A Butterfly Over Chaos
Chapter 4: Heartbroken
Previous ChapterA rainbow maned, blue cyan pegasus was resting on a comfortable, luxurious and delectable cloud during the evening as she was tired with what all the wonderbolt training she has been doing all day under Spitfire's wing, so she decided it would be best for her to take a nap.
Suddenly, a pink cotton candy cloud moves slowly towards Rainbow Dash's cloud. She wondered if a familiar draconquus she knows has something to do with this but she could not find anyone on top of it, so she got into the perfect position on her cloud again and go back to her nap.
A few moments later, the draconquus materializes right next to the rainbow maned pegasus and frightens her to wake up.
''AHHH!'' she screamed. ''Discord? What in the wide world of Equestia would you wake me up for?'' she said aggressively.
''So sorry to wake you up, my little pony,'' he said. ''But I am here to...'' He materializes a hoofball in his paw and spins it in the air. ''Play some hoofball with you.''
''Not right now,'' she stammered. ''Can't you see I'm trying to have a nap here after a long day? Now go find Fluttershy and leave me alone.''
He vanquishes the ball away. ''Fine, party pooper ponies.'' He departed off to his other friends, whereas Rainbow Dash pulled out two small parts of the cloud and plucked it up in her ears to fall back to sleep again and not have any interruptions to destruct her sleep again.
Meanwhile, he materialized inside Rarity's boutique to check on what she has been up to and wonder if she has any free time to hang out with her friends. Discord was extremely heartbroken so to get away with the heartache, he distracts himself with hanging out with ponies.
''Hi, Rarity!'' he exclaimed. ''Are you free today?''
Rarity hums along while sewing up gala dresses and was too distracted to hear Discord. Until, she sees Discord laying upon her bed.
''Oh, Discord. I didn't see you there, darling. What can I do for you? Are you here for a gala suit?''
''Gala suit...?''
''Why, yes. We are not entering the gala with no clothes on. We have to act professional and efficient, after all this is the most prominent party in all of Equestia.''
He smooths out his beard to think he should have Rarity make a suit for him for the gala in order to impress Fluttershy. He then twitches his eye and remembers that Fluttershy does not like him after the... kiss.
''Discord?'' she said. ''Is everything alright? Are you okay?''
Discord sways his head to get away from his thoughts. ''Huh? Oh, yes. I so do want a brilliant suit for the Grand Galloping Gala that is coming up and... I... I... I need to... sp... speak...''
''Just say it, darling.''
''I NEED TO SPEAK WITH YOU!''
Rarity was startled at his tone and widened her eyes. ''About what?'' she asked.
He fidgeted with his disembodied and mis-matched hands. The very tip of his tail formed into the shape of a heart but broke apart, luckily for him she didn't see his variety of symptoms of heartbreak. He turned paler than usual and sweated. His body temperature was as warm as a strove. His heart was filled with a school of students who's brains were burning and wrecked the whole building. That's how heartbroken he was to tell somepony about his feelings. Of course, if he hadn't saw them kiss, he still wouldn't tell anypony as he knew ponies would only judge him. Why would Fluttershy like the Lord of Chaos back? His appearance, his past, his attitude, his mistakes.
Finally, Discord shook his head out of the dark thoughts and got a word out of his mouth. But he still fidgeted with his disembodied hands. He puckered his face and screwed up his eyes.
''I caught Fluttershy kissing another stallion.''
''You what? But she could never, she lo... I mean, I can't imagine Fluttershy the kissing type.''
Discord flinched his eyebrows at her, only for her to appear a pensive facial expression on. He then matched her expression and kneeled down on the floor with his hands scrunched up.
''What's the point of loving somepony when you only know they wouldn't love you back and break your heart!''
Rarity widened her eyes and opened her mouth in shock. ''Y- You... LOVE HER? WE KNEW IT!''
Discord was blushing harder than ever. He turned as red as a tomato. But he denied his love for her immediately. If Discord didn't love Fluttershy then why did he feel heartbroken after they nearly kissed? Why did he always stick up for her every time no matter if anypony would embarrass them? Did he really love her more than a friend or is he just too good into denying his affections towards her?
Rarity examined the blush on his cheek. ''I think it's finally time to tell you that Fluttershy likes you back as well. I mean, if she didn't then she wouldn't stood up for you all the time and be overprotective. She also wouldn't of invite you to her tea parties all the time if she didn't like you.''
''Fluttershy and I are just friends and she perfectly explained it through a kiss. Also, how would you know about love? Romantic EXPERT!''
