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// How we met 
// Story: My Chaotic Brother 
// by Fizzyberries302 
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A young filly skipped down a woodland path. She often went for walks in the trees, that might seem dangerous for a small filly but she wasn't any normal filly. She was a born alicorn. She was around three or four years old, with a pearl white coat and light blue curly mane that stopped at her chin. "La la la la," she sung as she skipped down the pathway. A rustle in the nearby trees caused her to stop in her tracks and look in the direction. 

In the shadows of the trees, crouched a tall figure. What was strange about it was the fact that the figure was made up of different animal parts. It's head turned into the filly's direction, revealing eyes that were gold with red pupils. It gave a male gasp and hurried away further into the trees. Curious, the filly ran after the figure. "Hey wait! Wait!" She kept running after the thing. Normally a filly of her age would have run screaming home to her mom, but this filly was used to dark and scary elements. And her mother was no ordinary pony. The filly kept sprinting after the creature, when a foul stench reached her nostrils. 

She stopped running and screamed when she saw several Timberwolves coming in from all directions. She was surrounded. The nearest Timberwolf prowled closer to her and got ready to pounce. The filly could do nothing as she was to scared to spread her wings and her magic hadn't fully developed yet. Instead she coward on the ground and covered her eyes, waiting for the feeling of sharp teeth pierce her skin and kill her. But it never came, instead she heard a loud pop and something was standing over her. She took a peak and saw the same gold and red eyes as the creature she saw earlier. 

It was standing over her, like a mother animal protecting it's baby. Her ears perked up when the creature spoke. "Don't. You. Dare. Touch. Her!" it said aggressively. The wolves were surprised and howled, but the creature roared at a volume that could only be matched with Godzilla's howl. The filly had to cover her ears to avoid going deaf. "Why don't you go pick on somepony else!" The filly gasped when the creature snapped it's fingers and the Timberwolves were shrunk down to the size of mice. The pack of wolves saw the sudden change and ran away yelping. Only when the wolves were long gone, did the creature step away from the filly. The filly was still terrified from the event and seeing the creature made it worse. It had a long brown body, grey head of a pony and long neck, black mane, bushy white eyebrows and beard, lions paw, eagle claw, goats leg, lizard leg, bat wing, blue pegasus wing, red snake tail with a white tuft on the end and a single long fang sticking out his mouth. It held out it's lions paw. "Are you okay?" he asked.

The filly's eyes were filled with terror. The creature knelt down to her level. "It's okay," he said, tenderly stroking her mane. "I won't hurt you." Now the filly had a sixth sense. She could tell when to trust someone and if someone was lying or not. And her sense told her that the creature meant her no harm and she was safe. She felt the same warmth in the creature's touch as her mothers embrace. 

She slowly stood up and stared at the creature. "Thank you," she murmured. 

"Don't mention it, why are you out here by yourself? Where are your parents?" he asked.

"Back home, I don't live very far from here. And I come out here often."

The creature then got a better look at her. 

"You're an alicorn!" 

The filly beamed. "Yep! What about you? I've never seen anyone like you before."

The creature rubbed his shoulder. "I'm a draconequus. My names Discord, what's yours."

"Princess Mi Estrella Songbird, but Songbird's just fine."

Discord stared at her. "You're a Princess!"

Songbird nodded. "Why did you run away from me?"

Discord bit his lip. "Your kind and mine, don't...get along very well."

"Why not?"

"It's grown up stuff, you wouldn't understand. But I can tell you that I'm the last of my kind."

Songbird gasped. "What happened?"

Discord gulped and turned away from her. "I'd rather not talk about it."

"Please?" She whined, giving him a puppy face.

Discord sighed and sat down on the ground. "I think I was around a few years older then you. I came from a land full of draconequi. My parents had taken me out to practice my magic, when it happened."

"When what happened?"

"It's all a blur, but I do remember this big blizzard. At some point I got separated from my parents and found myself in a cave," he paused and looked around. "Actually it's in this very forest, anyway I hid down the furthest end of the cave because thats where it was warmest. I survived on Chocolate Milk and Cotton Candy," 

"Chocolate Milk and Cotton Candy! How did you get that?!" Songbird gasped.

Discord grinned. "Like this," he snapped his fingers and a pink cloud appeared dripping chocolate milk. He snapped again and a kiddie glass appeared in his paw and he he filled it up with the brown liquid. He handed it to Songbird. "I didn't poison it," he reassured her. 

Songbird smiled and took a sip. Her eyes widened. "This is Chocolate Milk! How did you do that?!" 

"My species had a very special kind of magic, so special it can bend reality. Anything that ponies say is impossible, I can do." 

Songbird's eyes gleamed. "Can you show me?" 

Discord looked around. "I think you should be getting home, your parents must be worried sick. Come back tomorrow, then I'll show you."

Songbird stood back up, shaking her head. "I only have Mommy and her sister Princess Celestia, but I call her Auntie Tia." 

"Okay then, well I'll see you tomorrow. Oh by the way, don't tell your family that you saw me, I think it's best if this stays a secret." he explained.

Songbird nodded. "I promise."

She was about to fly away when Discord stopped her. "Are you sure you can find your way back? How old are you?" 

"Three and a half,"

Discord was shocked. "And your aunt and mother allow you to go out here by yourself?"

Songbird hung her head. "They...don't know that I come out here..." 

Discord grinned. "Three years old and already a rebel," He ruffled her mane. "Atta girl, but seriously be safe when you're out here, if I hadn't been here to save you, you could have been lunch to those wolves."

"How old are you Discord?"

"Well, I was around seven or eight when by parents died, that was over ten years ago so I must be around seventeen or eighteen." he said, doing the math in his head. 

Songbird raised an eyebrow. "Then why do you have a beard?"

"All draconequui colts get beards at this age." he explained.

"Now shoo, your mother will be wondering where you are." he said, pushing Songbird back to the path. The filly flashed him a cheeky smile and flew into the air.

When she was gone, Discord teleported himself back to his cave and lay out on his bed talking to himself. "She was so scared when the Timberwolves attacked her, goodness knows what could have happened to her had I not been there," he rolled over so he was facing the entrance to the cave. In the distance, he could see a tall castle and a small white dot flying up to the gates. "The first pony to accept me for what I really am, maybe I'm not a monster like I thought. But she was scared of me, I would never dream of hurting her in any way."  he said before falling into sleep.