…”

“If she wants soup, ask if she wants salt, if salad, dressing.”

“And after that?”

“Give her the main course and tell her that she has beautiful eyes!”

“And after that?”

“Tell her that I greatly admire her and want to be her special some pony.”

“And then?”

“Dessert!”

Violet grinned at Discord. “Then what do you do after?”

Discord smiled. “You give the signal for the birds to start, then I’ll sing my song for her, in dance.”

He demonstrated a waltz.

“I think you’ve got it!” Violet said, nudging him in the side.

“Wanna practice the song again?” she asked the birds.

“Nah, we’re good.” they tweeted.

“Then I think we’re ready!”

“I’m not!” Discord protested, clutching his tail.

“What if she doesn’t like me? What if she hates me for the rest of my life? Ouch!” Violet had punched him in the side.

“Get a grip Discord. Of course she’ll like you!”

“How do you know?”

“Because she told…” She hung her head. “Fine,” She pointed to two of the birds. “You two go get Fluttershy while a take care of this nervous wreck.” The birds nodded and flew off.

Once they had left, Violet turned to the draconequus. “Look, even if it doesn’t work between you two at least you could still be friends.”

“But what if I mess up?” the draconequus squealed. “What if I do something stupid and she thinks I’m an idiot?!”

“You won’t mess up. Even if you do, Fluttershy won’t care. If it was Rarity, then that’s a different story. If you ask me, Flutters is crazy about you.”

He blinked at her. “You really think so?”

She shrugged. “It’s possible. Now pull yourself together and get into position!” she cried.

“Now,” Violet said. “Here is a last minute tip. No matter how tempted you are, do not kiss her on the first date! Unless she leans in first.”

Discord gulped. “Kiss? I hadn’t thought of that.”

“Well, don’t. Girls don’t like it when guys are two pushy, so it’s best to save the kissing for later.”

“But you kissed Comet on your first date!” Discord protested.

“Just because I got kissed on the first date, doesn’t mean you have to do the same. You don’t want to scare her off!”

“But I’ve never kissed anyone before! Maybe I should practice.”

Violet held up her hooves. “Hey, don’t look at me, Comet will murder you if you kissed me! Like I said, don’t worry about kissing or messing up. You just do what feels right. Just be…well, yourself.”

“I thought the point of this was so I could be less myself.”

“Well yeah, but the better version. Think back to that moment when you say all those things about Fluttershy and use that emotion when talking to her.”

“I can’t!”

“Don’t worry. Comet, the birds and I will be right over here coaching you.”

Discord’s ears perked up when he heard a soft voice, followed by the tweeting of birds and a stallion’s voice.

“What’s all this about?”

“She’s coming!” the draconequus choked. “I can’t do this! I’m not ready!”

“Yes, you are!” Violet said, flying up to lay a hoof on his shoulder. “You can’t hide your feelings forever. You’re making your move tonight!”

“I…! can’t!”

He cried out as she tugged his beard so he would look her in the eye.

“Look, you love this girl, right?”

“Y-yes,” he stammered.

“You want to hold her?”

“Yes.”

“Please her?”

“Yes!”

“Then what are you waiting for?” He straightened up.

“You’re right! I’m the Lord of Chaos! I took over Equestria in a day! if I can do that, I can face one pony!”

“Okay, not initially what I meant, but whatever works.” Violet ducked behind a peony bush, just in time. Fluttershy’s eyes grew big when she spotted Discord under the willow tree.

“What’s going on…?” Violet had to step on Discord’s tail. Once he had recovered from the pain, he bowed to the lovely pegasus.

“Fluttershy, my dear, dear friend! I hope you don’t mind, but I have prepared a little something to get away from all the loud and noisy ponies.”

“Oh well would you look at that, there are only two chairs!” Comet exclaimed. “Well, I just head back to the party and leave you two alone.”

Comet snickered and hastened into the bushes. “Wait!” Fluttershy whispered. “What’s going on here?”

Fluttershy looked at the set up. “But…candles! Flowers! What…?” She gasped. Did she tell him?

“Come on Fluttershy, I put a lot of effort into this. Please, sit!” He bowed to her and took her hoof, lightly kissing it.

“It is all for you, my dear.”

She blushed. “But what’s the occasion?”

“The occasion is us.” He pulled out her seat, waited for her to sit and pushed her in. “This is a thank you for all you’ve done for me…as well as an apology for the piñata incident…and, um…all the other incidents. Shall we?”

He sat down at the opposite chair.

“So far, so good,” Comet whispered to Violet.

“By the way, Fluttershy,” Discord said. “the salad is looking lovely tonight.”

He winced and Violet slapped her forehead.

“I mean, um…would you like some salad, dear?”

“Oh yes,” Fluttershy said with a smile. “That would be lovely.”

“So salad it is then!” A covered dish appeared in front of her. The lid rose to reveal a bowl of fresh lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes and croutons. “What kind of dressing, my dear?”

“Ranch, please,” Fluttershy replied. Her wish was granted and the draconequus summoned a bowl of paper for him to eat. Comet raised an eyebrow, but Violet whispered.

“Don’t question.” She then instructed the birds to start singing. Violet and Comet’s voice started to join in:

“I’ve been alone with you inside my mind…”

“What the…where is that music coming from?” Fluttershy looked around for the source. “My dear you must be hearing things.” He winked as the pegasi couple continued.

"And in my dreams I’ve kissed your lips a thousand times…”

“Tell me you heard that.”

“I sometimes see you pass out my door.”

“Hear what?” the draconequus shrugged, munching on his paper as if nothing was happening.

“Hello…is it me your looking for? I can see it your eyes…”

“But…what?”

Soon Fluttershy found herself staring into Discord’s red and yellow eyes.”

“I can see it in your eyes.”

He gave her a kind, adoring grin that made her heart pound furiously.

“You’re all I ever wanted, and my arms are open wide, ‘Cause you know just what to do…”

“Fluttershy,” Discord whispered, leaning towards her.

“And I want to tell you so much…”

“Yeah?” she said absentmindedly

“I love you.”

“Lionel Richie does it again,” Violet smirked.

“Fluttershy,” Discord repeated. “I was wondering…would you…?”

Their mouths dropped open as they watched with anticipation. Suddenly, the draconequus moved away. “Would you like your potatoes mashed of baked?”

“Damn it!” Violet grumbled.

Fluttershy faced Discord. “Mashed, please.” As they moved on to their main course, the two ponies were starting to get bored.

“They haven’t said anything for seven minutes!” Comet exclaimed.

“When is he going to ask her already?”

“Hush,” Violet whispered, silencing him. “I got this.”

She emerged from the bushes and waved her hooves to get Discord’s attention. When he finally spotted her, she gestered over to Fluttershy, urging him to make his move. He turned to his date and gulped.

“Um, Fluttershy?”

She looked up from her half-eaten potatoes. “Yes?”

He leaned his elbow onto the table.

“Has any pony ever told you that you have…um…?”

He glanced at Violet for help. She pointed to her head. “That you have…” Discord continued. “…hair?” Violet smacked herself in the forehead.

Fluttershy simply raised an eyebrow. “Yes, I believe they have.”

“Well, uh…” he stammered. “Have they ever told you that it’s…pink?” The human groaned and shook her head.

“Pretty!” he blurted. “I meant pretty!”

Fluttershy looked down at her hooves, grinning shyly. “You…think I’m pretty?”

He sighed with relief. “Yes! Very pretty!”

“Oh. No pony’s ever called me pretty before.”

“Well, they should have. It’s not just your hair. You also have pretty…” He looked to Violet, who gestured to her eyes.

“Eyes! Yes, you have…” He locked his gaze and sighed dreamily. “Pretty eyes.”

Fluttershy beamed. “Thank…”

“In fact everything about is pretty! Beautiful, even!”

She met his eyes again. “Beautiful?” He reached out and gently took her hooves.

“I wish I could find a better word, but until then, ‘beautiful’ is the best I can do.”

“I’m really flattered…”

“I love you!” The words were out before he could stop it. Fluttershy squeaked in shock and Discord covered his mouth once he realized his mistake. He looked too Violet and Comet, who were equally shocked, but the mare urged him to continue. He swallowed hard and summoned all the courage he could muster.

