Striving for Perfection

Dawn came a few hours ago and only now I was finally able to finish reading the book that Luna gave me. Yes, I could not read the whole book at once, but why if I can read everything at once? In any case, now I can only try to rearrange my sleep mode, that is, start sleeping during the day. I got up from the chair where I had been sitting all the time while reading and flopped down on the bed. After many unsuccessful attempts, I was finally able to fall asleep.

I found myself in a space whose bottom consisted of a dark liquid similar to water. Several columns of black color were rushing up into the blue sky. I have a feeling that something is wrong here. Suddenly I felt a presence behind me. Quickly turning around, I saw a very strange creature. The creature has a horse-like muzzle with a dark gray mane. One is a deer horn and the other is a goat and also a goatee. One lion's paw and the other eagle's. One bat wing and one Pegasus wing. One leg of a lizard and the other in the form of a horse's hoof. As a result, the creature looks like randomly assembled body parts of different animals.

Seeing how I was looking at him, the creature grinned and began to say, "Oh, are you impressed by my incomparable beauty? Of course, because before you stands the one and only Discord, the spirit of chaos and disharmony!" Discord finished speaking while posing proudly.

"And what do you want from me?" I answered not particularly interested.

"Hey Dani, this is not scripted."

"First of all, you call me that again and I'll beat the shit out of you, and secondly, what are you talking about at all?."

"It's too bad that the actor forgot the script, but here you go." Discord said, pulling a script out of nowhere and handing it to me.

I looked at the title written on the first page and without opening the script I said "Why did you give me the script of American Psycho?"

"Oops confused, I was invited for the role, but alas, I could not come to the shooting. Here you go." Discord said, taking the script from me and handing me another one.

"Are you idiot?" I said, showing Discord the front part of the script on which it says "Joker"

"Oh, I got it mixed up again. But let's be honest, you don't have to prepare to play a madman. Okay, back to business. Where were we? Oh, yes, you're not working according to the script. Let me look for yours. " Discord said, pulling out a bag out of nowhere and starting rummaging through it. Throwing aside at least a hundred scripts, he finally pulled out the right one and began to read quietly, creating a director's chair under him. When he finished after a couple of seconds, he said.

"Right now you should have fallen on your ass and gone into shock. You've generally moved away from the script almost everywhere. For example, yesterday you had to say that you love Lulu and today you had to make love to her and then escape from your room to find me. And yet. . ." He wanted to continue, but I cut him off.

"Hold your horses. Did I understand you correctly? According to this scenario of yours that you got out of nowhere at all, should I fuck a horse?"

"Yes. It here in the order of things besides, we have a thousand and one excuses why it can be done calmly and without problems. Starting with the fact that she is reasonable, that is, having sex with her is not considered zoophilia, ending with the magical protection of your bones from crushing under the mass of the mare. "

"But she's a horse! "

"And why should it bother? "

I put my hand to my face and said, "Fuck, I can't argue with your logic."

"Well, since you realized that you can't argue with what's not there, then we can go over your deviations a little more. For example, when you first met the elements, you had to immediately make friends with them and become super kind. Okay, since you're not listening to me anymore, let's get down to business. " Discord said before snapping his fingers causing everything but the dream scenery to disappear. He put his fingers together and looked at me with an impenetrable gaze.

"I have a trade offer for you. I receive: lots of fun and chaos. You receive: my confession. Well, do you agree? "

"Can you be more specific?"

"You're not funny, but I'll explain it to you as my favorite actor. You will be more restrained when communicating with the elements so as not to destroy their friendship ahead of time because I want to do it myself. Seriously, I know literally everything about you and it's clear to me that sooner or later you will want to influence them. Divide and conquer, right? But you'd better refrain from doing that because I want to have fun myself, too. In return, you will receive my recognition as the strongest if your crazy plan works. Well, do you agree? " Said Discord, extending his eagle paw.

"For you, I'm crazy just because you're too underdeveloped to understand basic things, but okay, I accept your offer. " I said, reluctantly extending my hand to him.

Discord shook my hand in return and said before disappearing, "Remember! Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!"

Damn, how old is this reference? Seven years? Ten? In any case, using something so unoriginal and old is a real shame. And how do I get out of here anyway?

I didn't even have time to start thinking about the possibility of escaping from the dream when I heard a knock on the door. With each knock I hear it more clearly and the space around me becomes more blurred. As a result, the dream finally collapsed.

