Protecting Love

At the reception, everypony bustled around Discord and Pinkie Pie, saying how happy they were and wishing their best for the newlyweds. Since there was barely enough time BEFORE the wedding to say anything, Princess Celestia walked up to the couple, followed by her sister, Luna.

“I’m so happy for the both of you.” The white Alicorn said, smiling. Pinkie grinned and giggled; Discord just blushed and stared at the floor.

The smaller navy blue Princess nodded. “We are very happy to see that you two are finally married! It has been about a year since that first little meeting, hasn’t it?” Luna grinned and raised her eyebrow. Discord nodded.

“And, Princess Luna,” Pinkie smiled and bowed. “We have you to thank for it. I couldn’t be happier right now!” Princess Luna was just about to open her mouth when Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Rarity ran up to the group. Rarity stopped momentarily to blow her nose, which made Pinkie giggle. She remembered Rarity always cried at weddings.

“I say this at, like, every wedding, but…” Rainbow grinned and leaped up in the air, spreading her wings and flying upward. “BEST. WEDDING. EVER!!!” a few moments later, everything was shaken up by a Sonic Rainboom, including Pinkie’s mane. It was now a frizzier ball of hair than usual.

Pinkie giggled as Discord ran his claw through it to straighten it up a bit. It soon returned to its normal puffiness level. They both blushed and chuckled.

“I, uh…” Twilight cleared her throat and shook her head. Her eyes sparkled a little bit; Pinkie could tell she was very happy for them. “I’m so, so happy for you two!” said the purple Unicorn with a slight sniffle. Pinkie walked up to her friend and hugged her, grinning. Discord kept his distance, since he wasn’t quite sure if Twilight WANTED a hug from him right now, but Twilight motioned for him to come over. He flew over and the three had a group hug, which received several “awws” from the gathering of ponies that were there.

Spike, who was on Twilight’s back, rolled his eyes and held back a smile. “Eh, mush…” he then received some laughs from Twilight and Pinkie.

Soon, there were dull-colored ponies crowding around Pinkie. She smiled and realized this was her family, who she hadn’t seen in a couple years or more! She’d lost count.

Gathered at the wedding were Pinkie’s mother, Sue. Her father, Clyde. And her two sisters, Blinkie Pie and Inkie Pie. Inkie, the more cheerful one than Blinkie, crashed into Pinkie with a hug, which received some snorting and giggling from the pink party mare. Blinkie, on the other hoof, walked up to Pinkie and smiled.

“I love ya, sis.” She said, hugging Pinkie too. Discord stood back and watched his little pink balloon hugging her sisters. He was then distracted by a dull colored yellow pony looking up at him. Discord looked down at the pony and smiled, then flapped his wings and floated off the ground, flipping onto his side and crossing his arms.

“Well, hello.” He said simply. “I assume you’re related to Pinkie Pie? Either that or you’re MY father…” Discord chuckled and eyed the pony, whose eyes were on him curiously. “Hm, if you’re my father, I wonder if mother looks any worse?” He laughed for a few moments, and then wiped a tear from his eye. He didn’t really mind the fact that Pinkie’s whole family was glaring at him, because…

Pinkie certainly got a kick out of his little “joke”. She giggled and snorted until she was nudged by Blinkie, who glowered at her. The laughs stopped and Pinkie gave a small, “Mmm…” Discord looked at Clyde, who stomped his hoof.

“I take it that that was an insult?” Discord’s eyes widened slightly, but he kept the smirk.

“Oh, of course not! Don’t think like THAT! Think positive! That was more of a…mmm…” he thought for a moment, “An offence!” Pinkie felt herself blush slightly. Her parents hadn’t ever met Discord before, and she was afraid he was making a bad impression on them.

Actually, a worse impression. The first time Discord was released, he had turned their crop of rocks into a crop of frogs, and their house into a bouncy house.

