Melody was in her library, studying... In the quiet... Fire-lit... Secluded... Library. She groaned "I. Hate. Books!" Her voice echoed in the expansive halls of the underground castle library, a library that would make Twilight Sparkle herself squee for multiple reasons. And Melody hated it. Well not the library itself, that could easily be fixed with a little paint and glitter. No, not the library. It was the studying she hated. Studying to find a spell to release the only other of her species from his stone imprisonment "doesn't even have to be a spell, I'll take anything at this point" she muttered to herself.

She had been at this for hours. She didn't know how many hours, but she guessed it was somewhere in the double digits. She didn't really need to sleep on a daily basis. Twenty four hours at the beginning of every month usually kept her going.

She grasped another book from the shelf with her magic and be began to read "let's see... 'Historical Magical Events Of Equestria'... oh goodie" she sighed.

CHAPTER 23, PAGE 789; Discord's imprisonment was an extremely important event in history. As we all know the princesses used the elements of harmony to encase him in stone. This is important to the history of magic bec-

Melody through the book into the fire "And stay in thare, devil book!" She stated, pointing at the fire place. She began to pace, muttering to herself. Soon her focus was snapped to the clicking of claws.

"Are you alright Melody?" Asked the fox, tilting her head slightly.

Melody smiled gently "I'm fine, Tune. Where is Symphony?" She asked looking around the room. Usually the two fox sisters were attached at the hip.

Tune shrugged, her green eyes flashing orange in the light of the fire "She and Note are trying to get Saddla out of her room" she chuckled "I'm surprised she took it that badly, Reed didn't mean anything by it"

Melody rolled her eyes and rubbed a temple with her paw "I know he didn't, but he caused it anyway. Reed isn't really the one to not cause trouble per se"

She and several other animals lived in the castle, which really was just a large system of halls and rooms carved into rock and polished with magic. The foxes were the only ones that could actually speak. The others asisted her with her inventing of technology and such.

She wasn't positive, but she was almost certain she helped in the accidental invention of plastic.

Tune smiled "Yes, indeed. Anyway, how are things going here?" she looked over to the fire place, that still had the now burning book inside "obviously better then expected. You haven't killed anyone"

"Not yet" she growled. Melody flicked her ears and lowered onto all fours, swishing her tail back and forth.

Tune shook her head "Oh come on Melody, surely it isn't that bad"

Melody scoffed "I'm trying to get the only other draconequus known to pony kind out of an eternity encased in stone. It's pretty bad..."

"Well maybe, but he isn't going anywhere anytime soon..." she walked to one of the nearby doors. She opened it and turned around "but don't give up before you've even started" and she left trough the extremely small door. It was designed with the foxes in mind.

Melody clicked her tongue "Damn your reasoning, demon vixen..." She twitched her tail and restored the previously destroyed book, teleporting it back on the shelf "I just wish 'not giving up' didn't involve so much reading"

Then a ear piercing screeching sound echoed trugh the castle. Melody casually covered her ears with her paws, rolling her eyes. The screeching stopped after a few seconds. Still enough to leave a creature with extremely sensitive ears like a draconequus with a ringing sound.

"I really have to come up with a quieter alarm... Wait... alarm!" She face palmed "is it really that late? Well I guess I should probably get going" she summoned her pony disguise and was swallowed by red smoke.

When it cleared she was once again the white and black pony, Midnight Hawk.

"Pony's," she hissed "they have uncomfortable hooves and edgy butt tattoos" she smiled and giggled a little "hey that kinda almost rhymes- no off topic! Not there was one in the first place. In fa- stop it! Lets just go!" She unfurled her wings and flew for the exit.

She soared high above the place gardens. By now Luna's moon was high in the sky, casting the land in beautifully-lit darkness. It was quite soothing, really, the wind in her fur and mane. It wasn't quite as nice as it felt when she did this in her actual body, but nice nonetheless.

Soon enough she reached Discord's statue. She nosedived, allowing her form to change back in a flood of red smoke. She got close enough to the ground and twisted and turned her serpentine body like and eastern dragon and landed in a puff of dust, shifting her wings and folding them neatly over her back.