Rarity stopped her magic and dropped her measurement tape on the ground as she sat down. Discord aggressively stormed out through the boutique.
Discord was walking through Ponyville and saw so many ponies exchanging gifts and kisses. He saw Lyra and Bon Bon giving each other gifts and kissing each other. He thought to himself that even LGBTQ+ ponies can get together but he can't even win one little delicate pony's heart. He also saw Derpy and Dr. Hooves kissing each other. Even a pony who is different... Different, that's it! It's him being different that is preventing Fluttershy from liking him. Why would a shy and graceful pony love a hideous monster that did lots of mistakes in the past?
Though, everypony does mistakes in order to be perfect and there was lots of former villains that were forgiven so many times: Starlight Glimmer, Trixie Lulamoon, Sunset Shimmer, Tempest Shadow, Princess Luna, the changlings. So why did people keep bringing up his past? Just because he is still identified as the Lord of Chaos and has disembodied parts, doesn't mean he is still evil. The only reason why he still act chaotic is because it's in his nature or else he will disappear just like in the episode, ''Discordant Harmony.'' But thanks to Fluttershy, he managed to stop fading away.
He also hates how Princess Twilight Sparkle is worshipped and praised all the time. There shouldn't even be such a thing as leadership in friendship groups, just for countries and kingdoms to lead them and provide them with supplies. It just looks like Twilight is all high and mighty. Why does she get all the fame and glory? There is no such thing as ''perfect.'' They are making it look like Twilight is the only special one just because she was Princess Celestia's faithful student.
Anyways, Discord was tired of thinking and wanted to get away with these thoughts in his mind and hurting in his heart. He found a tree branch he could rest on so materialized up there and slowly slid his eyes closed to sleep.
Meanwhile, Fluttershy was preparing the tea party for Discord as it was Tuesday. She waited for seconds and then seconds turned into minutes. She was tired of waiting so she slowly relaxed her eyelids and closed them to sleep.
In the morning, Fluttershy woke up and yawned. Discord was still not here nor contacted her about why he wasn't able to come yesterday. She began to worry. He never once had missed a tea party before. What if something had happened to him? What if she could possibly had potentially hurt him? But I don't remember doing anything that could of hurt him. She thought to herself.
She stood up from her chair and quickly drank her tea to refill and energise herself in order to search for her closest best friend. She flew out of the window but quickly came back inside to tell Angel bunny to behave and take care of the place.
''You be good now, Angel bunny. Take care of this place till I'm gone and don't worry, you won't feel lonely. I'll only be gone for a few minutes and...''
Angel bunny was tapping his foot on the floor with his arms folded against his chest.
This caught Fluttershy's attention to listen and quickly went outside of the window again. Angel bunny trotted towards the window and closed it. Fluttershy came back to the window but it was closed. Fortunately, she could hear nothing so she assumed everything was fine. She flew away from her cottage to begin her search for her fellow draconequus friend.
Fluttershy searched everywhere in Ponyville for her friend. She even checked in Starlight Glimmer's bedroom, to be precise in her sock drawer. She also flew all around cloudsdale. She sat down on a cloud to rest but realised it looking oddly shaped. She picked up the layers of the cloud but couldn't find any pony or creature.
Fluttershy then travelled to Sweet Apple Acres to ask the apple family if they had any chance of Discord coming here or if they had seen him anywhere.
''Discord?'' said Apple Jack. ''No, I haven't seem him anywhere. Come to think of it, I haven't seem him all week and weren't you two supposed to have a tea party yesterday as it was Tuesday?''
''That's what I am here for, Apple Jack,'' she stammered. ''He didn't attend at all yesterday nor given me a letter saying so. I'm so worried about him, what if something had happened to him? What if he's mad at me?''
''I wouldn't stress too much about him, after all he is the Lord of Chaos. He can protect himself with his magic.''
''I guess you are right,'' said Fluttershy. ''And also, do you mind if I take some apples off your hooves? You see Angel bunny has been feeling a lot stressed lately.''
''I'm not surprised,'' she responded. ''You are stressed as well but sure, just take the whole basket over there.'' She gestured over towards the basket full of apples sitting next to a already-picked tree.
''Thank you so much, Apple Jack!'' She flew over to the basket and laid it on her back to trot out of Sweet Apple Acres and find her friend then put these apples in her cottage.
Fluttershy was walking through Ponyville with a basket full of apples. Alternatively, she sees a rattle snake tail hanging from a tree branch. She tilted her head up to see if it belongs to somepony (or somecreature) she knows. She sees her draconquus friend and calls out his name.
