Twilight Sparkle, a lavender alicorn with a navy blue mane and tail with pink and purple stripes, was sitting in her room reading. Of course, this is almost every day but there is something special about what she is reading. She found a book on ancient artifacts written by Starswirl himself.
Her dark purple eyes flew across the pages, eager to gain everything the book has to offer. She was nearly brimming with excitement at the artifacts she had found, from the Elements of Harmony to something called…. She stopped on the last artifact.
Her face portrayed shock and grand curiosity at what she had found. The artifact was in the shape of a 6-pointed star in front of a golden apple, the apple symbolizing chaos. She looked down at the name of the artifact, intent on finding out its name when,
“YAAHHH!” yelled Twilight as she looked at her flank to find it singed.
She looked up and glared at the dark grey cloud, but it wasn’t the cloud she was angry at, it was the creature on top of it laughing his butt off. It was Discord, the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, and he was about to realize why you should never disturb Twilight while she was engrossed in a story.
Twilight’s horn glowed brightly and she shoots a charged beam of electricity right at him, giving a self-satisfied smirk as he yelps in slight pain.
“Why would you do that?! It was only a joke, my dear!” Discord exclaims. Twilight rolled her eyes in annoyance, “Everyone in Ponyville knows that, when I am trying to read something important you shouldn’t disturb me.”
Discord scoffed “Well no one told me that, Ms. Sparkle. I was under the assumption that you could take a joke, but clearly I was wrong.”
“Hey!” Twilight flew to his eye level and looked straight into his eyes, “I can take a joke, but people know that when the joke is played on me at the wrong time it won’t be funny when I get angry at their attempts!”
Discord huffs and turns his head away from her, “Well, then I won’t give you the present I had for you then.”
Twilight eyes soften and her eyes turn curious again, “You got me something?”
“Well of course! You’re one of my greatest friends, along with Fluttershy! I already gave her a gift, so I decided to give one to you.”
Then, a purple box with Twilight’s 6-pointed star on the sides appeared in his hands. He handed it to her with a nervous demeanor, rubbing the back of his neck
Twilight looked from him to the box, and slowly pulled the navy blue ribbon tying it together. She opens the box, and gasps at what is inside.
Inside the box, was the artifact that she had been looking at in one of the last pages in Starswirl’s book. It was the 6-pointed star and apple that she was about to look at the name for. “Discord,” She started, amazed at what he got her “where did you get this?” said Twilight in a voice filled with awe.
“I got in in the crystal caverns beneath Canterlot. I figured that you would appreciate something found a long time ago, something rare.” Discord turned his head to the side again, but this time there was a small pink tinge coloring his cheeks.
Twilight smiles and gives Discord a hug, a small smile on her face, “Thank you Discord, this is the nicest thing you’ve ever done.”
The coloring on his cheeks darkened and he said a small “Your Welcome” and poofed to Fluttershy’s.
Twilight looked outside and saw that the sun was about to set, so she put the book back in its place, put her gift from Discord on her nightstand and went to bed, just as the sun had set over the horizon.
Unbeknownst to her, the relic had started glowing a bright blue and shoved its magic into the alicorn princess…..
-The Next Morning-
Rays of golden light hit Twilight’s eyes, as the sun appeared over the horizon. The purple bookworm groaned, and turned over in her bed to block out the sun. As she turned over, she noticed something different about the way her hooves felt. She moved her hooves again, only to find that she had dark purple claws instead.
Twilight threw off the pillows and screamed as she looked down at her body. Instead of the body of a pony, she had a long lavender snake-like body with fluff at the base of her neck. She has a light purple dragon’s tail with a tuft of her normal tail at the end, and her hind legs had become a dogs, except dark purple.
Twilight ran to her bathroom, hoping nothing else had changed, but she was wrong again. Her mane had become longer and hung down a good length of her neck. But that was not the most shocking change, as she had horns growing just behind her ears and they were about a half a foot long, and the whites of her eyes had turned light purple and she still had the regular color to her eyes, but her pupils had turned red.