“Yes, I... l-l-love y-y-y-you.” He could not remember ever being tongue-tied.

“I think you’re…amazing. Not only you are ravishing, but also sweet and good…”

“But I thought that kind of stuff made you sick,” Fluttershy said suddenly.

“It did. Before I met you, I had no purpose but to corrupt the world. You’ve shown me that there’s more to life then chaos. You’re my first friend…and first love. I know this must be shocking for you, but I have to let you know. I understand you may never want me in the way I want you, and that I am not worthy of some pony as alluring as you…”

“Discord, I…never knew you felt this way.”

“Well, I do. You probably hate me now, don’t you?”

“Hate you? Whatever gave you that idea?”

“I don’t know, maybe because of all those incidents involving me hurting other stallions. You looked so upset with me. You seem to get upset every time I use magic!”

“Discord, I have no problem with your magic. Sure, I was disappointed in you when you turned that stallion into a piñata, but I love your magic.”

He blinked. “You do?”

She blushed. “Last week, when you helped me clean my cottage, helping me get Violet settled in and don’t get started on this lovely dinner you prepared. I wish you could do more things rather than pranking ponies and changing everything.”

“Changing everything?”

“Remember when you turned my flower garden into lollipops?”

“Oh,” he chuckled nervously. “That.”

“It’s not bad as I make it sound. I just wish you could learn to appreciate the natural beauty of the world.”

“I do appreciate natural beauty.” He vanished from his seat and appeared on one knee beside her. “I wouldn’t change a single thing about you.” She tried to glance away, but Discord pulled her head to face him. A glimmer of hope in the draconequus’ eye. Thinking he was never going to get this chance again, he took her hooves in his hands.

“Fluttershy,” he said slowly, “I need to ask you something, before I chicken out.”

She met his eyes. “Yes?”

“I know this is going to sound cheesy, but…” He took a deep breath. “will you be my special some pony?”

For a while, Fluttershy could not find the voice to answer. She saw the hope and admiration in his face and did not want to disappoint him. She could not deny her herself anymore and she nodded.

“You will?” Discord asked excitedly.

“Yes,” she uttered.

“Yes?”

“Yes!” Violet cried.

He pulled her into a passionate embrace. “Oh, thank you, my dear! You have made me the happiest creature alive!”

Violet, Comet and the birds were about the cheer when Discord snapped his fingers and a slow melody started playing.

“Discord…” Fluttershy began. Discord put his finger to her lips and held out his paw.

“May I have this dance?"

Fluttershy smiled as he led her out into a clearing. “I would love to.”

Comet and Violet changed bushes and followed them. The music still playing, Discord led Fluttershy into a slow dance. Then a low haunting voice started singing. Violet was shocked to find that it was coming from Discord’s mouth.

Chaos of the Night

Night time, falls and wins my adoration,
Chaos stirs from, my imagination,
Listen as the trees create music in the breeze.

Inside the ballroom, the haunting tune met the ears of thousands of ponies. The orchestra stopped playing and looked at each other wondering where that music was coming from. The song met the ears of the princesses and the Mane Five. “What is that music?” Twilight asked.

“Whoever it is, is magnificent.” Rarity chimed.

Pinkie listened carefully to the music. “It’s coming from the garden!” The pink party pony sped out the door.

Soon all the guests were out in the garden, looking for the source of the music. The Mane Five, their partners, the princesses and hundreds of guest’s mouths fell open to see who was singing.
“Discord!”

Slowly as you, dream a land of splendour,
Take the chance to, live a life of grandeur,
Appearances deceive, look me in the eye, believe
I do not intend to cause you any fright
As I create the chaos of the night

Close your eyes and I'll cure you of your darkest dreams
Purge your thoughts of the beast you knew before
Spread your wings, let your feelings come alive
And together we will both sky dive

Violet and Comet chuckled as Fluttershy gave Discord an odd look.

On the other side of the gardens, also watching were hundreds of high class ponies. Twilight’s mouth was wide open, same as the rest of the ponies.
Some of the mares were even fanning themselves at the sound of his voice.

Softly, deftly, chaos shall surround you
Hear it, feel it, closing in around you
Open up the door, and you'll find out what's in store
As you turn away from Harmony and light
And relish in the chaos of the night

The hearts of many ponies soared as Discord led Fluttershy up into the night sky, singing a particularly high note.

Let your thoughts roam, devise itself a whole new world
Memories, forget them, they're in the past
Let your heart take you where it longs to be
Only then will you belong to me

Fluttershy felt her heart melt as Discord caressed her cheek on that last note. Rainbow Dash could only watch in shock. Part of her wanted to fly over and strangle him, but Fluttershy showed no signs of resistance.

Floating, flying, dancing here together
Hold me, love me, dearest, darling treasure

Mouths dropped a second time. Had they really heard Discord, the Lord of all things Chaos, call that delicate little pegasus…a treasure?
It was beyond even Celestia’s understanding. Only Cadence, Violet and Comet knew that this was not a fluke.
They all watched as Discord ran his fingers through Fluttershy’s hair.

Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in
To the power of the chaos I incite
As I create the chaos of the night

He and Fluttershy spun around in the air for a bit, listening to the music. Discord caressed her face and started to float down with her as he sang the final chord.

You alone can make my heart take flight
As I create the chaos of the night

They stood there in silence, until Discord surprised everyone by pressing his lips to Fluttershy’s. He caught the look of shock on Violet’s face and realised his mistake. He pulled away, embarrassed of his mistake.
“I…I’m so sorry,” he spluttered. “Just the spur of the moment, I…”
Fluttershy softly placed her hoof to his lips, quieting him down. She lifted her face towards him and returned her lips to his own. Discord’s eyes widened in confusion as their lips met again and then he slid them shut, wrapping his arms around her and ran his claws into her mane. He expected her to pull away, but she showed no signs of resistance.

Violet and Comet climbed out of the bushes and approached the couple, who pulled away just in time to see them. “Thank you!” Discord said. “This never would have been possible without you two!”

“Aw, it was nothing,” Violet beamed.

“It certainly was something! Why, if I hadn’t told you my feelings and asked you for advice, I’d still be on my couch, wallowing in agony!”

“Wait,” Fluttershy muttered. “You told Violet you had feelings for me? I told Violet I had feelings for you!”

“What?” he turned accusingly toward Violet.

“You knew all along that she liked me in return and you didn’t tell me?!”

“Hey!” Violet shouted defensively. “Both of you wanted it to be kept a secret,”

Then a sudden realisation hit her. “Um…Discord, have you thought about what you’re going to tell the others?”

“YOU DON’T NEED TO TELL US ANYTHING, CAUSE WE’RE STANDING RIGHT HERE!” cried a voice.

The Quattro exchanged nervous glances and slowly turned around to see the entire ballroom staring at them, the Mane Five and the Princesses were up front, glaring at them.

“Ah!” Discord sputtered.

“Oh dear…” Fluttershy whimpered, seeing the shocked and angry face on Rainbow’s face.

Violet felt her face go bright red. “How long have you all been standing there?!”

The group up front stepped forward. Celestia gave Discord a stern look. “I must say, this is quite an achievement for you Discord. I never imagined that one day, my old enemy, the Lord of Chaos, would fall in love.”

Her expression changed into a sweet and supportive smile. “And what a joyful day it is.”

Discord perked up, wondering if he had heard Celestia right. “You’re…not going to punish me?”

“Punish you? No, in fact I am very proud of you. I brought you out of stone because I thought you needed to be taught the Magic of Friendship, but you have achieved something far greater than Friendship. You have found Love.”

Discord blushed and rubbed the back of his neck. “Well,” he gestured over to Violet and Comet. “They gave me a hand.” He patted Violet on the head.

Twilight stepped forward. “Honestly, I never thought you were a singer. Did you write that song?”

“With Fluttershy in mind.” he implied this by giving his new marefriend a kiss on the cheek.

“You wrote that song…for me?” Fluttershy said.

“Been working on it for over a month.”

“Discord, it was beautiful. No pony has ever written me a song before. That has got to be the sweetest thing you’ve ever done for me.” She flung her hooves around him in an embrace.

“So…does that mean it’s okay for us to be together?” he asked. The group all exchanged glances, with smile on their faces.

“After hearing that song, it just proves how much you love her. So…you are in the clear?” Luna said.

