"Boring," muttered Princess Luna as she walked down a corridor. She'd just been in a meeting with the griffons and dragons with her sister to make peace. It hadn't really worked out that well, in her opinion. A family heirloom was roasted to a crisp, never to be seen again! And it had been her favorite one ever, which was saying something as she absolutely hated antiques. But it had been a moon and sun interlocking. It reminded her of her sister and herself. And it had been roasted to a crisp! And those stupid dragons hadn't even apologised or offered to make a new one! They'd looked at it and shrugged! They are going to rue the day they set foot in that room, thought Luna as she strolled through the Throne Room.
"I'm bored," she said to the air thickly. Of course, it didn't reply. But somepony-or rather, somebody did.
"Well, I am absolutely certain that can be fixed, can't it?" said a mischievous draconequus, beaming at her from the air.
"Go away, Discord," muttered Luna, cursing the day she knew Discord existed. She strode on, taking larger strides as she went.
"Oh, but I know exactly the place you want to go," Discord cried, cracking into a spot some three metres in front of her. "Come with me, and meet Luna." Luna stared in confusion.
"I've already met Luna," she said, "because I am Luna, you doofus." Discord smiled.
"Not my Luna, you haven't," he cried. "My Luna is weird, wacky and wild."
"Exactly your type," agreed Luna.
"My Luna is unquestionably FUN!" he shouted.
"Of course she is, or you'd hate her," smiled Luna. Discord cackled.
"My Luna is the world's most interesting living being! Except me, of course," he added as an afterthought. Luna frowned.
"Two things, Discord: One, am I none of those things? And Two, why did you say living being instead of pony? Surely Luna is a pony?" Discord sniggered.
"Course you're none of those things, Luna. And of course Luna isn't a pony! No sensible pony would name a common child after a princess." He chuckled with glee. "No, my Luna is a human. And she's the wackiest human ever to be known." He snapped his fingers and in a blinding flash of light they were gone.
It was the fact that Luna Lovegood was the wackiest human ever to be known that made her stay perfectly calm when, in a blinding flash of light, Discord and a pretty midnight blue pony with wings and a horn appeared on the Hogwarts Express.
"Hello Discord," she said in a dreamy voice. "Who's this?" Discord bowed and leapt aside to reveal the pretty blue pony. Thunderous applause (most likely made by Discord) sounded from the distance.
"This, dear Luna," he said majestically, "is Her Royal Highness, Princess Luna of Equestria." He finished with a flourish. Luna giggled dreamily.
"Luna," she said, "just like me. Are you an outcast?" This was directed at Princess Luna, who jumped.
"Err... somewhat," she replied nervously. Luna giggled dreamily again.
"We're similar, you and I," she sighed. "I'm going to tell Harry." She wandered off down the passage.
"Hello, Harry," she said. "There's a princess on the train." Hermione snorted.
"Don't believe her, Harry," Luna heard Hermione say as she walked away. "Everyone knows what Luna Lovegood said is a load of tosh." Luna didn't care. She was an oddity, always had been, always would be. And anyway, people never believed her. It wasn't exactly new or anything.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WE'RE TRAPPED HERE?!?!" cried an angry voice from her compartment. A quieter voice mumbled something back. "NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" the angry voice screamed. "YOU DIDN"T WARN ME-" The person shouting had stopped. Luna opened the door.
"So you can get back and not me?" Princess Luna said coldly. Discord nodded.
"I'm afraid so," Discord said. Spotting Luna, he cried, "Luna, do you have an invisibility cloak?" Luna shook her head. "Curses," he muttered. Then he brightened. "Ah, well, I can scrounge up something." He whistled and, with a loud crack, disappeared.
"Looks as though I'm stuck here, apparently," said the Princess. She sighed. "Oh, I'll get used to it, but that won'tstop it being... different. Luna," Princess Luna said. "Where in Equestria are we."
"Not in Equestria," replied Luna Lovegood. "We're going to Hogwarts."
"Hi," Harry Potter said that evening as he was unpacking. Discord had appeared in the room. "What do you want now?" Discord looked slightly sheepish.
"I need to, err, borrow your cloak," Discord said. "If you need it, call me and it will come," he added, seeing the look on Harry's face. Harry shook his head and sighed.
"I don't know why I ever agree to your wacky plans, Discord, but they usually work, so fine," he said, handing over the cloak.
"Thank you!" cried Discord. "And good night!" And with that he disappeared. Ron Weasley, Harry's best friend, looked at the spot Discord had been.
"Bloody hell," he said, "who was that?" Harry grinned.
"That?" he said. "That was living Chaos, I tell you. Living Chaos." And the Boy Who Lived rolled into bed, chuckling at the bemused expression on Ron's face. He fell asleep and dreamed of Discord dancing around with Fred and George, who were eating Fainting Fancies and wearing extendable ears.
"Harry," said Hermione one lunchtime, "hasn't Luna been acting...well, stranger than usual? She talks to herself so much more often now. And then there's an answer!" Hermione looked mildly frightened. "Do you think she's alright? Or has she gone mad?" But Harry, remembering Discord asking to borrow his cloak, grinned.
"Nah," he said. "No more mad than usual."
And he could swear a blue pony winked at him from next to Luna.
Luna winked at the boy with the scar staring at Luna, and giggled when he jolted back in surprise.
"I wish I could see Tia's face when Discord tells her I'm stuck here," she told Luna. They guffawed together while the humans around her started in amazement of such a sight as Luna Lovegood laughing at, as far as anyone knew, absolutely nothing.