I opened my eyes abruptly and looked around my room. As expected, the source of the sound was the door to the room. I got out of bed and went to the door after putting on the already dried loincloth. Looking out the window, I saw that it was already night outside. How did I sleep for so long? Going to the door and opening it, I saw Luna. In general, it is expected.

"Well, for other reasons, you couldn't come to me." I said, anticipating what Luna would say.

"I asked you to learn how to say hello before starting the conversation itself." Replied Luna in a slightly offended voice.

"If you explain in a reasoned way, why I need to change my behavior model to something else, then I'm ready to listen."

"Have you heard of such a good thing as politeness?"

"Politeness? Yes, I have heard about some beautiful words and techniques behind which people are hiding who are afraid to show themselves as real. I prefer to speak and act openly if possible."

"You do understand that sooner or later you will have to contact the nobles and than politeness will become a necessity for you?"

"Why should I contact all sorts of jerks?"

"It has always been accepted that the captain of the princess's guard, in case of her absence, can temporarily take over her duties, so you need to win over the nobles in advance in case something happens."

"I doubt very much that something serious can happen to you." I said with doubt in my voice.

"Maybe nothing serious will happen, but the nobles are well aware of this rule, so they will begin to put enormous pressure on you to leave in case they don't like you."

"Okay, let's see what happens in the future." I said, walking past Luna in the direction where the gardens are approximately. I decided to end the conversation now because maintaining politeness for a long time really annoys me.

After a while, Luna broke out ahead, taking the lead in our small group. Well, I don't mind. After going through the many corridors of the night castle, we finally got to the garden where my sparring with Luna was.

Luna began to speak in an indifferent voice, "Since you have very little control over your magic, we will have to start from the very basics, namely with breathing. The fact is that the magic of its nature is connected with breathing and therefore good breath control is needed for its effective use. As your first exercise, you should hang on to that tree by pulling magic and hold on as long as possible. Luna said, pointing with her hoof at the nearest tree.

I approached the tree without much interest and released the magical tentacles from two hands on the highest branch. Hanging about five feet above the ground, I just stared at Luna with boredom in my eyes.

"Well, this. . ." I wanted to say, but as soon as I started talking, the tentacles began to crackle and I had to shut my mouth to return them to their initial state.

"You know that talking interrupts normal breathing, right?"

Even though I only found out now, I just nodded and continued hanging. Over time, it began to feel as if the energy was constantly being pulled out of me, which made it difficult to even maintain even breathing. In the end, I fell out of the tree, but quickly recovered and hung again, despite the growing pain in my chest and arms.

Seeing that I already understood what to do, Luna sat down in front of me and began to say "Since you understand what to do, I will begin to explain the theory. The soul is closely connected with the heart and lungs. The connection with the heart is that magic moves through the body through the blood, that is, bleeding at certain points can make it difficult or even stop the flow of magic. The connection with the lungs is that magic can only be transmitted through very well-oxygenated blood. Therefore, it is very important for you to be able to transfer blows to the side and control your breathing so as not to lose the ability to create magic at the most inopportune moment.

"Also, magic can accumulate through the efforts of its owner in one part of the body to strengthen it and increase physical strength, but for this you need a very good control of magic, which you currently do not have. You can make it your personal motivation to train magic, we don't mind.

"And the most important thing. Because of your rash decision to combine dark and ordinary magic, your magic as a whole has become dependent on emotions, that is, for the full potential of your magic, you need negative emotions. We cannot teach you to delay and release emotions at the right moment, so we can only recommend that you learn from your own experience."

While Luna continued to talk, I got distracted and saw a statue of the creature that I saw in my dream. Just like in a dream, Discord looks like a mix of random animals.

How is it even possible for a living being to be trapped in a stone as an ornament in a garden? Although I consider myself a very immoral person, this sounds too harsh even for me. Between being stuck in a stone forever and dying right away, I won't hesitate to choose the latter. It's even kind of embarrassing to me that ponies are shown only one nonsense after another and show almost nothing positive.

"Are you even listening?" Luna asked irritably, knocking me out of my thoughts. I shook my head negatively, which made Luna sigh.

"At least you're honest. All right, I'll continue my lecture. And so I settled on resisting natural magic." Luna continued to speak while I continued to hang on the tree with the help of magical tentacles. Before I completely immersed myself in the process, a thought appeared in my head.

It seems to me that further training will only be more difficult.