She herd Discord scoff 'Show-off' his thoughts echoed trough her mind.

Melody smiled "Totally... Worth it" she panted, flopping onto the ground with a thump.

'How vary graceful' he spat.

Melody rolled her eyes "You're just jealous you can't do better" she hissed playfully.

'Can't really do much of anything right now'

She nodded "touché"

'...But I could definitely kick your ass at flying'

She giggled "I'll have to take your word for it" she pulled herself to her feat. She usually walked as a quadruped, easer on the tail.

'So, Melody, how old are you?' Discord asked.

"Old? You mean my age? Well... Ten? T-ten... Nine...? no yah ten! Ten thousand three hundred forty eight"

He hummed. She had now idea how as his vocal cords were certley made of stone. Wait. Was he solid stone or are his international organs also stone? Never mind. Pointless to ask. She douted he could actually feel his organs all that much.

'I'm a century older then you. Well technically I'm one hundred and twenty two years older, but that doesn't have the same ring to it'

She shrugged and rolled onto her back, stretching. "I agree. But why do you care? Exact age doesn't really matter when you're immortal" she yawned, stretched her forelegs, flexing there claws with a groan.

'well you're currently the only livening thing I can have a proper conversation with. It's like talking to a brick wall with these ponies. Which is ironic considering im the one made of stone'

She began to purr "mmm... I have the foxes but they don't usually understand what I'm trying to say. They were never really with, and I quote, 'Disgustingly over complicated big words'"

''big words'? What did you say to them? My next question will be- you have talking foxes?'

"All I said was 'deliberately'! And yes. But they aren't my pets or my friends. More like house mates" she relaxed her flexed claws and arms and began the same process with her hind legs, makeing her joints to pop.

'Ok. Ummm... What's your favourite... colour?'

"Are you making small talk?" she mock gasped "who are you and what have you done with Discord?" She gave a sly smile, retracing her pawed arms to her chest like a meerkat, still lying on her back.

'Oh haha. Yes, I am. because for the life of me I can't think of anything else to say. So, what's your favourite colour?'

She coiled into a upward lying position. She tilted her head, eyes dotting back and forth around the moon-lit gardens, finally resting on the petrified spirit of chaos. She smiled evilly.

"Okay, I'll bite. My favourite colour is blood red. And you? What is your favourite colour?"

'polka dot' he stated simply.

She raised and eyebrow and a questioning look spread across her face. but she quickly shook her head "if you weren't you I would argue. But since you are you... I'm not going to waist my breath trying to reason with you"

He purred, something she doubted he did vary often 'Fast learner. That's good'

She rolled her eyes and shrugged "Being a fast learner is the only way to understand anything nowadays. Favourite book?"

'Well i didn't read much in my lifetime as a free draconequus, but i did read one book I rather liked... Uhh something like 'Potions And Elixirs Made With Plants And... Things'? or whatever'

She smiled and slowed her purring, which she had been doing for a while "Yah, I think I know what book you mean 'Temporary Organic Magical Compounds And How To Make Them'?"

'Yes, that. How about you? What is your preferred slab filled with paper and ink?' he purred.

"'Advanced Spells For Unicorns'" she smiled and coiled tighter when a cool breeze ruffled her long white fur.

'Hate to break it to ya Mel, but you're not a unicorn'

She curled her fluffy, long black wolf tail over her lions paws and rested her head on the ground, her purring never faltering. She blinked up at him, her naturally slitted puples slitting to paper thin, blurring her vision slightly "That doesn't mean I can't use it, Disco" she purred gently, flicking her forked tongue out her mouth with a hissing noise.

He scoffed ''Disco'? Is that really the best you can do?'

She expanded her puples back to there original size "Mel? Is that really the best you can do?"

'I'll think of a better nickname eventually. Before Celestia became 'Sun-butt' or 'Tia' or 'Flameing Sun Bitch' --the last one is still in the works by the way-- she was 'Princess Bubblegum''

She tilted her head slightly hand huffed air, a common sign among animals. It was a kind of secret language between species, ponies used to understand this but that stopped many millennia ago. But it came instinctual for drakonuquii so he understood exactly what she was saying.

