For Whom The Wedding Bells Toll
Discord’s Proposal
Previous ChapterNext ChapterDiscord awoke one Saturday morning earlier than usual, alone in his own dimension. He sighed, stroking his chaotic mess up mane. "So many restless nights, oh my Celestia…" He shrugged, smiling. The aging house had sheltered him all his days at his dimension, but in a matter of weeks, he would be saying farewell to his old home.
Suddenly a noise from outside had his ears pricked up as he snapped to Equestria prime. Someone was approaching to Ponyville. He glanced down in a reflex, as he saw who he thought he saw...2 regal mares. One white with a sea mane, the other Navy with a navy flowing mane. Discord knew who they were as he ran up to hug them!
"Tia! Lulu!" He jumped in excitement at the sight of the regal sisters. He had his arms around the two sisters in four film frames. "You have come back to moi!" His scent and hug began to build visibly.
"Oof!" Luna felt her breath squeezed from her body. "We missed you too."
"We wanted so much to see you, but We've had some royal duties." Celestia said, smiling sheepishly.
"I know." he said. “But, it is the weekend, time for the relaxation, no?" Discord's chaotic tail enwrapped Celestia and Luna, pulling them close to his chest, still warm from his night's rest.
"You really are pleased to see us." Luna said happily. "We just couldn't get away from Silver Shoals." Her tail swished in excitement.
"That place." the draconniqus's ears went down. "The only surprise is that you have not, bumped each other off by now."
"Well, there WAS that incident last year with the Swanifying Ceremony that we left Twilight, not knowing that we don't usuall do this by ourselves..." Celestia recalled.
The younger sister shivered. "One month more and we will be free of all that. After...have you ze plans?" She asked.
Discord smiled as he relaxed on the warm green grass, enjoying the feel of Celestia and Luna's tail wrapped around him. "Nothing that doesn't involve you." Hee kissed the White and navy alicorns lovingly.
The two sisters gave an almost feline purr, leaning happily into the kiss. Their heat increased.
Just at that moment came a hail from outside. "Discord? Anypony home?"
Discord glanced from behind. "Eh! We wait for ages then three come together. I've been alone four days and now Fluttershy and the gang come to visit?" He gave his lovers a quick smooch and greeted the gang. "Fluttershy! Twilight! Rainbow Dash! The instant party!"
Fluttershy grinned at the sight of the trio, and the scent hanging in the air. "You should have one of those redneck bumper stickers, Dissy – "If this date's a'rockin, don't come a knockin". It's your birthday next week, I know! “Shall we get you one?"
Discord blushed. "You have come to join my party?"
"Nah. We wouldn't all fit on that seat." Fluttershy cocked her head critically. "We're on the way to the Ponyville Mall; want to come along?"
"Oh, yes! I would!" Discord shouted in glee. "I have been putting my nose to the grindstone all week and living on my lowly dimension and tea parties. A little time to digest all that chaos will be fine. Eh, Girls?"
Celestia smiled. "Hanging out at a mall with my student and her friends? Canterlot ponies would say, 'that's SO beneath my dignity'. With you guys though, oh, yes!" Twenty minutes later the five ponies and one mismatched creature arrived at the Ponyville Mall, which was right NEXT to the Spa where Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity and Applejack hang out.
"I feel chaotic royal vibes." She said to her friends... crass commercialization totally running wild. Ewwww..." Rainbow Dash joked, flicking her wing-fingers as if to throw mud off them.
"Sorry. That's from me." Discord said as he grinned. "There's a perfect dress in there somewhere and I want it! Greedy for that? Guilty, guilty, guilty! Wonderful bridal dress, you won't escape Discord the Hunter!" He spin-changed to an Indiana Jones outdoor outfit, except instead of a whip he had a string of charge cards he snapped.
"Are you not in ... the market, Twilight?" Rainbow asked as she raised an eyebrow.
The egghead sniffed." Well, yes, I could. Me and Fluttershy are getting married." She said happily as Rainbow Dash gasped in excitement."
As they walked into the great air-conditioned palace of purchasing, Rainbow Dash looked up at the distant roof. "I'm planning Applejack has a long engagement herself, with Big Mac. If it's all her life, I bet they're both all right with that." She said contently.
Just then the lift arrived and the friends stepped in. Twilight's eyes were wide as she read the directory screen. "Fifth floor - there's that new oriental bridal boutique, "Wedding peach." I've heard about that place." She could have spin-changed into any outfit she could imagine, but this was different. "It's just the place for me. When you think about it, I suppose I am peach & Purple-colored..."
