Something Small and Fuzzy
There are days where everything goes your way. There are days where the world just seems to be crushing down on your soul. Today has nothing to do with that. This story just needed an introduction, and I need my pay.
We will be following the story of a little blue creature that had a rather strange stroke of fate, although he wasn’t always blue. No, he used to be pink; a tannish kind of pink, and a lot taller too. This tall, tannish pink, creature was what would soon to be known as a human. This human was sitting at home like a total loner. He preferred to bury himself in the art of music, where his only company were the strings of guitars and the keys of a piano.
His name was Brian. And he had many friends. Five, to be on the point. But we won’t be meeting that many friends today, because the day just ended ten minutes ago for Brian. It was now the time of ten past twelve and three of his friends were throwing rocks at his window.
“Hey! Brian! Let us in, we’ve got pizza!” shouted Scott, the one who was the unofficial leader of the group. His hair dyed blue to the point of almost black and black leather jacket with blue jeans.
Brian was almost too tired to care, as it seemed to be a ridiculous hour to be banging on windows, but friends were friends and he had to keep them; for social reasons. Reluctant, he went down and unlocked the front door. Tyler came through the door, closely followed by Eli and Adam, both with medium brown hair but where Eli’s was flat; Adam’s was in short curls.
“Heeeeeey!” said Tyler before bringing in a hug. “How are you? We haven’t seen you in ages!”
“I’m fine. But what are you guys doing here; it’s the middle of the night?!”
Adam answered. “Yea, we were just hanging in town when we thought we’d piss someone off and visit them in the middle of the night. Eli suggested you ‘cos you were closest.” Eli just nodded, being the quiet one.
"Fine, come on up to the lounge. Just don't wake my dad up or he'll be pissed."
"Cool, I need to check out ma Facebook anyway!" Replied Adam.
After consuming the pizza, the group of now four headed out into the shadows of the city at night. Streets of shops and clubs stood empty, with only drunken people who see ghosts, wandering the pavement. It gave the group a good laugh and show. They traveled the dark towards the taller part of the city and away from the shops. Glass and steel rising to touch the moon and proving to make quite an amazing sight with the reflections, moonlight dancing from window to window; almost like silver lasers.
The group weaved through the narrow alleyways and sidewalks to a empty car-park with buildings covering all sides, except one.
“So, what now?” Brian asked as he walked to the rail that was on the one side without a building, looking out at the building across the gap.
Scott smiled and joined him by the rail. “Simple. Look down.”
The rest of the group joined them and looked. They each let out a gasp of equal amazement at what they saw. It was like a large clump of trees and bush, all hidden behind the concert walls of the city; avoiding sight and temperament while still getting sunlight thanks to the glass towers. The boys were high above the mini-forest on the car park, getting the perfect and only view.
“How could this still be hidden?”
“It’s… awesome. Like a secret base or something.”
“Nice.”
After the initial awe wore off, the group started idle chatter. They stayed but the rail as they talked about all things friends would talk about. Eli brought out his old Nintendo DS and passed it around.
“Hey, finished the Poke’dex.” He said.
Eli had been playing the game Pokémon Platinum, for a least over a year now. Despite being quiet and keeping to himself, Eli would always finish something when it came to mind. As such, as soon as he got his hands on the game, there had been no stopping him in his quest to finish it to its limit.
He passed the DS around the group, each of them giving him a pat on the back. Brian took the mini-console and flicked through the many anime monsters. Brian had taken a liking to the game, but had never found the time to buy it or play his friends versions. He instead watched from the side lines as they captured and fought with each other. Brian was well into looking at the list, not paying attention to his friends.
Scott thought of an idea. Just a harmless prank that many had done before; pushing people close to dangerous edges and catching them again before they would really be hurt. Brian was well into the console as Scott stood before him, a silly smile on his face.
He pushed Brian with force, enough to make him trip over his own feet. Scott quickly grabbed his shirt again before his weight carried him into danger.
“Saved your li-“
He was interrupted by a loud tearing noise echoing around the enclosed buildings, as Brian’s shirt ripped. He staggered backwards, over the rail, and fell.
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“I must say Fluttershy; you weren’t kidding about this cake!” said Discord, sitting next to a yellow Pegasus on a couch. “I’ll have to replace my chocolate rain with this!”
