Quiet music played throughout the small waiting room of Ponyville Hospital on the fifth floor. Outside, the wildcard of nature was being played. The temperature was below freezing, The wind was howling and almost everything was freezing over. Inside the hospital were two Detectives, a librarian with her assistant, a nurse with her young child, a veterinarian with her husband. How will these 8 soul’s make it through the night?
“Discord what the hell are you doing?” Storm asked.
Discord turned around and saw that everyone in the room was staring at him. “ Oh, I was just making notes for my new book. This seems like the perfect setting, stuck in a hospital with a raging blizzard outside.”
“Discord listen,” Twilight said in a dry tone. “Depending on the situation that's going on outside nobody is in the mood for jokes.”
Discord gaps as if he was offended. “Well, I'm just trying to lighten the mood. I am as well aware of the situation as everybody else in this room.”
“Narrating out loud isn’t really doing anybody good.” Star Light said. “Plus, you have a book? Since when?”
“Well, it more of a serious type of book. I have been having some writers block you see and now this is the best time to. Unblock myself.”
“Right,” Star said. “Are the characters based on us?”
“For this story yes. You see this all started…”
Storm rolled his eyes as Discord talked about his book and how it all started. Storm noticed that Elaina was standing by the window by herself. She’s been there since the storm started.
Storm walked towards her placing a hoof on her shoulder. “Hey, Elaina.”
“Yes?” She said in a low voice.
“Are you ok?” Storm looked at her face she had a blank expression on her face.
“Yes, it’s just.” She paused. “I don’t like blizzards that’s all.”
“Yeah, same here.” Storm said staring out into the frozen storm taking place outside. “I rather take a thunderstorm then this any day.”
“Hey, Storm, Elaina,” Star called from the center of the room. “Get over here. We're gonna have soul sharing moment.”
“A what?” Strom replied while walking to the group along with Elaina right behind him.
Soon the group formed a small circle in the middle of the waiting room. Storm sat by Elaina. Load Star and Star Light shared the waiting room Couch and Discord had wrapped both Twilight and Fluttershy and himself in a blanket that he summoned.
“Now that everyone is nice and settled. Let’s get on with the soul sharing.” Discord said in a happy tone that sounded a little fack.
“What’s soul sharing.” Star Light asked. “I’ve never heard of it.”
“It’s when everyone in a group shares something to get to know everyone,” Fluttershy said. “Almost like an icebreaker type of exercise.”
“That’s right Fluttershy.” Discord patted her head. “We will be talking about what brought everyone here today. Detectives?” Storm and Star turned to Discord on instinct. “We all know why everyone is here. But we don’t know why you are here.”
“You wouldn’t believe us if we tell you.” Storm said shaking his head.
“He's not lying.” Star Light added. “It’s pretty stupid.”
“Now I really want to hear it.” Discord said clapping his hands.
“Alright then.” Star sighed. “This all started a few hours ago.”
“I don’t think this is a good idea.” Storm said while looking at the tree halfway inside the window. “Maybe we should go back to the door.”
It was early afternoon and it was freezing in Ponyville the first snow of the season had finally arrived. However for Storm, Star, Star Light, and Rainbow Dash this wasn't how they wanted to spend their day.
“What’s the point?” Rainbow Dash asked. “It’s already halfway in there. We might as well finish what we started.”
“I’m with Storm.” Star Light said looking at the tree. “This was a good idea for a moment, but now. It’s starting to backfire.”
“It’s way better than moving it up the stairs,” Star called out from the window a few feet away from the tree. “Hurry up or we're gonna be late for the party.”
“Star.” Storm called back. “Even if we get it through the window pin needles will be everywhere.”
“Don’t care to bring it through. It’s my house, my rules.”
Storm sighed. “Alright Dash. One more time, let’s make it count.”
Storm and Dash flew to the height where the tree was and then flew back about 15 yards. They both took a ready position as if they were about to push through something.
“I can’t watch.” Star Light sighed as she covered her eyes. A few moments later a loud crash was heard. Star LIght looked back up and the tree was no longer in the window.
“FUCK YEA!!!” Star shouted victoriously from inside his apartment. “Good work team!”
“Wait a minute,” Twilight said. “You moved your Hearts warming tree to through the window?”
“Yes,” Star confirmed.
“Why?”
“Because it was some much easier. Also, if we got the tree through then the coach should be able to fit too.”
“You moved a couch through there too?” Twilight said in disbelief. “I don’t believe you.”
“He’s not lying.” Storm confirmed, “Right after the tree we moved his couch in.”
“How big is your window Star,” Elaina asked. “It must be huge for you to move a tree and a house.”
“It is.” Star smiled. “Whoever built the place scared up big time and made the window huge kinda like a bay window.”
“Couch?” Discord said rubbing his chin a second later he snapped his fingers. “Oh, are you talking about the couch me and you found at the dump?”
“Yeah, that’s the one.” Discord smiled.
“Wait.” Storm said processing what Discord and Star had just said. “You got that couch from the dump? You said you got it from a yard sale for 30 bits.”
“I lied."
“That disgusting,” Twilight added.
“Hey, you know what they say,” Star said without a care in the world while waving his hoof around. “One stallions trash is another stallions treasurer.”
“Well, besides you and Discord everyone thinks that it was just trash,” Elaina said. “Didn't it stick when you first found it.”