''Discord!'' she shouts.
The draconequus twitches his eye to the sound of the delicate voice he promised himself to never hear that voice again, with what had happened. He looks down on the ground and sees the yellow pegasus. She was still attractive to him. He quickly rotates his head to the position where he was minding his own business.
Fluttershy was confused why he had ignored her like that. Perhaps he didn't hear her low voice. If that's so then why did he quickly turned his head away after he saw her? She called out for Discord again and this time she wanted an explanation to why Discord ignored her when she first called him.
''Discord!'' she shouted again. ''Why are you ignoring me?''
Discord thought to himself, I can't ignore this sweet little pony forever. He shook his head. No. If she's so innocent then why did she kiss that stallion? Oh, who am I kidding? I can't ignore her and... perhaps I should tell my feelings, even if I get hurt. Just go for it, Discord. What is it you got to lose? Another piece of him replied with, Fluttershy.
Discord with a pensive facial expression flew down to the ground beside the yellow pegasus. They both stared at each other for a while until Fluttershy broke the silence.
''Hey.''
''Hey.''
''Is everything okay, Discord?'' she asked with puppy eyes.
''What do you mean?'' he asked. ''Everything is perfectly fine.'' He turned away to prevent her from seeing him sulking.
''Then why didn't you come to our tea party? I was so worried about you, I searched everywhere in Ponyville looking for you. I was so stressed that something might have had happened to you.''
''You did? You were? I'm sorry, my dear Fluttershy for causing you so much stress but you shouldn't risk yourself in finding me. I already learnt a long time ago that there was no way a beautiful and graceful pony like you could ever like me back. I'm a hideous monster full of hatred and mistakes.'' He puckered his face to the ground and curled up. ''I didn't need a kiss to learn that.''
Fluttershy widened her eyes in shock. ''Y- You like me? And that's not true! You are a great friend who has always stood up for me everytime and what do you mean kiss...?''
''Don't lie to me, Fluttershy. I know you kissed that brown pegasus. I saw.''
''What? Kiss...? Brown pegasus...? Oh... Discord, I didn't kiss him. In fact, I pushed away when he was trying to kiss me because... I... well,'' she blushed and sat next to him. She looked directly into his eyes to say her final words. ''I love you.''
Discord widened his eyes in disbelief. He could not believe what he was hearing. Did she really love him? He must have had hay in his ears. ''You... do?''
Fluttershy relaxed her head on him. ''Yes, you big softie.'' She took her head off him and looked directly into his eyes and leaned in closer for a lingering and long kiss.
Discord was shocked in disbelief. He slowly closed his eyes to enjoy the wonderful moment. It felt good to kiss her. Her lips tasted like strawberries and sugar, let alone her beauty. Her teal eyes were beautiful for him to look at especially her stare was so mesmerising to resist. This flawless little pony, this delicate and graceful little pony loves him back. Looks like his love life isn't so messed up after all as he thought.
The two love birds didn't want the kiss to end. It felt like an eternity and Discord should know that because he spent that time in stone. Unfortunately, they both needed some air to breathe so slowly pulled away from each other and slightly blushed.
''That was...'' Discord started to say.
''Nice,'' Fluttershy completed.
All of a sudden, a pink dynamic earth pony popped from out of the bushes and startled the two love birds, along with three other candy corn fillies. Fluttershy and Discord both turned red that they were getting spied on.
''THE FLUTTERCORD SHIP HAS FINALLY SAILED!'' Pinkie Pie shouted while having a paper hat boat on her head and celebrating with confetti and balloons.
''That was so romantic,'' Sweetie Belle sighed flirtingly.
Scootaloo stuck her tongue out in disgust. ''Yuck! Talk about disgusting.'' Apple Bloom playfully nudged her in the shoulders.
''DO IT AGAIN!'' Pinkie Pie shouted. ''AGAIN! AGAIN AGAIN! AGAIN!'' Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom joined along.
''Oh, great. Don't tell me you two are in this too?'' said Scootaloo, seeing the two fillies smiling at her innocently.
Fluttershy blushed slightly and buried her face into her soft and pink rose petalled mane. Discord swiped her delicate mane away from her face and leaned in closer for another lingering kiss again.
They all adored in awe except for Scooterloo who was too busy sticking her tongue out.
Author's Note
Yay! I finally finished this story and I really like how I ended this, it was cute! ![]()
I really had fun writing this story and I hope you enjoyed reading this! ![]()
But if you didn't, that is okay. ![]()
I only do these for fun and I'm going to start up another story ![]()
