A Butterfly Over Chaos

Knock Knock

''Who is knocking so late? I am coming please wait,'' Zecora said walking up towards the door.

As she opened up the door, a creature with mis-matched wings, arms, legs and antlers with a pony-like head was standing in front of her. He greeted her in despite of her mumbling and her tail up towards the back of her black and white striped head. She was confused why he was here until Discord told her he had something bugging in his head lately.

She asked for him to sit down directly in front of her on a table. She asked him to continue speaking to get some facts about him and these things inside his head that is bugging him.

He responds, ''so as you can see Fluttershy and I are best friends and has the strongest friendship between two creatures in all of Equestia. Nopony but her was able to reform me and offered me her friendship. We got to know each other by having tea parties and our friendship has gotten closer than ever. Ponies tempt to say I have a crush on her but that's not true. So I want you to show them Fluttershy and I are just friends.''

Zecora rubbed her chin to get an idea. She then pops a lightbulb in her head. ''I can see what I can do, with mixing something in my brew.''

Discord raised his thick white eyebrows at her while she stirred up a vision in her brew. It showed him a yellow pegasus hugging a draconequus. He opened up his mouth but closed it again. ''What is this?'' he asked confusingly.

''This is what happens when two becomes one, they create a magic more powerful than a wand,'' she indicated.

He said waffling, ''so you are saying our love is more powerful than anything?'' She nodded her head gently which made him burst out laughing. ''You really are a paranoid and insane zebra.'' Zecora flinched her eyebrow at him which made him stop laughing, ''you may be in denial first and scared she may break you but once you open up, things won't become worse.''

He thought to himself by smoothing out his white goatee and finally got to the point. ''Oh, you are good!'' He enthusiastically zooms out of the door and closes it. Zecora cheerfully closes her eyes and chuckles.

At Twilight's castle, Spike is lying on his throne, whereas Big Mac is lying on Rainbow Dash's throne doing nothing. They are bored waiting for Discord to enter the world of Ogre's and Oubliette's as it is their first guys night in forever with what all the responsibilities they have had during the years. Spike blew up a feather from his tummy to the air. Big Mac was just sewing up his yoke that he wears around his neck for pulling carts. Spike started up with a conversation to enthusiast the moment.

''I don't think he will ever come play with us tonight as we did ignore him all these years when he needed us.''

''Ee-yup.''

''I mean it's not our fault we had responsibilities to do.''

''Ee-yup.''

''I mean you have Sugar Belle, I have Rarity... Practically. And Discord, he has no idea on what love is that's why he hasn't yet asked out Fluttershy still.''

Big Mac nodded his head.

''You know,'' Spike sat up on his throne and held the arm bars with his claws. ''I just gotten a genuine idea.'' Big Mac tilted his head. ''How about we hook them up just like how the cutie mark crusaders, Discord and I hooked you and Sugar Belle up.'' Big Mac swayed his head.

''What do you mean no?'' he said. Big Mac finally said something, ''just by that it all became chaotic.''

''Yeah... But Discord is not in this with us. In fact, we are helping him to ask Fluttershy out.'' Big Mac nodded his head. Spike gasp as he got a lightbulb occur in his head but thought to himself that it wouldn't be such a good idea. Big Mac gasps and whispers to Spike in his ear just in case if Discord manages to hear. Spike nodded his head and repeated yes every time he whispered inside his ear. ''Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go!'' Spike exclaimed.

They went inside the Everfree forest and tried to be careful to not run into dangerous creatures. Unfortunately and regrettably, they did. After a few minutes as they entered the forest, they trembled upon timberwolves. They both screamed in terror until Big Mac thought to himself. To make my parents proud, I have to save the two of us from us being eaten and harmed. His parents were killed by timberwolves so rest in peace.

''WHERE IS FLUTTERSHY WHEN YOU NEED HER?'' Spike shouted whilst running away from them with Big Mac until he stopped for a minute.

Big Mac confidently stepped in front of the timberwolves, leaving Spike calling out for him to step further away from being killed. The timberwolves breath stank like garlic dipped in ketchup. They drooled spit on top of him and was ready to eat him alive until he bravely kicked them out of it and gave them so many punches. Spike was flabbergasted and mind blown. The timberwolves bodies fell in front of the purple and green scaled dragon. There was blood all over them.

Spike's mouth was wide opened and was shocked. He ran over to Big Mac and hugged him. ''You are alright! I mean, you killed them! What? How?'' Spike was speechless.

Big Mac smiled and told him to carry on walking to tell him what encouraged him to beat the heck out of those stinky, pony-eating timberwolves. Spike was tearing down when he said his parents deaths by timberwolves had encouraged him.

''Wow,'' he said shockingly. ''Your parents must be so proud up there.''

Big Mac slightly smiled and realised they are finally here at Zecora's hut. They knocked on the door. She opened it and let them in. They explained the whole story and asked for advice on how to get Discord and Fluttershy to be together.

She chuckled. ''What a coincidence, he came for the exact same reason from the previous incidence.''