“You serious?”

“I might take some getting used to, but your still in the clear.” Celestia explained. Discord cried out in joy and kissed Fluttershy again, making everyone feel awkward.

“We’ll leave you to alone to enjoy the rest of the Gala.” The sun princess said. Violet walked away with Comet to re-join the dance floor. The Gala ended at 2 am. By then, everypony had left and those staying in the palace were going up to bed. Discord walked Fluttershy to her room. “Thank you for tonight, Discord. Goodnight.” Fluttershy whispered. “Goodnight,” he replied, giving her a peck.

They did not break eye contact until the door was shut. Discord leapt into the air. “Yes!”

“Well if it isn’t the lovesick monkey,” Violet chuckled as she came out of her room wearing in a purple dressing gown. “How does it feel to finally be with the pony you love?”

Weeping tears of joy, Discord picked her up and hugged her. “You really are a pal, aren’t you?”

“Hey, it was no biggie.”

“No biggie? I have the most beautiful pony in the world because of you! You know, now that that Fluttershy and I are together, the position for my best friend is open. You interested?” Violet pretended to think about it. “Sure, why not?”

“Make that two best friends!” said a voice. Violet spun around and saw Comet. The pegasus stallion flew up and gave Discord a hoof bump. “Count me as your first guy friend.”

Violet giggled. “We’re like the three Amigos.”

They all said their goodnights and when to their separate rooms. As Violet drifted off to sleep she thought this was the best day of her life. But little did she know of what her future had for her.

Author's Note

I wanted to have the entire Gala scene into one chapter, so this chapter is longer then the rest. 'Chaos of the Night' is a parody song of 'Music of the Night' by Disneyfanatic2364.

'Hello' belongs to Lionel Richie.

I do not own either song nor am I claiming that I do

Times we are Changeling

Violet found herself in an open field, her mother was pushing her on a swing. They were laughing and giggling, but then Violet felt a cold chill on her back and the sky went dark.

She jumped off the swing and faced her mother, but her mother was gone, instead was a pegasus mare draped in a green cloak. She had her hood up and was cradling something in her hooves.

Then a strong gust of wind blew the hood back and Violet was shocked to see the mare had a butter coloured coat and light pink hair.

“Fluttershy?” she asked.

The mare took no notice. Violet started to approach the mare, but was shocked when the mare started screaming. “No! Don’t take her! Don’t take my baby! Take me instead!”

Violet felt her stomach churn. Somepony was trying to take this mares baby. She had to stop whoever it was. But for some reason, she couldn’t move. Violet watched in horror as a large swarm of black swallowed the mare up.

“NOOOO!” Violet cried as the swarm advanced on her. She screamed as her world turned to darkness. A low evil, distinctly feminie voice started to cackle. Then out of nowhere a pair of glowing green eyes appeared and shot straight at Violet.

The last thing she heard was her own screams.

Violet woke up with a jolt and coated in sweat. It was a dream.

She looked up at the clock. It read 3:32 am.

She groaned in annoyance. Ever since she came to Equestria, these nightmares kept coming. All involved her mother, that swarm of black and that evil cackle. After calming down, she drifted back to sleep, but something told her that these dreams were linked to her mother’s disappearance. When she woke it was 6 am, Fluttershy was still asleep. Violet decided that these dreams must have something to do with her mother, but what?

She then remembered Twilight lived in a library and must have something on the manner.

Quiet as a mouse, she put on her treasured scarf and tip-toed past her sleeping roommates. She left a note on the door telling them where she’s gone and exited the front door. The streets of Ponyville were silent, apart from the ponies walking to work.

Violet navigated her way to Twilight’s library in a matter of minutes.

She politely knocked on the door and Twilight answered. “Violet! What a surprise! Come in, Spike made eggs on toast.” The princess exclaimed.

Violet sat down at the dining table with Twilight and Spike. Twilight served her a plate of eggs and buttered toast.

“So, why are you here?” she asked. “Is it those nightmares again?”

Violet could only nod. “Ah, so spill. What happened this time?”

Violet explained her nightmare, Spike and Twilight listened with wide eyes. “Woah…so you keep seeing your mother, this mare who looks like Fluttershy, a swarm of black and this evil mares voice.” Twilight said.

“That pretty much sums it up.”

“And you think it has something on your mother’s disappearance.” Twilight asked.

Violet looked down at her hooves. “Yes.”

Twilight got up from her chair and started searching through books. “I’ll see what I can find.”

The alicorn started to flip through book after book. Violet just watched, eating her eggs.

“Spike, can you come and help?” Twilight asked. The baby dragon got up and started to look through the shelves.

“Twilight! I think I found something.” he said, holding up a book titled, ‘History of Equestria, Past 50 years or Less’.

“Huh…not what I was hoping for, but it’ll do.” Twilight set the book down with her magic and flipped through it.

Violet and Spike crowded around to see. “No, no, no,” Twilight muttered, flipping the pages. Then she stopped. “Huh…The Rainbow of Light?” She started to read the chapter out loud. “The Rainbow of Light is a powerful magical artefact which was created after the Elements of Harmony disappeared. It was created by Princess Celestia, but was left in the care of the Moochick. But 30 years ago, three human children came to Equestria. The Rainbow of Light was given to the eldest of the three, a girl named Megan. They used it to expel evil from our lands with the help of eight ponies; Firefly, Surprise, Sparkler, Apple Cider, Orange Seed, Rainbow Blaze, Posey and Twilight Velvet,”

Twilight jumped back and stared at the book. “MY MOTHER!” she cried.

“What?” Violet asked.

“Twilight Velvet is my Mom; I wonder why she never told me about humans.”

“Strange, keep reading.” Twilight cleared her throat and continued reading.

“The children kept coming back to Equestria as the Rainbow of Light is the only way back to Equestria, but after a 10 years, only the boy came back, for he had lost his sisters and wanted to be with Posey, as did she. It is rumoured that the boy became a pony and a filly was born from the two when they were twenty-five, but this has never been confirmed as Posey and the boy disappeared from Equestria 10 years ago, taking the Rainbow of Light and supposed filly with them. Posey’s twin sister, Rosey was never the same again…”

Twilight flipped over the next page, but it was gone. “That’s funny? The page is missing?”

“So…I wasn’t the first human to come into Equestria.” Violet said, rereading that one line.

“Apparently so, what gets me is that Celestia and my Mom never mentioned this to me.” Twilight said.

“But this doesn’t explain the swarm of black.” Violet said, reminding Twilight.

“I think I have a hunch, but can you give me more detail on the swarm?” Violet thought, trying to remember what she saw.

“Well, I can remember green eyes but no pupils, insect-like wings and a larger creature with long cobweb hair. I think that is who was making the cackle.” she explained. Twilight and Spike had turned white. Twilight felt a sudden realisation come over her.

“Violet…I think I know what you’re seeing,” she shuddered.

“Really? What are those things?” Violet asked, but instead of an answer she got.

“You have to leave Equestria and never come back.”

“What?” Violet asked, sharply.

“You heard me! You have to go back. It’s not safe for you anymore.” Twilight shouted.

“It’s not safe for me to go back to the Human World, I’m homeless there and your telling me to go back to a world where I’m living a wasteland!” Violet yelled.

“YOU’LL BE SAFE THERE!”

“SAFE FROM WHAT! THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS TELL ME WHAT THE BLACK SWARM IS!”

“I CAN’T TELL YOU, YOU DON’T BELONG HERE. EVEN IF DISCORD DID TURN YOU INTO A PONY, YOU’LL NEVER BE ONE OF US!” The words were out of Twilight’s mouth before she realised what was saying.

She shrank back when she saw the hurt, angry and disappointed look on Violet’s face. “Violet…I…” she sputtered.

“No I understand perfectly,” Violet whispered in a cold tone. “You’re just trying to get me to go back, you guys were never really my friends, were you!”

“Violet, we are your friends. Those things I said, I didn’t mean any of it.”

“You meant every single word,” Violet snapped. “God I’m such a fool for believing that I was actually welcome here.”

She then ran out the door and a flurry of tears. Twilight and Spike ran after her. “Violet! Come back!” they cried.

“LEAVE. ME. ALONE!” Violet screamed, a multi-coloured light emitted from her chest, blasting them backwards into the library wall. Violet started running at top speed, crying and screaming. Twilight tried to follow, but lost sight of her. She collapsed to the ground in tears.