'She used to have pink hair, she looked much nicer like that. Trust me. Anyway, hobbies?'

"Hobbies?" She cocked an eyebrow.

'Yes... You know, what do you do in your free time?'

"Oh!" She tilted her head in thought "hmmm... Fishing, hunting, archery, drawing, reading, climbing, flying, digging, gardening, writing, practicing magic, potion making, re-alphabetizing the library, de-alphabetizing the library, managing an artificial squirrel reserve and breeding program, bakeing, studying, knitting... Oh! And running" she finished whith a smile, she hadn't taken one breath since she started her list. She flopped onto the ground, pawing at the air.

'I-I... How.. What?'

She quickly regained her composure and sat up onto her haunches "If we have one thing in common, Discord, it's free time. I however am not stuck in one spot. The point being... I have a lot of bucking time on my hands"

'You do all of that!?'

She shrugged "To name a few things. I only need to sleep one day out of the month and I can go without food for two weeks. Now thousands of years of nothing worthwhile to worry about plus being easily bored plus almost unlimited magical abilities equals a wide range of 'hobbies'" she made quotation marks with her wings.

'Okay... Umm well all I do is count each individual blade of grass... And... I'm sorry, is there anything you aren't good at?!'

She flattened her ears against her skull "I never sead I was good at what I do. I just do it cuz' it's fun. There are plenty of things I'm not good at, or can't understand... like... I've never understood why we need Physics, I have next to no social skills, I don't understand why there are culturally customs and traditions, and I've been told that, apparently, I don't understand 'morals' - whatever those are..." she sniffed the air.

'Sun-butt told me the same thing! I know that I'm not exactly the poster boy for the morally correct thing, but I know what it is!'

She smiled "Ok my tern, Monsieur! essayez de répondre en conséquence!"

'Ok... I know that's prench, what does it mean?'

She purred louder "It roughly translates to 'do try to answer accordingly'"

'How many languages do you speak?'

"Several, bringing up my 'a lot of free time' thing again. now who is your favourite princess?"

He groaned 'I suppose Dimond-butt isn't to bad'

She thought for a second before realizing who he ment "How do you know about Cadence? She only ascended a couple centuries ago"

'She came by a couple days back with Lulu and Celly, who are both her aunts apparently, so thay must have a third sibling looked away somewhere. That or something less 'conspiracy theory-ie''

"Huh... Must be something important for her to come all the way to Canterlot..."

'They were talking about some kind of wedding with someone stallion called... Shining Armrest?'

"Armrest..? Do you mean Shining Armour?" She asked, tilting her head and halting her purring for the first time since her list.

He made a humming sound 'Na! Shining Armrest is much better, his parents really missed out on that one... But I think you're right. Shining Armrest is still better though!'

"Maybe that can be soon-to-be-prince Shining's nickname"

'Im likening you more and more, Lody'

"Still needs work. What I would give to see Twilight's face when she hears about this. Speaking of nicknames, what's Twilight's? I can't think of anything"

'its rather hard to find a rhyming yet funny nickname for somepony with the name 'Twilight Sparkle' there for you just have to come up with a different name the reflects there habits. I call her 'The Yellow StarBurst' because I hate her and all she represents, like yellow starbursts, And because of her cutie mark of course'

She smiled and laughed a little "Simple and relatable. Well played, Discord. Well played"

'Can you think of anything now? Also, your favourite princess'

"Hmmm... 'Princess Of Books'" she said

'What does that mean?'

She tilted her head slightly a shocked and confused expression on her face "You can't feel it? Little miss sun-rump is planning something big! This much magic hasn't been in the atmosphere since The 'Lerve~' princess ascended. She is going to ascend somepony, and my best guess is her fathfull apprentice and trusted element barrier miss Twilight 'Sparkill'"

'Now that you mention it... Yah... You may just be right'

"Luna is my favourite. Her night is beautiful" she smiled

'Yes, Lulu always loved to go all out... Okay! Favourite pie, mine is apple'

She smiled "Strawberry. Acum, te rog, mă enervează asta- basically, riddle me this, How many languages do you speak?"