''So that's where he was an hour ago and why he didn't come to our meeting.'' Spike glared at Big Mac. ''We thought it was because he didn't want to see us for how we ignored him for so many years.''

Big Mac says, ''so you know how to get Fluttershy and Discord together?''

Zecora smiled. ''I don't even have to try but I am part of this tri.''

Spike questioned, ''what is that supposed to mean?''

Zecora sprinkled in some gold dust into her cauldron and stirred up a vision brew. She showed the stallion and dragon the brew. ''How is this possible?'' Spike asked. Big Mac nodded his head at Spike's sentence.
Zecora explained, ''falling in love is so easy to do, he fell for her right out of the blue. Hearing her voice and seeing her smile, she stole his heart and he just went wild.''

Big Mac listened carefully to her words and looked down back at the brew. He glared at Zecora again. ''You can't give a straight answer to us, can you?''

Spike yelled out, ''I GOT IT!'' Which made the pony and the zebra question and confused.

At Fluttershy's cottage, Fluttershy was in her bed trying to fall asleep but had strange things on her mind about her feelings towards Discord. Her animal friends were there to comfort her on her comfortable, butterfly patterned bed. Do I really love him? What would my friends think about this? Does he feel the same way? She thought to herself and sneaked under her pillow to get away from the thoughts in her head.

She stood up and got out of her luxurious bed and fluttered out of her window to head to somepony she could trust. Somepony with good advice. Somepony with unbiased judgement.

She travelled across Ponyville to reach to the destination of her friends home, Sweet Apple Acres. She knew that no one would be up in the middle of the night so got an idea in her head. She saw a bucket full of apples next to her and searched for Apple Jack's bedroom window. She banged apples at her window to wake her up and open up the window.

Apple Jack's eye widened awake and covered her ears with her pillow to go back to sleep. She could still hear the clutter so stood up from her bed and searched where the noise had came from. She saw from her window that apples were banging on the glass. She opened it and saw a yellow pegasus on the ground with a bucket of apples. She accidently threw an apple beside her and inside her room.

''Oops,'' she said, ''I'm so sorry but can you please come down?''

Apple Jack looked at her clock in her bedroom. ''Fluttershy? What are you doing here in the middle of the night, banging apples at my window?''

''All will be answered when you come down, meet me at the log near the Everfree forest pronto,'' she fluttered away.

What is she up to this time? Apple Jack thought to herself and quietly got her rope from inside her hat and threw it down the window, then tied a knot at the very end of her window sill so she could climb down it silently and not wake her family up.

Fluttershy was sitting on the log next to the everfree forest, waiting for Apple Jack to come over. Few minutes later, she came over and asked her why she was needed here. Fluttershy explained, ''promise me to not tell anypony, not even your family. I chose you because Twilight would lecture me, Rarity would overreact, Rainbow Dash would freak out and Pinkie Pie...''

''Okay, okay, I get it. So what is it you want to me talk about?'' she asked.

She sighed and took a deep breath, ''well... So you know how Discord and I have been really close friends ever since I reformed him.''

''Yeah.''

She took deep breath again, ''I think I caught feelings for him.'' She said as fast as she could. Apple Jack choked. ''I knew you would freak out!'' said Fluttershy.

''This is incredible!'' she exclaimed.

''What?''

''I have waited so long to hear you say that and so did the others. We all knew ya two have had some chemistry going on.''

She blushed hard. Apple Jack nudged her shoulder and smirked at her. Soon after, Apple Jack asked her a question she knew she would be too embarrassed to answer but unexpectedly, she was not. ''So have ya figured out on how to confess your love towards him?''

''That's what I wanted to talk to you about, Apple Jack.'' She looked down at the ground to hide her smile. ''I can't keep thinking about him in my sleep and I'm scared that he might end our friendship or he might not feel the same way.''

Apple Jack looked at the Everfree forest and got an idea popping in her head. ''I think I got the perfect idea.''

As they entered through the treacherous Everfree forest, they stumbled over two dead creatures. They were petrified. It smelt even worse than a timberwolves toenail. Okay, maybe because they are timberwolves. Anyways, Apple Jack saw the blood on top of them and wondered if these are the same timberwolves that killed her parents but she denied it straight away as she knew her parents death occurred in her life a long time ago. She didn't know timberwolves could die. She was terrified than ever but not as much as when she last saw her parents.

''How did this happen?'' questioned Fluttershy. ''I thought timberwolves could never die and instead kill ponies.''

''Me too,'' said Apple Jack in a cracking voice. Fluttershy realised that cracking voice. A tear dropped from her eyes. She put her hoof around her and questioned, ''why are you crying, Apple Jack? Are you okay?''

She took a deep breath but couldn't carry on as she got a vision of her as a filly in the hospital, crying on her parents death bed. Mama, Papa, please don't die, I don't wanna leave ya. Little Apple Jack said.

Apple Jack couldn't control her mind and fell on the ground unconscious on Fluttershy's lap. ''Apple Jack!'' she exclaimed.