Pinkie Pie shook her head ever so slowly at Discord, signaling to him that even she didn’t find it funny. He slowly stopped laughing and frowned slightly.

“Er…sorry about that.” He sank back to the ground and landed on all fours, blushing slightly. Blinkie snorted and shook her head, she wore a slight frown. Inkie frowned, but didn’t say a word; her purple eyes were on Pinkie, who stared blankly at the floor.

“It’s alright.” Said Pinkie’s mother, Sue. She smiled and nodded at Discord. “I found it rather funny, I did.” She nodded and giggled slightly. Pinkie’s mouth dropped to the floor, and then popped back up. She looked rather shocked.

“What is it, Pinkie?” said Inkie with a slight smile. “A little surprised, are we?”

“Um…” Pinkie shook her head, grinning. “No, not at all! Just…when did mom learn the meaning of ‘funny’ exactly?”

Blinkie answered for her sister, “When she heard you were gettin’ married. She was smilin’ when she did her chores all the real long day.” The blue pony nodded. “Me ‘n Inks were pretty happy too, of course.”

Clyde spoke up, “Of course we were! Me, your ma, and your sisters got somethin’ for you and Discord, Pinkie!” he smiled and nodded at Inkie, who grinned, nodded, and ran to a wooden carriage, she reached in and pulled out a small box, she put it in her mouth and ran back over to the group, putting the present on the floor gently.

“Ooh! A gift? For us? Thank you guys so much!!” Pinkie bounced up in the air and walked over to the present, pulling on the yellow ribbon. The box opened and revealed a small snow globe. Discord flew over to it, circling around it counterclockwise. Pinkie Pie circled around it, too, but clockwise.

This resulted in a head-bump, since klutzy little Discord was flying so close to the ground. The two blushed darkly and chortled at their own silliness. This received a few “Awws” and giggles from everypony.

The two grinned at each other and both leaned over to examine the snow globe. It had a heart engraved with the letter “P”, a plus sign, and the letter “D”. Then below, there was an equal sign with the word “Love” under it.

The two stared at this for a few moments. Pinkie glanced at Discord, and then leaned up against him softly, nuzzling into his fur. He blushed and nuzzled her back. This produced the biggest “Aww” of the day.

Sue smiled as she wiped a tear from her eye. Clyde grinned. Both Blinkie and Inkie stared at Discord and Pinkie, smiling the biggest smiles they’d had in a long time.

“Who…who made it?” asked Pinkie. “It’s so beautiful…” she picked up the snow globe and shook it. Then she placed it back down as the little white bits flew up, then fell back down.

“Well…” Blinkie started. “When we were minin’, Inkie and I, we found this beautiful pink quartz.”

“And,” Inkie continued. “I decided to carve it into a heart and put it in me and Blinkie’s room. It’s the most colorful thing where we live.” She giggled, “As you know, sis.”

“So, anyways,” Blinkie said, “When we heard about you two gettin’ married, we decided to carve your initials in it.”

“And we made a little snow globe…” Inkie grinned, “And we put the quartz and the white stuff inside!” the two smiled.

Pinkie looked at her sisters, “It’s super-de-duper wonderific! Thank you girls so, so much!!”

“No problem, sis!” the two girls said in unison, smiling. Pinkie smiled back at them happily, as did Discord. Then the draconequus smirked as he saw Fluttershy escorting a white pony with a blue mane and black glasses up to the turntables. That meant he’d get a dance with Pinkie soon. Vinyl Scratch, the DJ pony, lifted her glasses and smiled at Discord, winking. He winked back. He’d met Vinyl a few months ago when Pinkie was introducing him to everypony, and calming their fears. Since then, Discord and Vinyl had become good friends; they both liked the same type of music.

Then, another pony ran up to Vinyl. She was a gray pony with a darker gray mane. She was followed by a few other ponies that Discord guessed were part of her band. One of them carried a case that was in the shape of a cello, the others carried violin-shaped cases.