“Sweet Celestia, what have I done.” she sobbed.

Spike sent letters to the rest of the Mane Six, informing them that Violet had run off. In seconds, they all came running, even Comet was there making Twilight feel even more guilty. “What happened!” he demanded.

“I yelled at her and she got mad and ran off in the direction of the Forest.”

Everyone paled at this news. “You better not be talking about the Everfree Forest.” he said.

“I’m afraid so.”

Comet instantly ran the direction of the Everfree Forest, the rest following behind him. They all stopped at the entrance to the dark forest.

“Does she even know of the dangers in this place?” Rainbow demanded.

Twilight hung her head.

Comet started pacing. “No, no, no! What if she gets lost, or eaten, or killed!”

“Comet, calm down!” Applejack cried.

“CALM DOWN! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN CALM DOWN?! MY MAREFRIEND IS SOMEWHERE IN THIS FOREST NOT KNOWING WHAT COULD BE LURKING IN THOSE TREES!”

He yelped as Discord picked him up by the tail. “Comet, listen to me. I understand that your freaking out, but now’s not the time to panic,” he dropped him onto ground. “We need a plan.”

“Let’s slit up so we can cover more ground.” Pinkie chimed.

“Good idea,” They all crowded into a huddle.

“Okay here’s the drill; Twilight, Rainbow you two scan the forest from the sky. “AJ, Rarity and Pinkie, you three go check the left side of the forest. Fluttershy, Comet and I will do the right. Any sign of her, send out green sparks, if you’re in trouble, red. Spike, you stay here in town in case she comes back. Meet back at the library in an hour, got it!” Discord instructed.

“Got it!” they all said, splitting up into their separate groups.

Somewhere deep in the forest, Violet was running. The voices in her head were ringing.

“I’ll never leave you, honey.”

“Your dad was a hero, remember that.”

“Oh Violet, did you really think I would ever be with you.”

“I’m off to pick up your birthday cake sweetie, I’ll be back in an hour.”

Lies. They were all lies. And she was a fool to believe them! She finally stopped and collapsed on the ground and sobbed into her hooves. Her scarf had fallen off a while back, she didn’t bother to go back for it. She looked up at the dark trees towering over her. Violet then realized that she did not know where she was. How could she have been so stupid? She had been so intent on getting as far away from Twilight as possible that she had not been paying attention to where she was going. What was this place? It looked so unnatural and spooky. Everything about the forest gave her chills. She considered flying above the trees to find a way out, but she was so tired she just curled up into a ball. She wanted to go home. She wanted answers. She wished that her mother was there. “Violet?” She looked up as a familiar voice entered her ears.
No, it couldn’t be?

“Violet?” it called again.

She couldn’t believe it. “Mom?”

She turned in the direction of the voice, seeing a figure emerge from the trees. It stepped into the light, revealing it to be exactly who she thought it was. “Violet, thank goodness!”

The teenager stood up. “MOM!”

Overjoyed, she rushed to her mother and nuzzled her head against her. Daphne wrapped her arms around her and gently stroked her hair.

“I missed you so much!” Violet exclaimed. “How did you know it was me?”

“You look just like your father, even as a pony.”

Her eyes shot open in confusion. “What are you talking about?”

“You have a lighter coloured coat to his own, but you have my beautiful green eyes.”

Violet shrugged it off but then grew suspicious. “Wait. How did you get here?”

“I came on the rainbow of course.” She looked up at her mother. “You mean the Rainbow of Light?”

Daphne’s smile wavered. “Yes, now let’s get you home. Your father’s worried sick.”

Violet was about to follow, but paused. “Did you say ‘Dad’ was worried?”

“Of course honey, he’s your father. He cares about you.”

Her eyes widened and she slowly backed away from the woman. Something wasn’t right. She narrowed her eyes at her. “You’re not my mom.”

“What are you talking about, sweetie? Of course, I’m your mother.”

“No you’re not.”

“You’ve been through a lot, sweetheart. Come with me and your questions will be answered…”

“My Dad died two years ago.”

The imposter stopped in her tracks and glared at Violet. “You humans are smarter then you look.”

A green light enveloped her and the woman transformed into the ghastliest creature, Violet had ever seen. She was in the shape of an alicorn, but her wings were insect-like, her horn was like an antler and her legs were like swiss cheese. Her sleek body was black and her messy blue hair was like cobwebs. On her head was a small crown. Violet knew that this was the thing from her dreams. The owner of the voice.

“Who are you?!”

The creature smirked. “I am Queen Chrysalis, ruler of the Changelings and soon all of Equestria. And you’re the offspring of that meddlesome boy and his little mare friend!”

Her horn glowed and Violet tried to make a run for it, but a sticky green substance was spattered on her hooves, rooting her to the spot.

“It’s been so long since a human has been in Equestria,” Chrysalis mused, circling the girl.

“How did you know?” Violet inquired.

“One of my scouts saw Discord turn you into a pony.”

She lifted the girl’s chin. “The resemblance between you and your parents is uncanny, except your purple.”

Violet wrenched her head away. “What are you talking about, my parents never set foot in Equestria!”

The changeling threw her head back in a laugh. “I see! They didn’t tell you, did they?”

“Didn’t tell me what?”

“Interesting?”

“Shut up and get me out of this!”

“Ah, yes. You are just as stubborn as your parents. Tell me, did they tell you about our little encounter thirty years ago?”

Violet said nothing.

“I didn’t think so. Well, my dear, the arrival of your aunts and father was an interesting development for me. They were given the Rainbow of Light by that foolish Moochick. Even if they did defeat many villains, but they had no clue on what they were in for.”

"I learned of the Rainbow when your father came back into Equestria. He was in mourning as his sisters were killed in an accident and wanted to get away from everything. Posey was the only one who cared for him and Princess Celestia made him a pony, as a result…you were born.”

“WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!” Violet shrieked.

“Your just as annoying as your mother. When you were four, I had started to make my move. I took your fathers form and told Posey that he had to tell his family that he was okay. But your mother found out a way to stop me and Celestia said that you had to go to your world, to keep you safe. Oh the things parents do for their children, it’s disgusting! I thought Celestia destroyed the rainbow, but I was wrong. It fused with your soul instead. Now you’re here, I can use your power to travel between worlds, as well as find food for my subjects.”

“Why are you telling me this?”

“So you know your past, before I destroy you.”

“Wait, what?” she shrieked as the green ooze inched up her legs.

“Once we have successfully travelled to the human world,” Chrysalis explained, “you won’t be of any use to us. That substance will encase your body completely and will suffocate you in a matter of minutes! Don’t worry. I’ll tell your friends what happened to you.”

“You’re sick!” Violet cried.

“If that’s what you consider an insult, it’s a feeble attempt. Moth! Cobweb!” Two changelings Violet’s size appeared at their Queens side. “Make sure she does not escape.”

One of them buzzed something in her ear. “Yes, you may feed on her. She won’t last long anyway.” The lieutenants cackled and hovered beside Violet. Chrysalis’ horn and she turned into Violet.

“I’ll be sure to give your friends a proper goodbye,” she said in the girl’s voice. Violet tried to yank herself free as her double took to the skies, cackling maliciously.

“You leave my friends out of this!” she shouted.

“You monster!” As she squirmed, the ooze reached the end of her legs. It would only be a matter of time before it would close at her head.

Power of a Human Pegasus

“Violet!” Applejack called as she and Rarity trudged down the path. “Violet, are you out here?”

“Violet!” Pinkie shouted, bouncing through the forest while Rainbow and Twilight flew over.

Neither of them was having any luck finding their friend. Twilight fell to the ground. “This is all my fault, some Princess of Friendship I am.”

“GUYS! OVER HERE!” called Comet. Everyone came running in the direction of the call. Comet held up a familiar purple and green scarf.

“Violet’s scarf!” Fluttershy cried.

“Then she’s got to be around here somewhere!” Discord said, practically tearing the forest apart. Those with wings flew back up into the sky and scanned the forest.

“There!” Rainbow pointed.

Sure enough, the human turned pegasus was hovering slightly above the trees.

“Violet!” Twilight exclaimed and tackled her to the ground in a hug. “I’m so, so sorry that I yelled at you before, I was just trying to protect you.”