The yellow Pegasus, named Fluttershy, sighed. “Now Discord, you must remember not to do things like that. It took such a long time to calm that family of bears after being turned into fish.”
The immortal spirit of chaos chuckled at the memories, but it also drew out some others since the day he was reformed.
Shortly after that fateful day, Celestia returned to her castle but first granted Discord ownership to a small cottage, near where Fluttershy’s was located. This was just another test, he knew, to see if he would stay true to his word and behave. Discord had every intention of doing just that, but he had to let out steam every now and then.
He also did what he was told to do, use his powers for the good of pony kind. He had helped build homes, move animals, divert wild clouds from the Everfree forest away from the town, and keep his powers to himself. Mostly.
Now he sat with Fluttershy enjoying a lovely afternoon with cake and tea, a routine they had picked up after the first few weeks. Discord quietly sipped his tea and ate his piece of cake; Fluttershy talked about her friends and adventures, as well as her animals.
“As I was saying; it was quite a shock when we found out Twilight was going to be a princess, but we understood. The coronation was lovely and now Twilight gets to live forever! Can you imagine?”
Yes, he could imagine, but for his new friend, Discord stayed silent. As much as he enjoyed Fluttershy’s company, it was a bit dull. So while keeping half his brain focused on his friends chatter, he spent the other half trying to find something to entertain himself.
Discord gazed the globe of Epuis, looking across Equestria and beyond. And nothing was happening. The planet was a giant snore fest. No big disasters, no plotting villains, no princesses bathing each other in the outdoor spa. Frankly, no interesting things at all. He turned his gaze away from Epuis, and looked to the stars. As his mind’s eye wandered the vast space, he spotted a large amount of metal just floating around. It seemed to be in the gravitational pull of a planet.
With nothing better to do, he closed in on the planet, passing many strange objects. One of them even made a noise.
“Ssppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccccceee….”
Discord descended on down to the planet, and found his mind in a city, run by incredibly strange ape creatures. Strange noisy machines beeped and honked at each other, while a few of the ape creatures seemed to be fighting. This place was built for entertainment! Nearby, he heard a scream, and turned his attention towards it.
He saw one of the ape creatures falling from an incredible height, most likely to his doom, towards what looked like a miniature forest.
Well, they did say to use my powers for good… Perhaps this won’t be such a boring afternoon after all.
Back at his body, his tail wavered behind him and flicked, giving a quick 'snap' sound. Fluttershy quickly noticed, and gave a slightly confused but mostly worrying face.
“Discord, umm, what did you do, if you don't mind me asking?”
He only chuckled. “Oh don’t worry my dear. You’ll see in a second.” Discord took another sip from his tea.
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One second he was watching the horrified faces of his friends as he fell, the next the world exploded into colour. Nothing formed a shape or solid colour, everything just wavered and moved. Brian looked at himself and noted that even his own body wasn’t a solid object. It stretched and broke, grew and shrunk; forming claws, fingers, faces, wings, horns, holes.
“The fuck is this?! The fuck is that?” he tried to say, but as he said them, the words floated in front of his very eyes, before dispelling before his eyes.
All lived yet everything was dead. The sun burned out and lava broke the surface of his favorite cookie. Hair split at the face where they filmed that new program. All else failed. Mozzarella cheese.
Then as quickly as it started, it ended, and Brian was greeted with a ceiling in front and a hard floor beneath. He heard the crack of his own skull, then silence.
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Fluttershy slowly poked her head from behind Discords back, and gazed at the creature. Her nature loving instincts took over in a flash as she jumped into action.
“Oh no! He’s bleeding from the head! Quickly, you grab the first aid kit and meet me in my room.” She barked at Discord, which almost took him by surprise.
Fluttershy picked up the small animal and flew up the stairs. Discord clicked his claw once more and joined her in the bedroom, first aid kit in hand, as well as wearing a nurse’s uniform. Fluttershy, after placing the creature on her bed with the cut facing up, grabbed the first aid kit from Discord and flipped it open; scanning the many bandages and tonics for the right things.
