Butterfly's Story

Fluttershy held the warm bundle in her hooves, stroking the babies mane gently as her husband Discord leaned over the hospital bed and smiled. "She looks so much like you Fluttershy." he whispered. "Honestly, I was expecting her to be a horrific combination of both of our species!" he chuckled. This made the yellow foal in Fluttershy's arms start to cry. Fluttershy was quick to scold him for being loud. "Discord! you made her cry!"

He laughed and wrapped his spiny red tail around her and the baby. "You know I'm just joking. We need to give her a name, any ideas?" Fluttershy thought for a bit, looking down at the yellowy pink pony and cradling her. "Well, you did say she looked a lot like me. I think we should name her after something like Fluttershy. It would be cute."

Discord looked around the room. He had no idea what that could've been! he was never one for coming up with good names. "Uhhh.." he stammered before both of his eyes met Fluttershy's flank. On it where three pink butterflies, and Butterfly did rhyme with Fluttershy, he thought it was good enough. "That's it! Butterfly! we can name her that." he suggested. Fluttershy returned a warm smile. "Butterfly is a beautiful name for her. Haha, Butterfly and Fluttershy, it's perfect! thank you Discord." Fluttershy beamed before nuzzling him.

"Anything for you, love." Discord sighed. He was still stressed out from having to watch Fluttershy give birth, and was relieved it had all gone to plan. Just then, Nurse Redheart pushed passed the curtains and rushed into the hospital room to check up on the baby. "The results came back positive, she is perfectly healthy, Fluttershy. You did a good job. Did you pick out a name for her so I can sign the birth certificate?" she asked.

Fluttershy looked at her and nodded. "Yes actually, we decided to name her Butterfly. Butterfly Shy." Nurse Redheart grinned. "Lovely." she said, before scribbling down the credentials. "You and the baby should be out of the hospital by tonight. Do you have everything set up for her at home already?"

"Well, of course!" Fluttershy exclaimed. "We got her crib and her room painted a nice light purple, Discord even bought her some stuffed animals earlier today for the occasion."

"Then i'd say you have nothing to worry about." Redheart responded and left the room to discharge Fluttershy from the facility. Discord and Fluttershy exchanged a loving glance at eachother. "Oh Discord, this has been the happiest day I've ever had. I can't believe we now have a daughter! this is so exciting, isn't it?"

Discord looked down at the foal as it opened it's deep blue eyes. It looked almost identical to it's mother, besides the tufts of mane sticking out of her head baring a more hot pink. Out of her back sprouted two tiny wings, as delicate as Fluttershys were. Discord's face fell as he turned to his wife. "Well to be honest Fluttershy, I kind of wish it was a boy instead. Actually no, scratch that, I wish it looked exactly like me so I could feel more attached to it."

"WHAT! GRR DISCORD YOU'RE SUCH A LITTLE-" Fluttershy stopped herself when she realized she had woken up the foal. It stared back at her in confusion, eyes bright and wide. Fluttershy huffed in frustration. "You know what. I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear that."
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As the years passed by young Butterfly grew up into a happy foal. She was now five years old and was adored by both her parents greatly. Despite being more like her mother, Butterfly felt closer to her father Discord. She didn't really know why, maybe it was a telepathic thing the two shared with each other. Fluttershy taught her almost everything about animals and gardening, which became Butterfly's two greatest passions in life. Usually she would help her out by planting new seedlings into the dirt or by nursing little critters back to health. Her favorite animal were bunnies. Baby bunnies.

"Hey Butterfly, want to know how to do something cool?" Discord asked as the two made their way into Fluttershy's backyard. "Oh yes I do!" Butterfly giggled and chased him. She latched onto his tail and Discord tried to shake her off, it was a common game they'd play while Fluttershy stirred tea in the kitchen. "Alright, Alright. But you have to get this right or you could hurt yourself, ok?" he said, setting the young filly down and whirling his hands to create a dark ball full of chaos magic.
"Move your hooves around like this. That's right, maybe a little more, perfect. This my friend, is how you create a ball of chaos. See?" he demonstrated. The black energy levitated higher into the hair as Butterfly watched with dilated pupils. "Woah.." she breathed, not able to take her eyes off the anomaly. "Daddy, that's so cool! I wanna try!"

"Standing on her two backlegs, similar to her father had she waved her hooves around, creating a tiny pink smoke cloud. "Look, I'm doing it!" she laughed in amazement. Eyes twinkling with wonder. As Fluttershy blew the steam from the teacup, she caught the silhouettes of both her husband and daughter playing together outside. "I wonder what he's doing with her.." Fluttershy whispered, edging closer toward the window.

"Oh sweet Celestia he's not!" Fluttershy gasped in alarm as she caught sight of Discord and Butterfly playing around with chaos magic together. How could he be so inconsiderate? chaos magic was extremely dangerous, and Fluttershy told him to keep Butterfly's powers a secret. If anypony found out she had them they could be banished from Ponyville for life! throwing the teacup back onto the table, not caring if it spilled or not she raced out the door and called out to them.

"Discord, Butterfly! what do you two think you're doing? Discord I thought I warned you about this. Butterfly is too young to do magic yet! you know how dangerous that is? not only for her but other ponies around her? if she can't control it properly we could get in a lot of trouble!"

"Why do you think I'm trying to teach her?" Discord growled. "If she doesn't learn at a young age she will never know how to contain it. Mind you she's not just your daughter, she's also mine. I can do and teach her what I please."

"It's not right!" Fluttershy protested. Butterfly felt bad now, and hit behind Discord's leg. She never liked it when her mom and dad argued, no matter what it was. "I-I'm sorry mommy..." she whimpered. Discord took a step closer to his wife which made Butterfly fall to the ground. "You know what's going to happen if I don't teach her in time?" he threatened. "She'll be a freak like me, and she will turn evil and use those powers for bad! what do you not understand?"

"How dare you say that about my Butterfly! she's a normal pony like everybody else!" Fluttershy shot back, running over toward the filly and scooping her close with her wing. "Just go away Discord, you're making her upset!"

"I am?" he scoffed. "Sorry. Weren't you the one who came out here and trashed our fun?" fluttershy gave him the stare and he stomped away mad, fed up with her for the day. "I'm sorry Butterfly. It's not you it's just- your father has been mean lately. He thinks you need to learn this magic of his so you're more like him or you'll turn evil."

Butterfly pushed away from her in surprise. "W-What!? so if I don't learn all daddy's magic I will be evil?" Fluttershy straightened herself up. "No! he's lying and you know it. Your not a monster, your my beautiful daughter who I love very much. You know what. I'm going to divorce him so it'll just be us."

"What's divorce mean?" Butterfly asked as Fluttershy sat up. Fluttershy lowered her head in shame. "You'll find out soon. It just means breaking up with your special somepony for a while because of family problems."

"But married ponies can't break up! only coltfriends and marefriends can!" Butterfly gasped in horror. She didn't want daddy and mommy to split up! she loved them both! would she have to choose? she really hoped not.

"It's an adult issue Butterfly. Go to your room and play while I get the papers figured out. You don't need to worry about it." trotting away and leaving her daughter all alone, Fluttershy re-entered the cottage and trailed upstairs.