Violet snickered. “It’s okay, Twilight.”

“Geez dude!” Discord cried as he, Fluttershy and Comet joined them on the ground. “Don’t scare us like that!”

Pinkie hopped into view. “Yay, your found her!”

“I’m going to get the others.” As the pegasus zoomed into the sky, Violet wriggled from Twilight’s grip. “I’m sorry I ran off,” she said, batting her eyes.

“It’s mostly my fault,” the princess insisted.

“Violet!” Rarity shouted as she came out of the trees, followed by Rainbow Dash and Applejack. “Thank goodness you’re safe!”

“Violet! Are you okay? You’re not hurt are you?” Comet asked.

“I’m fine, though being in this forest has made me realise that Twilight’s right. Discord, please send me home. My old home…”

Everyone blinked in surprise. “What?”

“Yes, I need to get back to my mom, she’s probably worried sick.”

Discord eyes widened. “But your mom’s…”

“You going to send me home or what!”

“Are you feeling alright babe?” Comet asked, confused.

“Of course I’m fine, now is someone going to send me back or what.”

Discord narrowed his eyes and smirked. “You really want to go back to living on the streets?”

‘Violet’ went pale and uncomfortable. “What do you mean streets?!”

“I’m sending you back alright, back to the Changeling Hive!”

“Hey!” the girl cried out as he picked her up by the tail. “Put me down, you fool!”

“You really got to work on your acting skills, Chrysalis.”

“Chrysalis?” every pony gasped. The imposter narrowed her eyes and transformed back into the queen of the changelings.

“Nice to see you again, Dissy dear.”

“A pleasure,” Discord groaned in disgust.

“You know her?” Fluttershy questioned, shivering.

“We crossed paths once.”

“That was before you turned into a fluffy do-gooder,” Chrysalis taunted. Her ears perked up and she turned to Fluttershy.

“What’s this? Oh, how precious! The Lord of Chaos had fallen in love with a wimpy, little pegasus!” She yelped has he shook her.

“You insult her one more time and your toast! Literally! And for your information, Violet was living on the streets before she came to Equestria, what have you done with her?”

“The pony-human? She’s alive, for now.” It was now Comet who looked scared.

“No…” His face then changed to a look of anger. “What. Have. You. Done. With. My. Marefriend?!”

“She’s fine.”

Discord gritted his teeth. “If you hurt her…”

“You’ll do what? Kill me in front of your girlfriend? Ha! That would be impossible. You think I would have to come without a backup plan?"

She put her hoof to her mouth and whistled. A loud buzz filled the air.

Every pony looked up to see an army of changelings swarming towards them. Discord was so surprised that he dropped the queen on her head. He lifted his fingers to snap, but they were frozen in place as Chrysalis blasted them with ooze.

He tried the other hand, but she was too quick for him. “Forget it!” he said defiantly. “I don’t need to snap my fingers!”

Without warning, Discord was thrown back into a tree by the queen’s magic. “Discord!” Fluttershy cried, flying to his side.

He groaned as he lifted his head. The blow had knocked him unconscious. Fluttershy darted her eyes at Chrysalis. “How dare you?!”

The queen only laughed. “If we can’t feast on the human world, then we will feast on you instead! And this time, Cadence and Shining Armour won’t be here to save you!”

She looked up at the swarm. “Help yourselves, my loyal subjects! But the draconequus is mine!”

The insect-like creatures had the ponies surrounded while their leaders approached Discord. Fluttershy held his head protectively.

“Don’t you touch him!” she spat.

“And what can you do?” Chrysalis cackled. “You have no magic, no defences!”

She sighed contently. “Oh keep hovering over him. Your emotion is practically leaping into my stomach!”

Fluttershy nudged her love gently. “Discord, wake up!”

“Yes, continue! I can feel myself getting stronger by the second!”

“Please, wake up! Discord!”

The ooze was now up to her neck. Her guards were amusing themselves by turning into her loved ones repeatedly. She could feel herself growing weaker as they fed off her.

I have to get out of here, but what can I do? Any moment now, she would be completely covered. Before now she had never given much thought into dying. Would it be painful? Would her parents be waiting for her at the pearly gates? If heaven did exist, that is.

She then remembered what Chrysalis had told her. Had the Rainbow of Light really fused into her soul? Then she remembered the multi-coloured light that emitted from her chest when she told Twilight to leave her alone. Was that it?

The light had pushed Twilight and Spike back into the library, so maybe the same would work against the guards. But how would she activate it? She tried to remember how she felt when it first happened. She had been thinking of her friends and family. That must be it!

She closed her eyes in concentration and let all her thoughts into her mind. She thought of her friends; Discord, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Comet Blitz. She then thought of her mother and wished she was there to comfort her. She had always known what to do. She remembered what she had said when Violet had been bullied at school:

“Don’t you mind what they say, honey. Your special, more than you could believe. What they think of you does not matter. What does matter is how much your father and I love you.”

A tear fell down her cheek.

Suddenly, a powerful feeling welled up inside her. When she opened her eyes, the guards were shocked to see that they had turned white. The familiar multi-coloured light emitted from her chest and expanded, breaking her prison and pushing the changelings back and knocking them cold. Violet blinked when her eyes returned too normal and glanced around. It had worked. Then she remembered her friends were in danger and launched herself into the air.

The changelings had bound Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie together in green goo, while Chrysalis had encased Fluttershy, Comet and the still unconscious draconequus into a cocoon.

“You won’t get away with this!” Rainbow cried, kicking furiously.

“Scream all you want!” the queen cackled. “No pony can hear you!”

“Except me!”

Chrysalis gasped as Violet landed in front of her. “How did you escape?”

“Doesn’t matter. Now release my friends or you’ll have to face my power that you foolishly told me about!”

She laughed. “You humans really are amusing!”

She shot a beam at her, Violet dodged it. “Come and get me, ugly!”

“Why, you little…” She fired again, but the teenager avoided her shots easily.

“You shoot like a girl!” Violet sneered, sticking her tongue out.

Her taunting distracted her long enough for Chrysalis to hit her. Violet cried out as she was knocked into a tree. She fell limply to the ground. The queen of the changelings laughed in triumph.

“Yes, amusing, but also completely useless.” Violet struggled to get up, but she was so weak. For a moment, she thought she was done for, but then a thought occurred to her. She faced the changeling defiantly.

“If humans were so useless, then how did my parents manage to defect you in the first place?” Chrysalis stopped in her tracks, fear flickering on her face.

“They got lucky! I thought you be a challenge like them, but you really are worthless!”

“Then why are you so intent on killing me?” She paused again. “What is it about me that you find so threatening?”

Chrysalis shook her head. “You are no threat to me!”

Violet thought back to what she had done a couple of minutes ago and realized she had done the same to Twilight. What had that been all about? Did Chrysalis know the answer? She then decided that enough was enough and slid her eyes shut.

“Quit stalling!” Chrysalis bellowed. “It’s time to meet your fate, but before that, I’ll let you watch your friends suffer.”

Eye still shut, Violet gritted her teeth. “No one hurts my friends!”

Her eyes snapped open as they turned white. “No one!”

Every pony gasped as a pulse of rainbow light surged out of her body.

“No!” Chrysalis cried. “Not again!”

The light hit the queen and the other changelings hard, sending them hurdling out of the forest and back to the hive. The green substance disintegrated, setting the ponies free. Discord cried out as his head hit the ground. He looked around in time to see the light die down and Violet’s eyes return too normal.

“What happened?” he asked, rubbing his head. “Oomph!”

Fluttershy had flung her hooves around his neck. “I thought I lost you!” His eyes widened as she abruptly pressed her lips against his and then sighed contently.

Comet practically tackled Violet to the ground into an embrace, sobbing into her blonde mane. “I thought I lost you too.” he sobbed.

Violet silenced him by pressing her lips to his own and sighed.

“How did you do that?” Applejack marvelled as the couple broke away.

“I thought humans couldn’t do magic,” Rarity said. Violet shrugged.

“They don’t. This hasn’t happened before today. But Chrysalis mentioned that this ‘Rainbow of Light’ fused with my soul.”

Comet groaned, rubbing his head. “Okay, this is giving me a head ache. Some pony had better have answers!”