She picked some sterilizing clean wipes, stitches and needle, and a roll of bandage. After cleaning the wound with some wipes, she stitched it closed and sealed it with a bandage. Once Fluttershy was sure the creature was in no more danger, she tucked it into her bed; then turned to face Discord.
“Mister! You’re in big trouble!” Her eyes reaching stare level with anger, taking steps forward to bring her closer to Discord. “What did that creature ever do to you that you had to smash its head into the floor?”
“Erm, yes. This does look quite bad. You see, while you were chatting away I tried to find a way to entertain myself by looking across Epuis. When I found nothing interesting, I decided to search through the stars instead, and found a planet inhabited by strange ape like creatures.”
“A-a new p-planet?”
“Quite. Well I was just looking around this new place, when I saw one of the creatures falling, most likely to his doom. So I did what Celestia told me and used by powers for good. By bringing him here, I insured he didn’t die and got medical treatment pronto.
“But it seems the trip had some side effects. As you can tell, this creature no longer looks ape like, more like a rabbit really.”
Indeed, the creature lying before them was closer to a rabbit, but instead of a fluffy tail it had a blue rectangle. On each of it's cheeks were the mark of a minus sign, surrounded by a ball of blue. Another patch of blue was on it's ears on it's forelegs, which looked more like arms.
Discord and Fluttershy stood there and watched the creature in silence. Finally, Fluttershy spoke.
"Well, I guess you should take him home and take care of him then."
"Hmm... yes..." Discord said absentmindedly. "Wait, what?! Oh no. Oh no no no no no no no. I do not do care taking duty. That's your job."
Fluttershy sighed. "I know, and I really hate to do this to you, but I have too many animals to care for right now. Not to mention poor Angle Bunny is under the weather. I just can't handle caring for yet another critter, epically one I know nothing about."
"But-but, what about your friends? Couldn't they handle this?"
"Oh, I wouldn't want to burden them with anything. Besides, they are probably busy themselves." Discord gave a grunt of unhappiness, clearly not pleases with this. Fluttershy took a more assertive pose. "May I remind you that you brought him here in the first place? Just do it for a week and we'll see how he recovers, that's all I ask. Please, Discord?"
He looked down at the almost pleading pegasus and sighed.
"Fine, but only for a week. And don't except me to be cleaning up after the mess he leaves behind."
Fluttershy breathed a sigh of relief. "Good. I will drop by tomorrow and check up on how he's doing."
With a click of his claws, Discord and the animal were gone. Fluttershy could only hope she made the right choice.
Author's Note
This chapter has been somewhat edited. Mainly spelling mistakes, typos may remain. Sorry.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own, beat, eat, tickle, or own any of the things mentioned in this story, except my own characters. Any resemblance to real people living or dead is just luck. Except space.
Something Small and Fuzzy
Quick Author Note
Wow, its been a while since I wrote this in a short burst of creativity. Upon looking back at the previous chapter to refresh myself, I realized how terribly written and bad it is... wow... go me.
Anyway, I'm back on this story (for however long that lasts) with vastly improved writing and grammar (on the most part), so here's hoping this chapter was worth the wait. Or not.
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The Next Morning
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Despite being a once all-powerful-maddened-god-of-all-things-nutty, Discord had the taste of well organized living space and simple yet comfortable surroundings. His house was to those measures, simple, comfy, and somewhat isolated. It was hidden a few miles along the Everfree's forest line from Fluttershys cottage and far out of sight from any traveling roads, for passerby's own protection as well as Discords since not everyone agreed with him being back.
It had a small perimeter, limited to about four or five rooms plus broom closet, but a above average height so the home-owner could stretch without smacking his head, painted white. A small oddity was the roof always reflected the colour of the sky, red in the dawns and dusk's, blue midday, and black at night. A another not-so-small oddity was the garden around the house.
As his nature would have it, Discord couldn't have everything orderly, so the garden took the blunt of his grasping imagination. To anyone looking it, it would appear to be a sugar-coated joy-land, with candy-canes and chocolate marsh-mellow fountains but within it were various interesting sights that will become familiar to us later.
In the house at this current time our favorite nut-job was beginning the day with a nutritious and healthy breakfast of organic cola, inflated phosphate groups, and a colour bowl of Lucky Charms; freshly obtained from a nice man in a red cloak and hat.