'well... I know you were just speaking Romaneian. But I have no idea how to speak or understand it. I can speak Germaneian, Old Equestrian if that counts, and (insert clever horse pun name for Spanish here)'

"Oh! You speak (Previous clever horse pun name for Spanish)?!"

'yah, I was in Mexicolt for a century or two. I picked it up'

"I learnt in (insert equally clever horse pun name for Spain here). I'm a little rusty though. One sec... Ah!¿Cuánto tiempo te llevó? Me tomó alrededor de dos décadas perfeccionarlo. Dudo que sea tan bueno como lo fui, ¿qué opinas Discord?" (How long did it take you? it took me about two decades to perfect it. i doubt i'm as good as i was, what do you think Discord?) she tilted her head again and resumed her purring.

'No mucho, unos quince años. y estoy un poco oxidado también. creo que te está yendo bien ¿Qué hay de mí, Melody?' (Not long, about fifteen years. and I'm a little rusty as well. i think you are doing fine. what about me, Melody?)

She laughed "you're fine as well. But I think we cut down on the multilingual use for more then one word. Might get confused. That okay with you, señor?"

'sí, estoy bien con eso, señora' (yes, I'm fine with that, madam)

She giggled and snapped her fingers, it was a universal technique draconequii used and until Discord trade marked it, she would continue to use it. a fadora and trench coat apered on the statue.

'The streets of manehatten are a dangerous place, only I can save em''

"What does that even mean? Never mind. Not even going to ask how you know what manehatten is. You do look good in a fadora though" she snapped the outfit away.

'Probably the best idea. And thank you. Now I know you speak several languages, and I like some surprises. So, how long have you been in Equestria exactly?'

She shrugged, pausing her purring once more "I've been coming and going for the past three thousand years. Never stayed for more then a week though. I'm planning on staying for at least another century"

She looked up at the lowering moon "Looks like we're out of time. See you tomorrow"

'i don't know... Gonna have to check my schedule'

"It wasn't a request" she purred and launched into the air at a speed that would make Rainbow Dash jealous.

And dawn began to set in.

Twilight blinked her eyes open, groaning as Celestia's sun hit them.

She pulled her self out of bed, brushed her mane and tail, and descended the stares into the main room of the Library. She was going to see her friends today, thay were going to have a picnic.

The lavender unicorn smiled and levitated a book over to her.

Princess Celestia was writing Twilight and her friends a request for thare help in the up coming wedding.
She sent the scroll and looked out a window into the garden. Discord's statue was there, like always. She sighed.

"I wonder if Fluttershy..." She cast a spell that allowed her to see her subjects. She took a deep breath "Show me Fluttershy" she commanded. A image appeared infront of her eyes.

"Please? I just want to help you" Fluttershy pawed at the injured goose, it honked and she yelped. She launched herself across the room and hid behind a couch.

"Are you okay?" she asked. The bird honked at her "I'm sorry!" She ran out of her cottage, whimpering.

Celestia stopped using the spell, a look of confusion on her face, jaws slightly parted.

"Ummm... I'm sure she'll do... Fine?" She looked at Discord again and shock her head "He'll drive the poor girl out of the country if she gets scared that badly from a goose..."

Celestia paced her study for a few moments. She stopped and stomped her hoof on the floor "I got it!" She declared.

She pulled out a photo of Twilight and her friends. And smiled, looking at Discord "Well my old friend, looks like I have a way for you to be reformed after all... With limits to your magic of course. Can't have you reeking havoc on the contrary... Again" she looked back to the photo.

She nodded to herself. Twilight would reform Discord. "Is this a good idea?" She asked herself, looking back out at Discord "probably not. But hay, it will be interesting to watch" she giggled at the thought of Discord's face when he realized she suspended his powers.

"A little mean spirited, but he did try to takeover my country... Twice"

She left her study in search for her niece, leaving the photo of the six mares on her desk.

Author's Note

I'm 99.99 percent sure I didn't come up with 'princess bubblegum' so... Yah. Hope you liked it. I tried to catch all the spelling mistakes I could. Not sure how that went. I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can... Umm... Yah... Bye?