“I think I can explain.”

Every pony looked up to see Princess Celestia hovering above them, Spike at her side. As they floated down, everypony, including Discord bowed.

“We meet again, Violet,” she said.

“Yeah,” Violet uttered, pawing the ground awkwardly.

“Now, I’m sure you all have many questions,” The princess lifted Violet’s chin and examined the girl. “It’s incredible how much you resemble your mother, despite being different colours, but you have her emerald eyes.”

“You knew my mother?”

“And your father.”

“Yeah, Chrysalis said that my parents came to Equestria, but she also said that this ‘Rainbow of Light’ fused with my soul. What is it?”

“Yes, I think the best way to explain is to show you.” Celestia turned to the draconequus. “Discord, could you take us into the past, but only to observe.”

He looked around at the group. “All of you?”

“Yes, I think they all need to see this.”

“Um, okay, but when?” She whispered in his ear and Discord nodded, still confused. Then he snapped his fingers.

Author's Note

The 'Rainbow of Light' is from My Little Pony G1 that I watched as a kid, so as a tribute to my childhood, I put a lot of G1 references. I also have a theory that some of the pony characters from G1 are the parents or relatives of the Mane Six, or some of the background ponies. e.g. Twilight's mother looked like G1 Twilight:twilightsheepish:

My Past is not Today

When they rematerialized, they were blue and white, like ghosts. They were in some sort of grassy plain, near a patch of flowers.

Playing and laughing in the flowers were two butter yellow pegasi fillies, on older than eight or nine years old. One had short red hair and teal glasses, but the other looked exactly like Fluttershy, only the filly’s eyes were green and her mane was shorter.

The doppelganger had a cutie mark of five flower buds, while the other had a rose.

“That…filly looks like Fluttershy.” Discord marvelled, pointing to the pink haired foal.

Then the fillies spoke. “These flowers look so beautiful Rosey.” said the pink maned filly.

“Yes they do Posey.” said the other. “Let’s pick some for Grandma.”

“Who are those fillies?” Twilight asked. “I have never seen them before in history books.”

“It was kept secret for oblivious reasons.”

“I know who the red haired filly is…” Fluttershy said. “That’s my mom! But I don’t have any clue on who the other filly is?”

“I think the rest can be explained in the future. Discord?” Celestia asked. The draconequus snapped his fingers and they were in the same grassy plain, but the fillies were gone. Then a slightly older version of pink haired filly appeared from behind a tree, singing.

There’s music in the treetops,
And there’s music in the vale,
And all around the music fills the sky,

There’s music by the river,
And there’s music in the grass,
And the music makes you heart soar in reply,

Ahhhhhh, ah, ahhhhh, ah, ahhhhh
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
Ahhhhhhhh-

The mare shrieked when a human boy fell out of the tree. He was around eleven or twelve years old. He had a freckled face, red hair, blue eyes and a baseball cap. Violet recognized the boy from old family photos. “That’s my dad.”

Comet gave her a blank look. “What do you mean that’s your dad? What is he anyway?”

“Shh, look!” Applejack pointed at the two past figures.

The butter pegasus was still screaming. “Who are you? What are you?!”

The boy held up his hands. “Whoa, easy girl. I’m friendly! Ouch!”

She started whamming him in the head with a stick. “Hey, hey! Ow! Cut it out! I come in peace!”

She paused and scrutinized him. “What were you doing in the tree?”

He stood up to his full height. “I was climbing it. I didn’t know this was your spot.”

“I’ve never seen anything like you before.”

“I’m a boy, a human boy. Wow, I didn’t know horses have wings?”

“I’m a pony and what do you mean you’ve never seen a pony with wings.”

“I just got here. I’m friends with Bright Mac and Buttercup.”

Applejack gasped. “My parents!”

The pegasus soften at little. “Can you prove it?”

“Bright Mac wears a cowboy hat and has a green apple on his butt. Buttercup has a picture of a butter jar and is very kind.”

“Okay I believe you, what’s your name?”

“Danny.”

“Nice to meet you, Danny. My name is Posey Daphne Blossom.”

He shook his head. “Nah, too long. How about I just call you Daphne?”

Violet’s mouth dropped. Now she knew why the mare looked so familiar.

“Violet? Are you okay?” Discord asked.

“That…that…that’s…my mom.”

“What?” every pony exclaimed.

“But she looks nothing like you?” Rainbow said.

“I don’t know Dashie, the resemblance is uncanny.” Twilight marvelled.

“You never told us you were part pony!” Pinkie said, accusingly.

“I didn’t know.”

“There’s more for you to see.” Celestia declared.

She whispered to Discord again. He snapped his fingers and the scene changed. They were in the field outside of the Sweet Apple Acres orchard. Danny and Posey were playing with a large group of ponies and a tall blonde girl in green overalls.

Violet recognised her as her late Aunt Megan. Rainbow Dash gasped when she saw two pegasi. One was a pink mare with a light blue mane and violet eyes. The other was a purple stallion with a multi-coloured mane. “Those are my parents!”

Applejack was gawking in the other direction. “And those are mine!” A yellow stallion with an apple red mane wearing a cowboy hat was rolling around on the grass. A peach mare with an orange curly mane was watching him dreamily.

“What's with that blush, Buttercup?" Bright Mac asked in a southern accent.

Buttercup looked away awkwardly. “What blush?"

“Sounds like your parents haven't figured out their feelings yet?” Violet whispered.

“Ma and Pa loved each other very much,”

"Aww, the two of you are so cute together!" Posey sighed.

"Megan!" Bright Mac and Buttercup whined.

A teenage girl laughed as she walked over to them. “You two need to get a room, every one here knows that the two of you have been digging at each other since the day Bright Mac broke the Water System."

“Hey Firefly, bet ya twenty bits that they’ll get married,” Rainbow’s father murmured.

Bright Mac and Buttercup looked away from each other awkwardly.

Buttercup let out a shriek as it started to rain. Everyone looked around and it appeared to be raining on them. They glanced up to see a blonde white pegasus with black balloons on her flank jumping on top of a raincloud. “Surprise!” Buttercup screamed. “That's not funny!”

They heard laughter behind them. Danny and another blonde girl in pink overalls were rolling around on the grass. “Danny! Molly!” Megan scowled.

“Come on, can’t you guys take a joke?”

“Knock it off, Surprise!” Posey warned.

Megan looked up at the sun. “Come you two, it’s getting late and Mom and Dad will want us home soon.”

“Already?” Firefly asked disappointingly.

“Sorry guys, but we have a curfew.” Megan pulled out a heart shaped locket. “Let’s go home.”

She opened it and a rainbow shot out. “That’s the Rainbow of Light, isn’t it?” Violet asked.

“Yes and those children were true to their word, when they said they would protect it with all their heart.” said Celestia. The scene fast forwarded like a video cassette and when it continued, a twenty-year-old Danny was sitting under an oak tree, sobbing. In his hand, was the locket.

“Megan, Molly…” he buried his face in lap. He perked up when he heard the sweet voice. Then the familiar pink haired mare came into view.

“Danny!” she ran over to him, but stopped when she saw that he was crying. “Danny what’s wrong, where’s Megan and Molly?”

Danny continued sobbing. “They…their…dead…”

Posey’s eyes widened. “What happened!”

“They were in the car going to the mountains, but they lost control and they…” Posey flew to her childhood friends side.

“I’m so sorry Danny. So, so, sorry.” She started to cry with them.

Everyone was standing, looking shocked. “I had no idea my dad lost his sisters.” Violet said. “My aunts.”

The scene shifted slightly. The same group of ponies were crying, clearing mourning for the loss of their friends. Then another Princess Celestia came into view. “I’m so sorry for your loss, Danny.” she said, putting a hoof on his shoulder.

Danny was sobbing into Posey’s embrace; she was crying along with him. “I’m not going back!” he said suddenly.

Every pony looked at him as if he said a bad word.

Even Celestia seemed surprised. “I’m sorry Danny, but we can’t have a human running around in Equestria.”

“Please! Please let me stay. I have no one else to turn too. My sister were the only ones I had left. And they would want me to protect the Rainbow,” He locked eyes with Posey, his blue eyes met her green. “Besides, I feel my heart belongs to Posey.”