The birds were chirping, backwards and in monotone, the sun was shining while wearing some snazzy looking sunglasses, and all was good in the world. Discord could tell his particular day might just be a great one as he sat in his normal, but favorite, lazy-boy.
Yes, with happy energy and hunger he dug into his breakfast, enjoying the day ahead. Then his visitor started screaming and it all came crashing down.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHOOOOHHHHHHHH GOD! WHAT AM I?! WH-WHERE IS THIS?! WHY- OH GOD MY HANDS! MY HAAAANDS!!"
Discord simply slide down his chair, his food forgotten about and instead breaking out the big stuff, a glass of orange juice. There was no way he could survive this day sober.
Before he could enjoy a sip, the door to the broom closet slowly opened, a small creature holding the handle down with its weight as it hanged in the air. The little creature dropped to the floor, panic and fear evident on its face, then tried to move in search of an exit. It instead made the floor a kiss, which would of been cute in any other situation, before standing again and cursing at its feet.
We all know who it is however, our dear friend Brian. No longer the tall sensible mild-mannered human he was, but instead small and fuzzy with blue, which reflected his emotions nicely.
"O-Oh no, please, just no. Anything but this," Brian gazed glassy eyed at his lucky rabbit feet, "I've turned into, into, a what, a WHAT?!"
"Well from what I understood from your friends Nintendo," Discord calmly noted from his seat, "You are the Pokemon Minun. A electric type who likes long walks in the park and sticks closely with your opposite, Plusle."
Brian had never seen a draconequus before, so the figure of a Mister Potato-Head gone wrong sitting before him was of course quite the shock. Lucky for Discord, he always had some ear plugs nearby, so the constant high-pitched sound-waves assaulting him were stopped at the moat.
However, Discord wasn't the patient sort, despite his involuntary practice, and couldn't keep his calm for long.
"Hey. Hey, you can stop that now. Hey! HEY!" A snap of his fingers/claws/paws and Brian's very mouth disappeared along with his scream. "Thank you, I like a captive audience when I talk. A pleasure to meet you, Brian, I am Discord, the great spirit of chaos! Or I was, until Celestia came along with the 'elements of harmony' and brain-washed me. Don't tell the Fluttershy that, though, I can't stand to she her sad."
Despite Discords truly magnificent introduction, Brian had decided to not listen to important information that would probably be very important and took off, as fast as one can take themselves while pretty much half dragging half rolling around, out the door, through the rather interesting garden, and down the yellow brick road; completely missing the musical and leaving a bunch of short squeaky sounding... things... feeling rejected.
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And across the on the other side of the area this story covers
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"Spike!" A newly winged purple pony with a purple bone poking through its forehead shouted, "I'm off to visit Fluttershy for a while. Can you keep an eye on the library for me?"
All she got in return was snoring and a short grumble. Well, it was a Sunday. Giving herself a short chuckle, she headed away from her home and workplace to visit her dear friend. It would of been nice to get together with all of her friends, but Applejack had taken her family as well as Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash down to Appleloosa for a catch up with Braeburn and Little Strongheart, and Rarity had gone on one of parents infamous holidays with Sweetie Belle for family bonding.
So that left Fluttershy, who was always in need of a helping hoof. While walking down one of Ponyvilles many streets, the unicorn (oops, Alicorn princess) known as Twilight Sparkle noticed a lonely and bored looking filly sulking out of Sugarcube Corner, the one stop shop for all thing sugary and teeth dissolving.
Twilight quickly approached, an idea with details of a beginning, motive behind the action, the consequence of said action, and the benefit equally shared amongst the party of individuals involved at the conclusion.
"Hello Scootaloo! How are you today?"
The orange filly clocked out of her sour mood and grinned up at her newest princess and very proud of friend. "Twilight! Hey, what's up? I'm just, you know, chilling, doing things Rainbow Dash would do. She'd go to Sugarcube Corner for a triple-nut-chocolate-encased-sprinkle-delight-extremer, right? Right?"
Twilight once again found herself giggling at the youth of the town, and nodded. "Yessss." Was her young friends reply.
"Say, Scootaloo, you're not doing anything important right now are you?" Asked Twilight.
