Lumber jacking.
Finding out.
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"You know, this was a good idea Pinkie." Twilight said levitating six stacks of paper over onto a desk.
"Why yes, even if some of my memory was bit fuzzy." Rarity said.
"Mmpf!" Rainbow Dash tried to say, but the ropes around her muzzle cut off her voice.
Applejack whistled an innocent tune before accidentally knocking her onto her side. She gave a groan and looked at Spike for help. He shrugged and undid her bindings.
"Atleast somepony helped me." She said brushing off some dust.
"Don't ya even start!" Applejack yelled.
"Girls!" Twilight yelled. "Could we calm down before fighting each other?"
Rainbow Dash and Applejack took to a separate side of the room.
"Now Spike, I'm leaving you in charge while we go out. And guard these papers with your life, and do not look at them." Twilight said poking him in the chest with a hoof.
"You can... What the?" He was staring in confusion at a stack of papers floating. "Uh, why are the papers floating?"
All the girls turned to see one of the stacks floating in the air, followed by a sipping noise. Slowly, from tip to tail, Discord appeared smiling at them.
"Why hello! Long time no see? How are my favorite ponies doing?" He greeted sipping some lemonade.
His smile faded when he saw all of their nervous faces, his eyes switched back to the paper, just catching the title. He looked back, eyes widened. His drink fell from his paw, his mouth dropped and he fell back.
"Oh no! This isn't good!" Twilight said checking his heart. "He's alive... Thank goodness."
Spike leaned over Discord and looked at the paper before following suit.
"Uh oh..." Fluttershy whispered. "I-If he saw one... Wouldn't that mean he's going to know the rest of you did it?"
"This is not good..." Rainbow Dash said. "He's gonna tell the princesses!"
"What if we don't let him?" Pinkie suggested.
"How are we going to do that?" Rarity asked. "He can just teleport them here, teleport himself there or teleport us there with just a snap of his paw. I'm sorry darling, but we can't stop him."
"That what do we do?" Applejack asked.
"I have a good idea."
They all jumped back when they saw Discord looming over, his eyes narrowed to little yellow slits, the tiniest bit of red in the middle of them piercing through them.
"I want answers. Now." He growled.
Fluttershy spoke up, hoping to calm him down.
"D-Discord... This is all my fault. I-I told them about how I went to look for Timberwolves, to get bark for Zecora. When I did find some, they jumped me and I did what I did because they started to growl if I tried to get away. I was so scared when that first one jumped on me, I-I... I was weak!" She bawled up, curling into a small yellow ball.
His expression softened, he leaned down and picked her up, cradling her like a foal.
"I'm not necessarily mad at any of you. Just, confused. Why did you all do that? Didn't you know what would happen?"
"N-No..." Twilight mumbled, scuffing her hoof across the floor. "What happens?"
"Timberponies." He said.
They all stopped and looked at him, his expression unreadable. Fluttershy had even slowed down her crying to stare at him.
"Were going to turn into wood!" Rainbow Dash yelled.
"What? No! Your going to have Timberponies!" He yelled. "Six little wooden foal's running around. It almost brings a tear to my eye."
"Ah'm gonna be a mother!?" Applejack yelled. "Ah... Ah can't let Granny Smith know. She'd have ma'h tail! Ah'd be kicked out'a the farm!"
"No. I'll make sure your not." He said. "She may be the owner, but unless her old age had gotten to her. I can control everything." He tipped her chin up with the end of his tail. "You have my word. and as for you," he turned to Twilight. "Why did you do it? I expected the others, but you?"
Twilight was quietly rocking back and forth in a corner, rubbing her tail like a dog. Her eyes were bloodshot, her lips were quivering whiles he was still grinning.
"Celestia! She's going to banish me! And I'm going to have a Timberpony with me! And were going to live together forever!" She ranted.
"Well, you know I have to tell them." Discord sighed. "There going to find out anyway." He jabbed a thumb in Twilight's direction. "Obviously. So, why don't you all get something to eat and I'll be right back."
He disappeared in a flash, leaving them all in stunned silence.
"Well, I'm getting breakfast. Anypony else want some?" Pinkie asked, bouncing into the kitchen.
"Food..." Spike mumbled, getting up. "I need something to throw up."
The others just quietly went into the kitchen, sitting expressionless at the table.
In a quick flash, Discord was back. Celestia and Luna following him quickly, worried expressions on both of them.
"Are you sure?" Celestia asked, he handed her the stack of papers he had. Her eyes widened before going over to her student.