Fortunately, the Japanese anime bridal wear franchise was quite used to mares with demanding tastes who insisted on trying out every style in the place.
"It's a good thing Cadence is not here," Fluttershy commented as her lover vanished into the changing-room for the twenty-third time.
"Why?" Discord asked. "Because it's bad luck for her to see her bride-to-be in her dress before the big day?" By now, he was staring dreamily at rows of display models - the "tail outside the dress" look was definitely back in, he noted with relief.
"Not only that...." Rainbow said to him. "But, by now, she would be so dazed at Rarity that she could appear in a 1977 retro-punk polythene bag dress and Cadence would nod if Twilight's sister-in-law asked if she liked it!" She fell on the floor, laughing uncontrollably.
Discord looked at the dresses through the display window and smiled. Suddenly he took a deep breath as he turned to his two lovers. He was ready to make his move. "Celestia, Luna. What color would a regal white alicorn and regal navy alicorn bride both look best in?" he asked.
The 2 sister's eyes went wide in a Wild Take that would have won bonus points in the lottery. They looked deep into Discord's eyes, feeling their hearts pounding. "Is this ... a proposal?" Luna asked in curiosity.
Discord kissed the two sisters on the cheek. "Yes. I don't care which of you wears the dress - or both." He got on one knee and got out a box and opened it to reveal a ring. "Princess Celestia & Princess Luna, will you marry me?"
"YES!" Luna & Celestia shouted in joy with the Royal Canterlot voice as she and her sister flung herself into Discord’s arms and hugged with a force that Raven Inkwell would have envied. "Oh, yes, yes, yes!" Giant heart shapes rose from the couple like bubbles from a bubble machine.
“Whoa!" Twilight said as she stepped out of the changing room, now back in her usual clotheless body. Her ears went right up at the sight. "Did I ... miss something?"
“It's a totally harmonious meeting of minds, and the rest." Fluttershy nodded approvingly. "So, are you going to like name the big day? If you want, I can check when the stars are favourable."
The two sisters blinked, still held tight in Discord’s arms. "After we get ready for our engagement," Luna gasped, struggling for breath.
"Apart from that, my sister and I will let you know." Celestia gasped as well.
Rainbow Dash clapped her hooves together delightedly. "Another wedding maybe? While everypony’s still here? That'd be so great." She turned to the draconniqus. “They said yes, didn’t they?” He nodded, making the wonderbolt say “Ohmygosh!” A myriad of times!
Twilight grinned. "If you make it a week or so after Fluttershy and I, we'd love to be there.” She said sneakily. “Before that, we'll be on our honeymoon. With "Do Not Disturb" signs on the door. Big, glow-in-the dark signs."
“We'll let you know." Discord said as he kissed his regal fiancées again. Suddenly his ears went up. "It's a good thing we're at the Mall already... is there a good place here for engagement rings?"
Lunchtime saw the ponies having made a "definite maybe" decision on a white lace and taffeta bridal gown with a veil held up on an almost medieval styled wimple to clear their ears.
“I can't believe you three chose rings in forty minutes flat!" Twilight said in shock as she realized she forgot her salad for a minute to stare blissfully at the matching plain silver engagement rings Celestia, Luna and Discord wore as they walked hoof in hand towards the food court. "Everypony will think it's a shotgun wedding!"
The two royal sisters giggled. "Less is more, as they say.” Celestia said to them. “
I agree with my sister.” Luna chimed in. “It is the partners who count more than a whole Ponyville Bridal wear catalogue."
Discord pressed his coffee-bean nose to Celestia and Luna’s broad white and navy muzzles. He squeezed the white furred hoof and the navy furred hoof in his own tanish yellow-furred lion paw. "A shotgun wedding? That sounds all right to me. Which one of us has the, umm, little surprise on the way ... and how do we manage it?"
“We will try," Celestia said firmly, but lovingly to her lover. "We are immortals, Discord. Its impossible that it’s just a few preparations away."
As the ponies left, Rainbow and Fluttershy found Applejack as she was coming out of her barn and decided to tell her the big news. “Discord did it, AJ!” Rainbow said in excitement as Applejack gasped in amazement. “Hook, line and sinker!” Now, their wedding was going to be prepared and a little chaos and royal planning goes a long way.
Author's Note
That’s two proposals down, three to go! How do you think Pinkie’s proposal will go for Zecora? Find out next!
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