After a quick trot, Fluttershy finally reached the Fruit Bat Sanctuary, her friend and resident apple farmer, Applejack, already hard at work getting the apple lures ready for the move. "Hey there, Fluttershy!" She waved to the Pegasus. "You're just in time, too! These apples are just perfect for your *ahem* fanged compadres." Her scowl still gave away her disdain for the critters so close to her apples. The "leader" of the Fruit Bats returned it with a hiss and some seeds spat in the farmpony's general direction. Two years, and they still couldn't get along perfectly, it seemed.

"And good riddance too." She mumbled, gazing wistfully at the apples about to go to waste for the rats with wings.

"Now Applejack, we talked about this, remember?" Fluttershy said.

"Yeah, I do." Applejack sighed. "It's just a darn shame that something so bright Red and sweet would go to waste like this..."

...the victim screamed as their throat was torn open, a bright red torrent of blood gushing out of every hole imaginable... She froze and her breathing went hard and ragged, reliving the nightmare once more. "There's no escaping it, you know... " the voice scraped her inner thoughts like claws to chalkboard. " *sniffs* See, right there! Ah, the smell of sweet, delicious, thick, red-"

"Apple pie! Figured if we were gonna throw away most of these, might as well have made some pies instead of makin' compost! Uh, you alright shy? Kinda quiet there." Applejack exclaimed, taking another bite out of her slice of apple pie, still fresh from the oven.

"H-huh? What?"

"Celestia almighty, y'all are having a daze today! You hardly focused back when we were still relocatin' the Fruit Bats too!" She touched a hoof to Fluttershy's forehead, looking for a fever. "You sure you're feeling alright, Fluttershy?"

W-we finished?

"U-um, yeah..."

An entire day's worth of work, and I can't remember...any of it?

"I-its nothing to worry about, Applejack." Fluttershy gently patted her friend's forehoof. "Honest. I'm just feeling a bit...drained from all our hard work!" She chuckled nervously.

Applejack didn't buy it. Of course she wouldn't she's the element of Honesty, no way in Tartarus!

Applejack returned the gesture. "You rightly know better than to lie to me, Flutters." She sighed. "But I get it. Sometimes a good day of work is all you need to blow off some steam and think about things." She didn't really get it. Especially considering the obvious fact that the wallflower had no single recollection of the day's work, except greeting Applejack. Lamenting, she passed it off as simply being what her friend said, shrugging off the nagging feeling in the back of her head.

They talked well until near sunset, when they decided to part ways. "Oh dear me!" Fluttershy spoke. "It's almost sunset, I need to get back to my animal friends! Oh, Angel Bunny must be so worried..."

"No worries 'Shy, you go on and take care of your critters. Besides, I rightly need to hit the sack too, considerin'."

With that, Fluttershy began her small trot home, hoping to catch her new Fruit Bat neighbors stopping by to say hello to all her other animal friends...

Meanwhile a certain draconequus was sipping explosive tea in his own pocket dimension, when suddenly...

The teacup Discord was holding in his claws began to shake violently, turning red-hot before exploding. The liquid surprisingly stayed in the cup, albeit more blackened than before. "*sips* Ah, what a wonderful black tea! You could even say it had an... Explosive flavor! BAHAHAHA!" He chortled and guffawed loudly within his humble abode.

Discord's house wasn't very big, and had a much more homely look to it than you would expect from an avatar of Chaos. In fact, it looked more like Fluttershy's cottage, save for the randomness that comes with Chaos. Singing tea bags, stairs that lead nowhere, and origami cranes that actually flew were littered within the small home, making sure that every room you went to just screamed "CHAOS". All of this Chaos was just the way Discord liked it too. It made him feel at ease.

*DING DONG*

That is, until someone or something ruined the moment. "Ugh, I swear if this is another prank from Shmooze, I will stop giving him shiny things!" He snapped his claw, turning the door into a monster's mouth. Terrified shrieks of an unsuspecting mailpony followed. "Oh, mail's here! Go ahead, let him in!" Another snap followed.

Dripping wet and shivering in both fear and hyperthermia, the pony handed Discord his mail. "Uh, h-here you go mister Discord! NOW PLEASE STOP MAKING YOUR HOUSE EATING ME!" He bawled.

"I can't help when my home is feeling a bit peckish! Besides," The draconequus chuckled evilly. "You're making it a bit sick with all that urine you soaked yourself with, so it'd be best if you were just EXPELLED anyways!"

*SNAP*

The pony was suddenly gone. "I might still have an evil side, but not that evil...anymore!" He chided the invisible force known as META. "Although, that does bring a good thought for another prank..." He shrugged his shoulders.

"Bah! This is no time for pranks, I have mail to read!" Discord always got excited on mail day in his dimension because he only ever got one letter, the only one that mattered: Fluttershy's. A letter opener flew over and managed to cut a rather nice looking croquet out of the envelope that concealed the letter. "Let's see here," he started, snapping a pair of reading glasses into existence and resting upon his muzzle. "*ahem* 'Dear Discord:' Oh I just love it when she uses my name in letter form! It's much more personal that way!"

Dear Discord,

How are you? As for me, I'm so excited! Today me and Applejack helped relocate our little fruit bat friends to the new sanctuary. I can't wait seeing their adorable faces stopping by for a small fruit treat! It was a wonderful time! Or at least, according to Applejack. I can't remember much of, well, anything that happened that day...

I had another nightmare, the one I told you about. It began like it always did, and ended the same. The only difference, the same "difference" that they all have, was the victim. You told me not to worry,
but I'm a smart mare, Discord. You know more than you're letting on, I just know it. How can I trust you when you're still keeping secrets?! Friends don't keep secrets between each other!

Well, seeing as you forced my hoof, I... I won't send any more letters! I'm sorry, but you left me with no other choice!

At the very bottom were a few teardrops in place of Fluttershy's signature. "T-that sneaky devil!" Discord was angry. So angry in fact, that the words he wanted to use which just so happen to rhyme with "whittle" and "Mitch", were censored with more PG content. META strikes again.

He sighed. "She left me no choice. I have to tell her and once I do, I doubt she'll recover..."

Author's Note

Second chapter done, less serious this time.

Major bombshell happening next chapter, so be prepared for exposition and (finally) gratuitous amounts of blood and severed limbs. It will be a blood bath.

I'll take questions now, thank you!

Random commenter in the back row: "are you gonna ship Discord and Fluttershy?"

Me: why would I ship them anywhere? They're in equestria already! All jokes aside, no. Discord will be plot heavy, but there's no hot vampire-chaos god interbreeding going on.

Other than that one question, ask away any and all comments/concerns you might have about Immortality Ultimate