Chapter 1: Opening

Night by night, Discords sleep was riddled with nothing but nightmares of the past.

He had cut off Luna's ability to see his dreams early into the first night, and luckily for him she has yet to interrogate him about what little she might have seen. On the 4th day, he decided to just stop sleeping all together. Discord didn't have to sleep anyway, it was just something he got in the habit of early on. Even when he discovered that he had almost limitless endurance, it was just an easy way to pass a few hours.

Discord stood up and looked out the window of his relatively normal house, compared to the outside realm of chaos. He could manipulate anything he wanted with his mind alone, so why was dreaming so special? He couldn't put his claw on it. He brought forth some wild creatures of his imagination, normally they would make him feel better, but today it just wasn't doing the trick. He just stared blankly at them through his little square window as they eventually floated off to join the rest of his insane creations.

Falling upwards onto an upside down couch. He let memories of the distant past play over and over in his head. If dreaming about it wasn't helping, might as well just lay and think about it. Discord has had years on top of years in both stone and Tartarus collectively to ponder his existence, but even now, it sometimes manages to sneak back into his head. He tossed and turned for a couple of hours until his future vision kicked in. Some pony was going to come to his door.

Two knocks, and Discord was on his feet opening the door to see who it was.

"Hi Discord!" Pinkie Pie said, smiling away as she looked up at him.

"I remember telling you and your friends to give me a warning before barging into my dimension." Discord replied, looking down at her. He heavily lacked the levels of enthusiasm he normally has.

Pinkie started to bounce through the open doorway. "You seem to see and hear us all the time anyway, sometimes I'm amazed we can even surprise you." She grinned as she playfully nudged him. "We guess that you just know when any pony comes in."

Discord watched her and hesitated to answer. "It's Complicated." He took a deep breath. "Why are you here Pinkie?"

"Fluttershy is curious why you didn't show up for tea yesterday. When you didn't come this morning she was scared that you got sick again and sent me to check on you."

She pulled a thermometer from her mane and hopped up to place it into his mouth. She landed and brought a clipboard around from behind her.

"If you could tell me what number that says please?"

"Pinkie, I'm not sick." Discord said pulling the thermometer out.

Pinkie would start to make a big gasp.

"I'm just... busy."

Pinkie looked up at him, saddened. "Too busy to spend time with your friends?"

Discord had a hard time brute forcing pinkie's sad puppy dog face, he knelt down and put his hand on her front leg.

"I'm sorry, the truth is.. I've been having nightmares."

Pinkie's expression swapped back over to her regular joyful self.

"Princess Luna can help!"

Discord just looked at her thinking of how he's been shutting her out of his recent dreams.

"I'll go get her right now!" Pinkie exclaimed before making a dash out the door and back to where she normally enters the chaos realm from.

"Pinkie Wait!" But she was too far gone. He knew catching her would just make her more suspicious, she wasn't the brightest pony, but she can be clever when she wants to be.

He sighed again, walked back to the center of the living room, dropped the couch from the ceiling to the floor, and plopped down on it laying on its underside.