//------------------------------// // Chaotic Redemption: Chapter 3 // Story: Chaotic Redemption // by b3n020295 //------------------------------// Chaotic Redemption: Chapter 3 The chariot was headed for the town square where are large crowd had formed. The town hall was still in disrepair from the Derpy incident. “Hmm” Discord admired the damage “What made you decide to improve the look of the town hall?” Twilight gave him a glare, “we didn’t, the mail mare did it, I’m sure you’re familiar with her, she goes past the royal garden on her rounds from Canterlot to Trottingham.” “Ah yes, my little clumsy friend.” Discord chuckled as he thought back to the many mishaps she caused as she flew past the royal garden, “She has created quite the bit of entertainment during my time there.” Twilight’s glare went unfazed until they landed in the town square in front of the now silent crowd. “What’s with gathering? Celestia, what did you do?” Discord looked at Celestia accusingly, knowing she must have planned some trick for him. “I simply notified them of your arrival, wouldn’t want you wondering around without them knowing about this whole arrangement.” Would have been fun though, Discord thought to himself as he, Twilight and Celestia all exited the chariot. Discord looked out at the crowd to be greeted by smiling faces and laughing. Discord felt paranoid, he knew at any moment Celestia could have something horrible done to him, or somepony would try to offer him cake or some kind of ‘friendly’ gesture. He felt sick, he just wanted to get to his place of residence and lock the door. “Citizens of Ponyville!” Celestia spoke, she used an amplifying spell so the whole town could hear her, “We bring before you today, a new resident!” She then went silent. A long silence came after, all the towns folks eyes laid upon Discord; he looked around, confused and disgusted by them. Twilight gave him a nudge in the side, “Ahem.” Discord could tell she was trying to tell him something but he had no idea what. “What? Why are they all staring at me? Apart from the obvious of course.” Discord whispered to Twilight. “Say hello.” Twilight assisted through gritted teeth, trying to keep her smile, she wasn’t a huge fan of the awkward silence that had been created. “Ugh... Do I have to? They all know who I am and why I’m here.” Discord complained. “Stop being a wuss!” Twilight whispered through gritted teeth, “It’s just being polite!” Discord sighed, “Hello, everypony”, Discord mumbled as quietly as he could, trying not to make eye contact with anypony, keeping his gaze at the ground. “I don’t think they heard you, try again” Twilight whispered through the smile. Celestia sensed in Discord’s thoughts that this was not going to go any quicker, so she cast the amplification spell on discord, making his grumbles be heard throughout Ponyville. “Hello everypony”, Discord mumbled again, he realized that it had been amplified for the whole town to hear, his eyes shot open and glared hatefully at Celestia, You evil, sadistic... Discord’s thoughts were cut off by Celestia voice in his head. We won’t be having any of those thoughts now; I hope you haven’t forgotten the rules already. Her voice rang through Discord’s mind. Let this be your first warning, let’s hope I don’t have to take it any further than that. Discord removed his glare from Celestia and returned it to the crowd as She spoke once more, “As you all are aware, Discord has been allowed to live here in ponyville without the use of his powers, he will be staying in the house next to the Library, I want you to treat him as you would treat anypony else. His past actions are irrelevant and I do not wish for any of you treat him poorly because of them.” The towns folk nodded in agreement to these terms, Discord was not happy about these terms, but he didn’t have a say in the matter. Great, now they’re going to treat me like I’m their ‘friend’ not to mention she just told them where I’m staying, I’d be surprised if they didn’t wake me up in the night to see if I wanted some flowers. Ugh. Celestia glanced at Discord and smiled as she heard his thoughts, then returned her gaze to the crowd as she addressed them once more, “That is all, carry on.” The crowd dispersed to wherever they were before they had gathered at the square. Celestia walked over to Twilight and Discord. “I’m afraid I must leave you in the capable hands of my student”, she smiled at Twilight, and then gave a stern look at Discord, “But remember, I’m always watching you, you let your thoughts slip back there. Don’t let it happen again.” Discord had learned to fear that tone of voice; it was the voice that if disobeyed, would have awful consequences. Twilights friends came to join them in the square, Celestia smiled at them sweetly “Ah girls, there you are.” She said, happy they had not forgotten to meet them in square after the town gathering. Discord gave the friends a bemused look; Of course, this day wouldn’t be complete without a visit from the friendship brigade, Twilight shot him a look, he heard her voice in his head. You’re on very thin ice Discord, don’t push it. Her voice was stern; she was clearly losing her patience with him. Discord wasn’t sure whether to be amused or worried about the possible consequences. “Ya’ll wanted see us Prin...” Applejack started before being interrupted by Pinkie Pie. “Hi Princess! Hi Twilight! HI DISCORD!” