Author's Note

This is intended as an idea dump of sorts for my own story concepts. Please do not solicit your own ideas.

Prompt: Fluttershy is turned into a dragon by Discord in order to help her get over her fear of them. Problem is, Fluttershy admits that part of her reason for their fear is their size and power. Discord rationalizes that Fluttershy won’t be afraid of power and size if she’s made to see what it’s like, so he zaps her and she starts growing bigger and more powerful. Fluttershy is very timid and worried about this, doing her best to resist the addicting nature of size and strength. She gets to around seven hundred feet tall before Discord stops it, and they have a little chat about Fluttershy’s fear.

Contains: Feral, Macro, Growth, Power Fantasy, Dragon TF, Destruction

Dr. Discord's Patented Exposure Therapy™

Art by Whitestar1802.

“Oh, come on, Fluttershy!” Discord said. “You don’t—snrrrk—look that bad! Have a look in the pond!”

“No!” Fluttershy turned her back to him, her arms folded. “I don’t want to see myself like this!”

Discord facepalmed. “Oh, for the love of tire irons…” He raised his claw and snapped his fingers.

ZING! A tall mirror appeared right in front of Fluttershy. A pony-sized dragoness stared back at her, scales yellow, spines pink. Her cat-like pupils gave her chills upon seeing them, almost as much as her big, leathery wings. Her long tail felt alien as she flexed it back and forth, along with the sensation of opening and closing her claws, razor sharp and deadly.

“You’re being silly, my dear,” Discord said. He came up beside her to look, as well. “This phobia of yours is positively psychosomatic! Your friend Spike is a dragon. I’m part dragon! You’re not afraid of either of us, so why would you be so frightened of dragons in general?”

Fluttershy opened her mouth. Cruel, pointed fangs greeted her, the flat teeth only left in the back. A thin, forked tongue snaked out to taste the air, at least three times the length she was used to. “You and Spike are different. You’re not big and powerful brutes that just do whatever you want, when you want.”

Discord hesitated. He ran that last sentence over in his mind, particularly, the way in which she’d said it. “Is that really what it is? You’re afraid of big dragons?”

Fluttershy looked down at the ground. “They have all that power, but they don’t care about anything but themselves. They’d step on you just as soon as talk to you.”

Discord chuckled. “Well, I suppose there are fair number of that sort. But not all of them are like that, you know. I’ve personally met a fair number the size of that green dragon in the Everfree that were a perfectly decent sort! It all comes down to personality.”

Fluttershy clawed at the dirt. “I… I’m sorry, but I just don’t see how…”

Discord suddenly got an idea. “How about I show you?”

Fluttershy looked up. “What?”

“Yes! A perfect idea!” Discord clapped his hands. “You can’t see how something so big could still be nice because you can’t grasp what it’s like to be big yourself! If you see what it’s like to be that size, you won’t be afraid anymore! A perfect idea!”

Fluttershy took a step back. “Why would that help with anything?!”

“Don’t worry!” Discord cracked his knuckles. “I’ll be sure not to half-ass this! We need to get this phobia out of your system, and the only way we’re gonna do it is by amping your exposure up to eleven! Get ready to kiss the sky, Fluttershy! When I’m through, they’ll be crowning you the new Dragon Lord!”

“Discord, stop! I—”

But he’d already snapped his fingers.

A shudder ran through Fluttershy like she’d grabbed a tuning fork. She nearly tripped and fell, everything going blurry a second before refocusing. When she straightened back up she felt better, but the tingly feeling quickly replaced by a heat, starting faint but getting stronger… and stronger… and STRONGER…

It looked like the ground was falling away. Fluttershy blinked as her perspective shifted bit by bit, the forest around suddenly seeming not so large. Bushes that’d come up to her barrel now came up to her knees, then to her shins! Her tail flicked side to side as she looked all around, her mouth going dry as she stared at Discord.

“I-I...”

Discord smirked. He waited until she’d grown big enough for them to see eye to eye, then stole a quick peck on the cheek.

“Have fun~”

ZING! He vanished in a bright flash.

Fluttershy meeped. She looked all around in a panic, the forest clearing staring to close in on her. Her wings snapped to her sides and locked up, her pulse rising as she grew bigger.

“Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear!” Fluttershy tucked her scaly tail around herself. She curled into a ball and hugged herself, trying to ignore the sound of the soil shifting, grass tearing, her muscles swelling, her bones and skin creaking. The rising heat within her pounded in her ears, the tight, coiled energy building at a steady rate. It was coming in pulses, each one alluring and suffusing, adding to the developing wellspring that now coursed through her veins.

“A-Ah…” Fluttershy wiggled and squirmed. Before long she felt herself brushing up against the edges of the clearing, her rump pushing against the measly trees. She scooched closer to the center of the clearing, but within seconds she felt her rump brushing up again, the trees feeling smaller than ever. No matter how tightly she hugged herself she now filled up the entirety of the clearing, her growing form the size of an ursa minor!

Fluttershy fought to resist the rising tide. Delicious, tantalizing POWER raced through her, its siren song singing to her. Her trepidations and worries were being drowned out by a heady rush, one that grew harder and harder to ignore. Her bulging, swelling form was straining against the trees, the first telltale CRACKS signalling that her growth wasn’t stopping. Her scales were scraping against the bark, scraping against the rock and dirt, yet they gave way to HER! A simple push was enough to allow herself more room—all she had to do was take it!