Twilight was freaking out even more. She began to slowly hit her head against the wall, laughing hysterically. When Celestia wrapped her in her wings, she stopped and slowly her laughing became crying.
"Twilight, why did you do it?" Celestia asked, no trace of anger or disappointment in her voice. Only that of a mother caring for her child.
"I was curious... I wanted to study there behavior. Not one sighting or encounter of a Timberwolf ended well. I just wanted to prove it was true. And, I guess I did." Twilight said.
"Do not worry, we are not mad at you. You all made a mistake, and now with a unknown consequence. It will be alright. I promise."
"We will do everything in our power to help fix-" Luna was saying until Discord cut her off.
Discord clamped a paw over her muzzle, she tried to peel his fuzzy fingers off, but he merely just lifted her up to his eye level.
"Listen here, little sis. The Timberwolves are my creation. So, this is my fault, my problem and I will decide what to do. You and Celly stay out of this!" He dropped her before sitting.
"Did you just say, little sis?" Rarity asked. "She's your little sister?"
"Yes. Me, Celestia and Luna. All siblings." He said, cracking his knuckles.
He received a face full of milk from Pinkie as she did a spit-take.
"So," Rainbow Dash began. "If Twilight's brother married Celestia's niece, Cadence. Then that means your her uncle!"
"I never thought about that. Neat, I suppose." He shrugged. "But, back to business, no pun intended. I knew this day would come, just not the wielders of the same elements that imprisoned me in stone would be the ones. But, since the day has come, I made these."
He snapped his talon and a small white opening was made next to him, Twilight immediately bolting out from her teachers grasp and examining it.
"A pocket dimension! I've never got to see one!" She said excitedly.
"That's not true, you see one everyday." Discord said. "Pinkie's mane is one. How do you think she fits that cannon in her mane?"
He retrieved another face full of milk. He wiped off a few cornflakes before pulling out, from the small opening, a green box with liquid water trimmings. The water was on the sides and edges, covering the corners or any crack present.
"Now," He put his paw on the box, it made a clicking noise and opened. "These are for the young ones. I made these myself, draining myself every day for a month on each. These are the Element's of Harmony's counterparts. The Elements, of Wood."
He pulled out a crown with a crimson jewel in the middle. A necklace with a green jewel, another with a orange jewel, another with a purple one, another with a California blue jewel and another with a black jewel.
"These are my own creations, made to serve only for the most chaotic thing in existence. Nature."
He set all of them down at the middle of the table.
"Each of you will touch one, and that will be your child's element."
"Don't they have to earn them? Like we did?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Nope. Just a quick touch, and boom! The kid's that element." He said, excitedly, rolling his talon over one of the jewels.
He received another face full of milk. Pinkie had kept going, her cheeks not losing and air or fluid as she blew.
Spike looked at the clock.
"Three minutes, that's a world record."
When her spitting stopped, she slurped the rest of her bowl down and put it in the sink with a belch.
"Now that that's over. Each of you, take an necklace or the crown." Discord said. "I'll explain what each one does."
"The crown is for fire resistance, the black to be as strong as an oak, the purple one is to be as flexible as a sapling, the orange one is for water resistance, the blue one is to take in as much water to gain strength and the green one is to control other pieces of vegetation."
"I'll take fire resistance." Twilight said. "Little tyke may try and upset Peewee or Spike."
When her hoof touched the crown, the jewel flash and she bolted back, sucking on her hoof.
"There is a slight shock." Discord said smiling.
"I'll take the flexibility." Rarity said.
He slid her her element, the jewel glowed and her hoof shot back. She shook her hoof numerously before keeping it to her side.
"Ah'll take the strength. Gonna need help later on the farm." Applejack said.
She touched her necklace and kept her hoof on it.
"I'll take the water resistance." Rainbow Dash sighed. "I do live up in the clouds. And it rains a ton."
She put her hoof to her necklace and twitched when it shocked her.
"I'll take the water absorbing thingy!" Pinkie said.
When he slid her her element, she was flung into the air. Her hoof never leaving the necklace as her skin turned black and her bones were shown. She fell down to the ground, a small trail of smoke raising up. She poked her head up and her mane fell down.
"Ahh... I don't like this mane style." She pouted.
"And I guess you get this one." He slid Fluttershy the green jeweled necklace.
She gave it a quick tap and hid under her mane.
"Alright, I'll hang on to them until the little ones are born." He said, collecting the elements and putting them back into the box. "Come one little sisters."
He snapped his talon and the three gods disappeared.
"Heh. Wood." Rainbow Dash snickered.
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