“It was a bit yes.” Discord answered. “But it looked great now.”
“Star?” Star Light turned to the gray stallion next to her. “You said you got that couch today. When did you two get it?”
“This morning,” Star answered.
“Wow,” Star said looking at the items in the wagon. “We made a killing today. You were right Discord. Canterlot does throw away a lot of useful stuff.”
Discord rolled his eyes. “Tell me about. Who the heck throws away half of a pizza?”
“What a waste.”
The pair was nearing the exit when Star saw it. It was standing on top of a pile of wagon wheels. A tan couch was sat behind the sun as if it was the ruler of the dump. Stains were covered on the couch cushions from either rain, food or anything else that it touched.
“Look at that couch.” Star pointed. “Somebody threw out a whole couch and it looks great.”
Discord circled the couch as if he was a vulture protecting his meal. “Yeah, if you cleaned it up a bit, it would be great in your apartment don’t you think Star.”
“Totally.”
“I’m pretty sure there’s more to that story.” Twilight pointed out.
“There is,” Star admitted. “I don’t feel like telling the rest. Besides most of it involves us fighting the junkyard workers. They said we were trespassing or something.”
“What is with the stallions in this town and fighting?” Elaina asked. “It always feels like there’s a huge fight or pure violence almost every other week.”
“Name one.” Star challenged. “And don’t say the Diamond Dogs.”
“There was that one time that maniac barricaded himself in town hall and threaten to blow it up alone with Spike and the mayor inside. Also, there was that other time with the Timberwolves.”
“Ok, ok, ok.” Storm said waving his hoof from side to side. “First of all the timberwolf thing was more about containment than violence. Second, the only reason that happened was because someone had taken something from him.” Storm started at Discord.
“What?" Discord said looking back at Storm. "What did I do?"
“Discord,” Fluttershy said in a serious tone. “What did you do.”
“I kinda sorta made a deal with that stallion.”
“What kind of deal?” Star Light asked.
“The kind that I was forced to use Spike as collateral.”
“WHAT!?” Twilight shouted. “Why would you do that?”
“I didn’t have any other choice he said he was going to set the entire apple orchard on fire.”
“Because you stole his cocaine.” Storm added.
“Why would you do that?” Twilight asked. Her left eye begins to twitch.
“The using Spike as collateral or the coc…” Before Discord could finish Twilight pounced on him. Beating his head on the hard tile floor while strangling him. “Get this crazy princess off me!”
Everyone in the room tried to separate the two. Twilight had an iron grip on Discords neck and she wouldn’t let go no matter how much Storm and Load Star pulled and Elaina, Star Light and Fluttershy try to separate them She just wouldn’t let go.
“Man, Twilight were you always that strong? We could have used you in that fight with the Diamond Dogs.” Star said once the group finally separated the two. Just for safekeeping Twilight and Discord were placed on opposite sides of the room. “I mean seriously.” Star continued. “If you had Discords neck for two more minutes he could have been dead.”
"I'm sorry that never happened to me before." Twilight sounded a little embarrassed.
“That's called motherly instance Twilight.” Storm reminded. “When a mother or father found their child's attack or the reason they're so sad. Anger and violence is the first thing that comes to mind. That’s parenting 101.”
“How would you know that?” Star Light asked. “Did stuff like that happened to your family.”
Storm paused. “Not really. My mom was always busy with work and my father was… useless. I was the oldest of three counting me. If I found out that someone was picking on me or my sisters. I’ll hunt them down and kill’em.”
“Don’t you think that’s a little harsh?” Elaina asked.
“What if someone was bullying Button what would you do?”
“Point taken.”
"Well, I'll be sure to how you say? Press charges. She could have killed me." Discord pointed out.
"Discord you give Spike to a drug lord who took him and the mayor hostage because you stole his drugs. I would have tried to kill you too." Star said.
After a few more hours of sharing stories, eating junk food from the machines and a couple of jocks. The blizzard finally passed and everyone was allowed to go home. While everyone was heading home Storm and Star had to head back to the station for a meeting.
When they arrived Clover and Comet were already in the room waiting.
“Where have you two been?” Clover asked when they entered the room.
“We’ve been at the hospital all day,” Star answered.
“That must have been fun.”
“No, it was a total nightmare. First of all, Discord was narrating out loud about a book he was writing. Then we all started sharing stories about each other. Twilight tried to kill Discord because he uses her son for a drug deal that went bad. Finally, a yeti broke into the hospital and we had to beat it up.”
“Uhh. Star that last part didn’t happen.”
“What,” Star asked with a questionable look. “Yes it did.”
“No it didn’t Discord has a bad habit of making a dream feel so real. One time he made me think that a huge yellow bear thing named Hypno kidnapped all the kids in town and we have go into the everfree forest.
“What are you talking about?” Night asked walking into the room.
“It’s not important. Is this gonna take long."
“Don't worry, I’ll make this quick since today was pretty odd. I wanted to give you all a heads up. Four weeks from now Ponyville will be apart of the new years festival.
“How is that our problem?” Clover asked. “Is it going to be big?”
“Huge.” Night answered. “A lot of top name music groups and foods are going to be here. The reason I’m telling you all is because you will be in charge of shy, ground and crowd control when the day comes.”
“Neat.” Storm said. “We just got out of a blizzard and now we are planning a festival. Oh, happy day.”
Author's Note
This is not my best work