Hissing, Fluttershy scrambled to get up. Crunching, crashing, and smashing accompanied her swift movements, trees falling bending and breaking all around her. The ground shook as she rose to her full height, her impressive form still climbing… ascending! Birds flew off and small creatures fled, the clearing now occupied by a rapidly-growing dragon! She could only stand in shock as destruction happened all around her, trees rubbing up against her chest and tail, shivering and shuddering before being felled.

It wasn’t long before Fluttershy could see up and over the forest canopy. The heat was emanating from her chest to then spread out to the rest of her, and every time it spread outward she grew larger, almost like a hiccup.Trees stretched out in every direction around her, looking smaller and smaller to her by the second. She was bigger than the enormous red dragon they’d evicted from the mountain! And she was STILL growing! Every fresh surge felt better than the last, coaxing her to give in, to just relax and enjoy it, but she still fought to keep her head.

“I’m not…” She cut herself off with a moan. “I’m n-not one of them!”

She was now standing head and shoulders over the canopy, and still growing strong. Her stance widened with every surge, shooting up feet at a time… then yards at a time! She winced as she had to smash more of the forest below, her claws expanding to take up more and more space, her antsy tail fighting to be freed so it could swish free. Before long her barrel cleared the canopy’s highest point, and Fluttershy could see Ponyville, several miles out to the south.

Fluttershy grit her teeth. The growth was only accelerating, and she was going to destroy the whole forest at this rate! The power ran through her like a livewire, making her feel more alive than ever before. Giddiness raced through her, along with promises of greatness and strength! Her knees now cleared the canopy, and the length of her body was so great that an entire hoofball field could fit comfortably beneath her. She was now starting to rival the greatest of dragons, and it wouldn’t be long before nothing… NOTHING could stop her!

“NO!” Fluttershy stomped her foot, a small earthquake ravaging the forest. “I WON’T GIVE IN! I’M NOT LIKE THAT, AND I NEVER WILL BE!”

In response, the growth doubled. Fluttershy’s eyes rolled back as she rocketed up and up, so large that even her claws were larger than the trees. Every part of her swelled and expanded, soaring upward with rising speed. She passed five hundred feet without even stopping, the four digit numbers starting to not look so far away—

“Having fun?” asked a familiar voice.

Fluttershy’s eyes snapped open. A gnat had flashed into being a hundred feet away from her colossal eyes, just far away that she could focus on it.

“Discord!” Fluttershy’s voice was deafening. “Stop it! Stop the spell!”

Discord chuckled. “But you’re not even the size of a mountain yet! Wouldn’t you rather—”

“NO!” Fluttershy glared daggers at him. “Stop. The. Spell. NOW!”

Discord raised an eyebrow. He snapped his fingers again, and a bolt like lightning struck her.

Fluttershy felt the throbbing pulses cease. She sighed in relief as she looked all around, paling as she realized she could see the entirety of Canterhorn Valley. “Oh, my…”

“Like it?” Discord landed on her toothy muzzle. “You’ve got quite the view, I must say. Granted, I know you probably see it enough being able to fly and all, but able to see it while on the ground...”

Fluttershy was speechless. She was indeed still ‘on the ground’, her mighty claws sunk quite deeply into the earth. Length-wise, she had to be half as long as Ponyville!

“I once knew a dragon who was this size,” Discord said. “I suppose you could even call him my mentor. He was old when the world was young, and we always had the nicest talks. Talking was about all he could do, see, so he was usually quite the conversationalist. You remind me a lot of him, actually...”

Fluttershy frowned at that. “What do you mean?”

Discord patted her snout. “I mean he was kind. He was good, he was giving, he was patient and wise. He told me a great many things about the world, the things he’d seen and experienced, and the things that he believed in. It was his teachings that I followed for millennia before forgetting them. You would’ve liked him.”

Fluttershy swallowed hard. She could still very clearly feel the destroyed forest around her feet, along with the terrifying shadow that she now cast. “And what would he say if he could see what you just did to me?!”

“Oh, calm down,” said Discord. “I moved all the animals soon as I started this little experiment, and I’ll fix the trees in a bit. What’s more important now, is that you listen.”

Fluttershy glowered. “You had me terrified, Discord! I was worried that I’d crushed someone!”

“Worried that you’d crushed someone?” Discord repeated. “Well now, that doesn’t sound like something an immensely powerful mega-dragon would say. Why should you care about those puny little gnats?”

“They’re not puny little gnats!” Fluttershy said. “They’re living, breathing creatures with lives and thoughts! I don’t care how big or how powerful I get—I’m not so arrogant to think that they’re nothing!”

Discord examined his back of his paw. “Do you think you’re first dragon to think that?”

Fluttershy’s reply died on her lips. Her thoughts fell into a jam, stumbling over one another.

“There are evil dragons and good dragons,” Discord said. “True, size and power are alluring, but that doesn’t mean every dragon out there succumbs to them. Many of them try to use their abilities for good, and more often times than not they succeed. A dragon doesn’t get to this size without learning a thing or two about the world.”

Fluttershy didn’t know what to say. It’s not like she was now going to look at the world in a whole new different way or something, but this definitely was food for thought.

“I’d take another look at how you view dragons, my dear.” Discord gave her a meaningful look. “Trust me on this—if you let a fear control you, it’ll eventually turn you bitter, and things just go downhill from there.”

Fluttershy gulped. “I-I’ll try. Can you shrink me down now, please?”

“Mmmm…” Discord tapped his chin. “I dunno, you’re quite ravishing as a giantess—”

“Discord!”

“Fine, fine…”