The pegasus looked at him, lovingly. “Danny…I never knew you felt this way.”

Past Celestia smiled. “I see, well if this is your decision. Then who am I to stand in its way,” The human and the pegasus stared at her.

“But it comes with a cost. You can never return to the human world and you have to become a pony.” she said to Danny.

Danny looked around at the other ponies, then back at Celestia. “I wish to stay here and become a pony.” he said, in full confidence.

Celestia smiled and touched his head with her horn. A bright flash of light emitted from her horn. When the light dimed down, Danny was now a dark blue pegasus with red hair and blue eyes. The scenes shifted into various scenes. When the scene played at normal speed, there were two young fillies in view. They were very familiar indeed.

“That’s us!” Violet and Fluttershy cried in surprise. The younger versions of them were making daisy chains. The filly Violet looked around four or five, with her blonde hair tied into pigtails, while the younger version of Fluttershy looked six and her mane was let loose over her face.

“That…what…how?” Violet turned accusingly at Celestia.

“Watch.” She blankly said.

“Violet! It’s time to go home now!” called an older version of Danny.

He was still a pony. “Coming Daddy!” she piped. “See ya Fluttershy.”

“Bye, bye!” past Fluttershy said.

Violet instantly new something was wrong when she saw the menacing look on her father’s face.

“That’s Chrysalis, isn’t it?” Violet said.

“Yes, she took your fathers form to get close to you.” Celestia explained.

“But what about the fact that Violet and I knew each other as foals!” Fluttershy demanded.

“That will be explained shortly.” The scene fast forwarded to the valley, which was covered in changelings. Chrysalis had cornered Posey, Danny and Violet against a rock.

“You have nowhere to run, little ones!” the queen cackled. “Now that I know the way into the human world, I won’t have any use for you anymore!”

Posey looked at her husband and daughter.

“Danny, Violet. If we don’t get out of this, I want you to know that I will forever love you.”

“Mommy, are we going to die?” Violet asked, tears in her eyes. Danny hugged his girls close to his chest.

Then he remembered. “The Rainbow!” he pulled out the locket. “Posey, Violet, focus on our love for each other. Then the Rainbow will activate.” he explained in whispers.

Past Violet and Posey closed their eyes shut and focused on their emotions. Then from in the middle of the family, a bright rainbow light appeared.

“Wha…what is this!” Chrysalis shrieked. The light expanded and blasted the changelings, but in the middle of the blast, the rainbow seemed to absorb into Violet’s chest.

“That is freaky,” she said.

Celestia turned to Violet. “We have one more thing to see.”

Discord snapped his fingers and the same group of ponies from before were all standing in front of Celestia, Posey, Danny and Violet. Rosey was standing up front, next to her was Fluttershy and a green pegasus stallion in a blue sweater. “Celestia, isn’t there another way?” she pleaded.

“I’m sorry Rosey, but it’s the only way to protect the Rainbow of Light. Since it’s become a part of Violet, Chrysalis will want to take her from us.” Posey explained, shedding tears.

“Sister…please.” Posey embraced the red haired mare.

“I’m sorry Rosey, but we have to protect Violet.”

“But…but I’ll never see you again.” Rosey sobbed.

Violet spoke up in a timid, sad voice. “Do…do we have to go, Mommy?”

“Yes, now say your goodbyes to Fluttershy, as this is the last time you’ll see each other.” Young Violet and Fluttershy approached each other. They finally flew themselves at each other and embraced each other, sobbing.

“I’m going to miss you Fluttershy.”

“I’ll miss you too!”

They finally broke away, crying uncontrollably. Danny wrapped a hoof around his daughter. All the other ponies embraced the couple and filly, all shedding tears.

“Stay strong you two.” said Buttercup, a young colt and filly were at her side.

“That’s me and Big Macintosh!” Applejack cried.

“And there’s me!” Rainbow pointed to a younger version of herself, standing next to her father.

Celestia turned to the family of pegasi. “You ready to go yet?”

“One minute!” Rosey held out a purple and green scarf to Posey.

“Something to remember us at heart.” she sobbed. “Thank-you sis, I will treasure it with all my heart.” Posey said.

Finally, the two mares embraced each other one last time. Posey then went down to Fluttershy’s eye level.

“Fluttershy, promise me that you will always remember our song, it was your mine and your mother’s song.”

“I…I promise, Auntie Posey.” she whimpered.

Posey backed away, in tears before turning to Celestia. “We’re ready,” she said.

Celestia lit up her horn. “This is an ancient spell that very few can use. It will send you to the human world, also remove your daughters’ memories, so she can never go back.”

“Do it,” Posey said. Celestia’s horn glowed brighter and went the light died down; Posey, Danny and Violet were gone. Rosey couldn’t take it anymore and fell to the ground crying. She let all her sadness out in a yell.

“SISTER!”

The group watched as the scene faded away and they were back in the forest. Violet and Fluttershy were in pure shock. They slowly pieced together the evidence, while slowly facing each other at the same pace. “If our mothers were sisters,”

“Then we’re,”

“You’re my,”

“We’re…”

“Cousins!” they said together.

“Yes, you may be cousins, but you two were closer then sisters.” Celestia said with a warm smile.

Violet then remembered something. “That’s why I felt so comfortable around Fluttershy. It was like my mind recognised her.”

“And you two have a lot in common.” Applejack said.

“Now you know,” the princess told Violet. “The reason you gained such power is that you are a child of two worlds, as well as product of true love.”

Violet looked up at Celestia. “But how come I have never done that before?”

“The magic inside you was triggered once you embrace your equine side. When you were born, I paid close attention to you, to see if you would gain any special abilities.”

The girl turned to Discord. “Did you know about this?”

“How could I? I was in stone during that time,” he shrugged. “I guess it was just dumb luck.”

“Violet…” Comet murmured. Violet felt the colour drain from her face. She slowly turned to face him, looking him in the eye.

He had a look of concern. “Why didn’t you tell me that you’re a Human?” he asked.

She hung her head, knowing that she had no way out of this. “I was afraid of what you might think,” she felt like her heart had turned into broken glass. “to know that your girlfriend was something from another world.”

Comet lifted her chin. “Just say it Violet, get ready for heart break and tears.”

Violet locked eyes with him. “I’m sorry I kept this from you. A healthy relationship means that we don’t kept secrets from each other and I kept my biggest secret from the stallion I trust the most. I don’t know if you will ever look at me the same, but know that I was scared of what you would think. I wish you could have found out a better way than this.” She properly broke down into tears.

Suddenly, Violet felt the familiar softness on her lips. Comet was caressing her face and neck. Violet felt something warm wrap around her neck. She broke away to see her scarf around her neck and Comet giving her a loving smile. “No matter what your race, I will always love you Violet. Sure I was shocked at first, but I understand how hard it must have been for you. But, promise me this. No matter how bigger secret, we always talk about it, because it’s easier to let it go, than hold it back.”

Violet cried tears of joy as she flung her hooves around his neck, pressing her lips to his. Then something crossed Violet’s mind.

She broke away and faced Celestia. “Princess? Whatever happened to my mother?”

Celestia’s face twitched slightly. “I’ll show you.”

She lit up her horn again and touched the ground. They were back to being white like ghosts, but it was just Celestia and Violet. Chrysalis and her drones were standing there, obviously waiting for something. Violet watched as a door opened out of nothing. Out stepped her mother, wearing the same clothes she wore when she disappeared.

“Ah, Posey Daphne Blossom. Come back to meet your fate.” Chrysalis snarled.

The woman glared at the changelings. “I suppose you want the Rainbow of Light, well you can’t get it,” The doorway disappeared. “The doorway is sealed. Now you’ll never be able to get to Violet.” she spat.

Chrysalis growled. “You are going to open the gateway right now or your life will end right here.”

Violet felt her heart stop. Posey clenched her fists and breathed through her nose. “I will never let you into the Human World.”

“Then you are no use to me.” Chrysalis snarled, charging up her horn. “Last chance!”

“I’D RATHER DIE THEN LET YOU INTO THE HUMAN WORLD!” Posey cried.

Chrysalis yelled and her magic shot a beam of green light at Posey. The light hit her in the chest and she screamed in agony.

“NOOOO!” Violet screamed as the picture blurred into reality. When they were back in the forest, Violet would have collapsed into a heap, had Comet not caught her. Violet started crying uncontrollably. “What happened!” Discord asked.