Pinkie grinned and bounced up and down. “Ooh, ooh! It’s Octavia and Vinyl!” she raced up to the two ponies, receiving a squeal from Rarity.

“Darling! Your dress will get ripped if you run so fast!” she shouted with a slight groan, and getting an eye roll from Rainbow Dash. Pinkie payed no attention to the frantic fashionista as she ran. Discord teleported from where he was to right in front of Vinyl and Octavia. Vinyl lifted her glasses and grinned.

“Hey, Discord! Sup?” she asked with a grin. He smirked as Pinkie reached him, and before he had time to answer, Vinyl had brohoofed Pinkie and was hugging her. Octavia, on the other hoof, looked up at Discord with wide eyes; she had never met him before, since she lived in Canterlot. She had “met” Pinkie from the Gala a couple years ago because Pinkie knocked her over with her radical dancing. The two had seen each other at the cake competition a while ago, as well.

“Hello.” Discord said, flipping onto his back in midair and coming close to Octy’s face. She stepped back a little, trying to retain her composure. This was, most certainly, the weirdest and DEFINITELY the biggest creature she’d ever seen, except for in newspapers and in art galleries.

“Uh…h-hello. I…I am Octavia…”

Discord lowered his eyebrows, and, since he was upside-down, turned over to see Octavia better. “Octavia, hm?” he said with a mischievous grin. “And I assume you’re the music for tonight?”

Octavia cleared her throat and nodded. “I am, indeed. Vinyl Scratch, my band, and I are your music for this evening.”

Discord crossed his arms. “You don’t look like the music to me. Here,” he cracked his knuckles, “Let me fix that for you.” Then Discord snapped his fingers and with a flash of light, Octavia had been turned into a cello, and the rest of her band was either pianos or violins. Vinyl had been turned into a boom box.

Discord and Pinkie were on the ground laughing within seconds, but the rest of the audience didn’t find it amusing. All except Spike and Inkie, who both received glares from Blinkie and Twilight at their laughter.

Discord sat up and wiped a tear from his eye, Pinkie rolled around in the grass, getting a few gasps from Rarity because she thought Pinkie would get grass stains from the rolling. (Fashionistas, go fig)

“DISCORD!” shouted a certain angry Unicorn. “Turn them back right now!”

“Aw, come on, Twilight!” retorted Spike, “It’s kinda funny when ya think about it!” Spike was made silent by Twilight’s magic literally creating a zipper and zipping his mouth.

Discord groaned, “Fine, have it your way…” and he snapped his fingers. Everypony returned to their normal selves, except Vinyl looked rather dizzy and Octavia’s eyes were derped. Pinkie snorted, trying not to laugh at their, as Discord would say, “Priceless” expressions.

Octavia facehoofed and her eyes focused, Vinyl had to shake her head to stop wobbling before she shouted at the top of her lungs, “THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED! WHOO!” she laughed and grinned at Discord, who winked at her.

“Wicked!? THAT WAS THE RUDEST ACTION I HAVE EVER SEEN! HE TURNED US INTO INSTRUMENTS!” shouted Octavia, her purple eyes flaring with anger.

“Chillax, Tavi! You’re the one who said we were the music!”

Pinkie sneezed out a sound that sounded like a rimshot.

“He knows I didn’t mean that! He’s just being a nuisance!”

Discord laughed slightly, “Well…” he suddenly turned into a bunny with puppy dog eyes and a snaggletooth. “You’re the one who asked…” it took all Octavia had in her not to whimper. Discord turned back into a draconequus, chuckling slightly. Octy felt herself grow red in the face, which resulted in a giggle from both Pinkie and Vinyl. She glared at them.

“Can we just get on with this?” she said, groaning.

“I will if you will!” Vinyl nodded. “Race ya to the stage!” she darted ahead as Octavia followed her.

“Yay! Let’s get this party started!” exclaimed Pinkie, bouncing after them, with Discord flying behind her. “Whee!”