You know, she looked an awful lot like-
“DISCORD!” Twilight screeched
Discord suddenly appeared in her room. “Really Twilight, I could hear you halfway across my dimension of chaos! What do you-”
Discord paused, as he did a double-take at who he is looking at. He knows it’s Twilight, but she somehow looked more appealing this way. He had not seen another of his species in 5000 years, and is very flustered.
Discord’s fur fluffed up as he gained a heavy blush on his cheeks, staring at the former pony with wide eyes.
“Oh boy,” Twilight started, annoyance clear in her voice “This is gonna be a looooooong day.”
And so she went to go snap the Lord of Chaos out of his trance, and get an explanation on what had happened to her.
Author's Note
This took two days to write, so I am proud of this!
Twilight was a bit pissed that she got turned into a Draconequus, and that Discord is just standing there dazed. She wobbled over to his still form, unused to walking on two legs, and waved a clawed hand in front of his face. She got no response from him, and she decided to poke him in between his eyes, and still got nothing from him.
Twilight made a deadpan face and gave off a frustrated groan. ‘How am I gonna get ‘Dazedcord’ from his trance if he-’
Twilight then had the most brilliant idea, that was sure to work. She put her hand flat against his cheek, moved it backward, and swung it back as hard as she could. A loud smacking sound could be heard as Discord gave a loud yelp and jumped backward.
“Ow! What was that for!?” asked Discord, rubbing his slightly red cheek. Twilight huffed and turned her head sideways, “You weren't moving, or responding to anything I did so I decided to see if pain would work.”
Discord huffed, “Well it worked, alright. You hit hard, you know.”
They moved from the bathroom doorway and Twilight, still unused to walking upright, fell forward after a few steps. Discord, who was watching her, acted quickly and caught her. Twilight fell into his chest and opened her eyes. She then looked up at Discord and blushed a bit from their positioning.
Discord was looking down at the purple Draconequus, and blushed a bit as he asked, “Are you ok, Twilight?” She stood shakily and pushed some of her hair back, “I’m fine.”
Then she shook her head and put on a serious face, and asked “Did you have something to do with this transformation? Because last time I checked, I was not a Draconequus when I went to bed.”
Discord shook his head negative, “No, I did not. I would not sense any type of chaos magic from you but my own if I did.” Twilight gave Discord a questioning look, and he continued. “If I had changed somepony’s physical form, I would be able to sense my magic keeping the change. That is also how I can keep track of the chaos I cause, otherwise being the keeper of chaos would be a hard job.”
“So then, what do you mean by magic other than your own? Is there someone else who can use chaos magic other than you?” Twilight asked, curious. “What I mean, my dear” Discord began “Is that your body is now making its own chaos magic, so the only other creature who can use chaos naturally is you.”
Twilight looked floored, “But how? I have never used chaos magic before, and I usually use harmony magic in large quantities. So how would all of that energy convert into-” Twilight suddenly stopped speaking, eyes wide. “What is it, Twilight? Did you figure something out?” Asked Discord.
“The artifact....” Twilight mumbled. Discord looked a little concerned and asked “Could you speak up, my dear? You’re mumbling.” The former pony then spoke up “The Artifact of Magic Reflection takes the magic of one creature, and stores it. Then once another creature finds it, it would change the creature who picked it up to fit that type of magic.”
Discord then had a look of realization on his face, “Oh, crud. So my present…”
He looked down, upset that his gift had done this to his friend. Twilight gave him a look of sympathy, pat his shoulder, and said, “You get an A for affort.”
Discord immediately looked at her with confusion, "What? Don't you mean Effort?"
"But Effort is spelled with an E, so it would be Affort." She said to him with a smile.
Discord raised a brow, "That makes absoulutely no sense!"
"Then tell me how to spell effort with an A."
Discord remained silent.
Twilight gave a victorious smile, "That's what I thought!"
Author's Note
HI! Its been a while huh?! I had to reread this because it's been a long time since I was into the MLP fandom. It was like rereading someone else's story, and it was amazing! Hopefully, this chapter was worth the wait!