“My…my…my mother is…d…de…she’s gone!” Violet sobbed. A gasp rose from the group. Comet stroked her hair lovingly. “She…she gave her life for…me?”

All around came words of sorrow and comfort. Comet held his girlfriend close as she drenched his shoulder in her tears. Violet was a wreck when they got home. Discord and Fluttershy offered to let Comet spend the night. “She might need you.” Fluttershy said.

Comet ended up staying for a week. Violet rarely let anyone talk to her and mostly spent her time crying and grieving. Comet held her close whenever she broke down. But when the week was over, Violet was back too normal. She talked to Fluttershy more often and they started to retain their childhood bond. Discord proved to also be a big help, entertaining her with his magic.

Two weeks past and Violet was retained. She had even helped the CMC earn their cutie marks. Turned out that their special talent was being the CMC. Violet said that once they had finished school, they could start their own Cutie Mark Agency. That sparked the young filly’s minds.

Though Violet had a hard time excepting that her mother was dead, she had her friends and her new found cousin to support her.

Author's Note

So Fluttershy and Violet are cousins! Betcha didn't see that coming, and if any of you were wondering where Zephr Breeze was, well he wasn't born yet.

Also, a moments silence for Posey
:ajsleepy::fluttercry::ajsleepy::fluttercry:

Edit: Now that we know the real Apple Parents Names, I decided to change the story a little bit. Not much, just the original names I had.

I'm still keeping Firefly and Rainbow Blaze though...

Sweet Sixteen

It had been a month since that day and lots of stuff happened.

Discord and Fluttershy had been spending more time together, as Violet did with Comet.

The CMC had already started to look for ponies with cutie mark problems. Rainbow was dating Soarin and had been made a Wonderbolt, so she was away a lot.

Rarity was currently dating Fancy Pants and Twilight dated Flash.

Violet found how that Spike had a small crush on Rarity, but when he found out that she was with Fancy Pants, he was heartbroken.

Violet helped him out with the heart break and told him that what he was most likely experiencing ‘puppy love’. Spike eventually found comfort with Applejack and he proved to be a great help around Sweet Apple Acres. To everyone’s surprise, they started dating and Violet joked that Fluttershy and Discord weren’t the only weird couple in the group.

Pinkie remained single, until she met another party pony. His name was Cheese Sandwich and they wrote letters to each other every week. Violet was happy that all her friends had found love.

She started making perfumes and they’re popularity exploded over night. Violet even did a door to door business and supplied the spa ponies with new essences and remedies. Soon, Violet had to use the basement as her perfume lab. She hired Scootaloo as her part time delivery pony, because she could make easy deliveries with her scooter.

The filly was still a flightless bird and Violet promised that she would do something to help train her wings. Even Discord gave her ideas for new remedies, but unfortunately that meant that he was her tester. Violet expanded and started to make soaps and shampoos, all made from natural ingredients. Rarity constantly came to the door for her newest bottle of perfume.

Comet still worked in the factory, making rainbows for the ponies. Violet was so happy with life that the time flew by faster then she excepted.

Violet woke up one morning, feeling new. At first she thought it was because she had a restful sleep, but then she remembered that it was her birthday.

She was sixteen years old. And what was better, she had friends and family to celebrate it with. With a slight cheer, she jumped out of bed and took a refreshing shower. After drying off, she tied her hair into a ponytail. The only make up she wore was cherry chapstick and mascara, for blush she just rubbed her cheeks a little. She was expecting a cheery surprise from her friends, but instead found an empty dining room.

“Fluttershy? Discord? Any pony?” She then spotted a note sitting on the coffee table, next to it was a gold and green sequin dress with a gold belt. It read:

‘Put this dress on and meet us at Sugar Cube Corner, Discord.’

Violet rolled her eyes and slipped the dress on. It was so soft, like silk. She trotted over to the bakery and opened the door, but the lights were off. “What the…?” She started to say.

“SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”

The bakery was blasted with birthday decorations, a big banner read ‘Happy Sweet Sixteen Violet-Rose’

“Surprise!” Pinkie Pie shouted, popping up into Violet’s face. “You like it?”

“Pinkie, this is incredible!” the teenager marvelled. “How’d you know it was my birthday?”

“Discord told me!”

The draconequus shrugged. “I did a little digging.” The other five ponies greeted their human friend with a hug.

The CMC raced up to Violet. “Violet! Violet! Look!” Sweetie Belle cried, pointing to her flank.

On it was a red, purple and orange striped shield with a purple music note. The other fillies had the same, except theirs had a lightning bolt and an apple. “Look at that! You girls match!” Violet said.

“We do! Cutie Mark Crusaders FOREVER!” They all cried.

“Violet,” The crowd parted and Comet walked over to Violet. The couple embraced. “Happy Birthday Violet,” he said. “I have a present for you, close your eyes.”

She did as she was told and felt something cold go around her neck. She opened her eyes and was greeted by the most beautiful necklace she had ever seen. It had a gold chain with three pearls on either side. In the middle were two gemstones, an amethyst and a ruby. They were cut into a violet and a rose. In the centre of the gems was a silver bead and when the light hit it just right, it made her eyes sparkle.

“Comet…it’s beautiful.” she uttered.

“Not as beautiful as you.” He went to give her a peck on the cheek, but Violet caught him and placed her mouth to his own. The crowd awed at the couple. When they broke away, Violet saw Apple Bloom holding up a guitar. “Please could you sing that song again for us? We’ve made it our CMC anthem.”

Violet chuckled, but took the guitar. “I have a better idea.” She sat down on the counter, strumming a chord, she began to sing the song that Applejack taught her.

Equestria, the land I love,
A land of harmony,
Our flag does wave from high above,
For pony kind to see,

Equestria a land of friends,
Where pony kind do roam,
They say true friendship,
Never ends,
Equestria my home,

She continued to strum the chords as everypony joined in.

Equestria, the land I love,
A land of harmony,
Our flag does wave from high above,
For pony kind to see,

Equestria a land of friends,
Where pony kind do roam,
They say true friendship,
Never ends,
Equestria my home,

The ponies cheered and lifted her into the air. When they set her down, Vinyl Scratch played some of Violet’s favourite songs. She and Comet danced up a storm and practically screamed out the lyrics.

Discord kept doing his goofy dance moves, until someone threw a cupcake at his head, telling him to stop. They danced, ate and drank themselves silly on punch and apple cider.

Pinkie and the Cakes had baked a colossal birthday cake with violet frosting and white icing with sugared violets and roses. The cake was so big that Violet had to fly up to blow the candles out. Discord even made it rain chocolate milk, causing a small lake to form on the floor. Pinkie started lapping it up like a dog. All and all the party when on into the evening. Violet was opening all her presents, receiving a lot of ingredients for future remedies.

Once every pony had left to go home, Comet blindfolded Violet and led her outside into the night. “Where are you taking me?” she asked.

“Almost there,” he said.

“Alright, now!”

He removed the blindfold and Violet saw that they were on a bridge in the middle of the park, surrounded by fireflies.

“Comet…this is beautiful.” She whispered as the tiny insects made the shape of a heart with their initials on it and an arrow shot through. “You really are full of surprises.” she said, facing him.

“That’s what I’m known for,” he said, caressing her chin and gazed into her eyes. “My princess, my beautiful princess.”

“Am I your princess?” she smirked.

Comet said nothing as he planted kisses all over her face, until he reached her lips. Violet threw her arms around his neck, pulling him closer and deepening the kiss. Comet wrapped his hooves around her waist as they ascended up.
Floating in mid-air, the atmosphere around them was drowned in the love for the two ponies. Violet lid her eyes shut, concluding that life couldn’t get better than this.

She had a nice house, a best friend who will always be there for her, friends who would do the same, a cousin who loves her, a boyfriend who will always care for her and a power that one would kill for.

She felt like the luckiest girl in the universe. She was never going back to the human world, for she had found where she really belonged, she was now and truly,

Home…

The End

Author's Note

Thank you so much for reading this. I really enjoyed writing it and I hope you all enjoyed reading it.

I am planning to make a series out of this, so stay tuned and please go check out Disneyfantic2364, she is an amazing writer and her works inspired me to write this.