“More tea, Fluttershy?” Discord offered, holding the teapot in his claws.

“I’d love that, thank you Discord!” Fluttershy grinned, offering up her teacup.

While still seated in his chair a good five feet away from Fluttershy, Discord tipped the teapot over. The hot tea poured out of the spout and down onto the table, though before it made a disastrous splash, the stream bent back and went upwards, continuing in a spiral as it flowed right into Fluttershy’s cup, making the mare giggle in amusement.

“So, how has the month been treating you?” Discord asked. It had been quite a while since he and Fluttershy had talked, plus the whole month he had been preoccupied with…other pursuits.

“Oh, I’ve been doing quite fine, thank you!” Fluttershy nodded. “To be honest, sometimes I forget that the competition is still happening. Well, on the days where I don’t see some of my friends struggling, that is.”

“Yes, I’m fairly certain everyone in Equestria is aware of Rainbow Dash’s lack of self-control,” Discord mused, chuckling to himself. “I’m honestly quite surprised she’s still in. I thought that last year was a once in a lifetime miracle.”

It was rude to laugh at her friends, especially when they weren’t there, but Fluttershy couldn’t help but giggle a bit. “Well I think it’s been toned down a bunch because of Zephyr. He should be coming soon-”

“Oh most certainly. Though I know that Gilda’s still been giving her a particularly hard time.” Discord stroked his beard, tapping his hoof against the floor. “Truly a testament to their friendship that she can shove her paws in her face and think nothing of it.”

“Mmm, speaking of, how are things going with you and the Crusaders?” Fluttershy took another sip of tea.

“Oh, where do I begin? Babs has come up with so many good ideas, it’s actually given me a spot of inspiration! There may not be enough time to execute them all, but some of them are just so wonderfully devious!”

As Discord rambled on about the various misadventures he had been going on with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Fluttershy couldn’t help but smile warmly at the fact that Discord was off having genuine fun without her.

Discord eventually caught himself going on and on, wanting to switch topics just in case Fluttershy was getting bored. “Say, it looks like you’ve barely gone through the Tuesday Teacakes!” he noted, pointing at the plate mostly full of buns.

“Well yes, but I made extra because Z-”

Discord lifted up the plate, starting to inspect each individual cake. “Is it not sweet enough? Too much flour? Well, I’d hate for it all to go to waste, so I shall take it upon myself to eat the rest.”

Fluttershy pouted her lips. “I think you should save some for Zep-”

“You’re right, I should save some for later! You never know when they might come in handy for later-”

Just as Discord was about to dump the contents of the plate in his beard, the door flew open.

“Hey-hey! Hope I’m not too late for your little tea party, Flutter-butter!”

Discord froze in place, staring at Zephyr Breeze in shock before turning to Fluttershy. “You didn’t tell me he was going to be here today!” He said through gritted teeth.

“I tried. Several times. You just weren’t listening.”

“Hey there Big D!” Zephyr casually strolled up to Discord, patting him on the back. “How’s it going?”

“Oh, I’ve been just peachy, Zephyr…” Discord growled, barely hiding the disgust in his voice.

“You look like you’re in a good mood today, Zephyr,” Fluttershy said, trying to diffuse Discord’s rising anger.

Zephyr promptly took a seat at the table and immediately kicked his hooves up. “Heh, is it really that obvious?”

Discord curled his hands into fists, rolling his neck as steam started shooting out of his ears.

“Tell us what happened, Zephyr!” Fluttershy said eagerly. “We’re very excited to hear it!”

“Yes, it’s so very rare to hear a tale of success from you…” Discord muttered under his breath before getting a swift jab to the side by Fluttershy’s hoof.

Zephyr was oblivious to Discord’s snark. “Well, you know that tortoise nightcap that Rainbow Dash has been wanting for a while? Well, today I finally got the chance to give it to her, and she loved it!”

“Who would’ve guessed that the pony with a pet tortoise would enjoy a tortoise-themed gift…” got another jab from Fluttershy.

“You should’ve seen the way her eyes lit up!” Zephyr smiled, beaming with pride.

Discord crossed his arms, smoke snorting out of his nostrils. “If I recall, you bought that quite a while ago. Why bother waiting so long to give it to her?”

Zephyr started to sweat. “W-Well, I was just waiting for the right time to give it to her! I know Rainbow’s been so busy, you know how it goes…”

“Funny,” Discord leaned forward, putting his elbows on the table and tenting his fingers. “Fluttershy has been telling me how bored Rainbow Dash has been in the past few days…”

Zephyr put his hooves off the table, visibly sweating and fidgeting as he tried to come up with an excuse. “Uh…about that…you see…”

Fluttershy let out a quiet sigh, deciding to intervene. “It’s alright. Zephyr was just waiting for the right opportunity to give his gift to Rainbow Dash, right?”

“Y-Yeah!” Zephyr cleared his throat. “I know she gets all hot and bothered thinking of me sometimes, so I wanted to make sure that she wasn’t so overwhelmed by my awesomeness that she came on the spot! Can’t have her lose her chance to share a passionate orgy moment with me just cause of my pure sex appeal amirite?”

Discord let out an exasperated series of curses under his breath.

“Zephyr, is Rainbow Dash your only choice in the orgy? Surely you have some other options ready…” Fluttershy asked. “I mean, what if Rainbow Dash doesn’t make it this year?”

“Which could easily be arranged…” Discord growled, raising his claw to snap his fingers, only to be calmly lowered back down by Fluttershy.

Zephyr put a hoof to his chin. “Well…if it came to that, I’d maybe go for that griffon gal I see her hanging with. I can tell she’s got that same fire in her eyes that Rainbow does. Or that neat zebra. I just love that mohawk she’s rockin’!”

“Well, maybe it’d be good for you to get to know one of them before the month is up!” Fluttershy not-so-subtly suggested.

Discord leaned down to whisper to Fluttershy. “You’re going to let him loose on the other ladies like that?”

“It’s that or Rainbow might kill him.”

“And? Where’s the downside in that?”

“Saaay, that’s a pretty good idea, Fluttershy!” Zephyr grinned. “I’m sure there are plenty of ladies out there that wanna blow in the Breeze!”

Discord turned to Fluttershy, frustratingly gesturing his arms towards Zephyr. silently wondering why she wouldn't just let him take care of her brother.

Fluttershy simply shook her head and took another sip of tea.

Author's Note

Zephyr is such a narcissistic self-conscious asshole and I love writing him.