Scootaloo brought a hoof to her chin, sat down, and hummed in thought. Then rolled onto her back with her hoof still in place, and hummed again. After several different and odd poses, she finally replied, "Nope! Sweetie Belle and Applebloom are both gone, so I've had nothing to do for aaaaages. And there's still, like, two more weeks before even one of them gets back."
"Well, how would you like to come with me? I'm going to check up on Fluttershy and give her a hoof if she looks to be in trouble. And of course, there might be some dangerous and scary things that we might not be brave enough to do."
"Ooh! Ooh!" Scootaloo's face lit up like a Hearth's Warming tree. "I could totally do those things! You don't have to worry a bit, I'm an ex- exp- totally smart at things like that!"
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They walked to that cottage
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*Knock, knock*
The door creaked open a little, before opening fully showing a bed-maned and exhausted Fluttershy. "O-oh, Twilight, what brings you over so late at night?"
Twilight shook her shocked expression at her friends condition off her face and focused an answer. "Fluttershy, it's morning. Are you alright? It can't be good if you're this tired, are they really that many animals that need help?"
Fluttershy didn't respond, instead she gently swayed back and forth on the spot with no connection spelled on her face. Twilight sighed and lifted her friend in a magical grasp, floating her over to the couch and lay her down before draping a sheet over her.
"I guess we'll be busy, right Scootaloo?" The little filly who stood at attention by her side nodded, then the two got to work.
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Outside, a while plus some minutes later
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After escaping that mad demon and tearing down the path, Brian could finally see a building coming up. It was like a beacon of hope on the horizon, a light that would guide the way back home away from this crazy hellhole he had found himself in.
He hadn't dared look back since he left candy-land, so he not a clue if it had followed him in his risky escape. But now none of that mattered, there was the door, and safety, and warmth, and hope, and...
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Those 'some minutes' ago
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"Ouchie," Fluttershy muttered as she slowly regained life in her brain. She slowly sat up and found she was on her couch, and the rest of her home was clean and tidy with all the critters fed and cared for. "What? How did?"
Suddenly orbs of purple blocked her vision and a young and healthy "Surprise!" was quaked into her face.
Fluttershy warped behind the couch and locked in place, too scared to even shake. "Oh! Sorry Fluttershy! I probably shouldn't of scared you like that. My bad."
Recognizing the voice, Fluttershys body unlocked and she peeked over the edge of her couch. Sitting in the other chairs in the room were the young and energetic Scootaloo and the brainy and calm Twilight, both her good friends. With no threat no longer visible, her voice returned.
"Oh, Scootaloo, I'm sorry but please don't jump like that. You scared me."
"Sure thing! OH! Look, we cleaned your house and took care of your pets and stuff for you!"
Indeed, the place was tidy to a T, but to Twilight, she knew that even the stuff they had done wasn't that big of a deal, even for Fluttershy, so the mystery of her friend exhaustion remained. "Hey, Fluttershy, why were you so tired before? You didn't stay up all night working, did you?"
Fluttershy, now rested enough to hold a conversation, answered quickly. "Oh, I'm sorry, but I just couldn't sleep because I was thinking of that poor creature Discord brought in last night. Or evening. I've never seen anything like it, but I had so much to do I couldn't care for it myself, so I entrusted Discord to-"
Her explanation was cut short when a small and fuzzy thing sped through the door, quickly slamming it in place and piling anything it could get its paws on in front of it. When at last it felt satisfied, it slumped to the ground, breathing heavily through its nose because, it had no mouth.
"Oh! That's the creature!" Explained Fluttershy. "But yesterday, I could of sworn it had a mouth. I fed it painkillers, and why is it..."
Twilights and Fluttershys gaze met, and they both muttered the same name with groans at the same time, "Discord."
Author's Note
And... done! I'm quite proud of this chapter, and all of you are probably picking your jaws off the ground. I mean, a new chapter! Who would've guessed?!
Yea, I'm gonna see what else I can write tonight. Gives heaps of support and I might be motivated to write another soon!
Also, note to self: Never make up OCs for a story again, just use this utterly stupid list I spent half-an-hour going through just to make sure I got 'Little Strongheart' right: http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies
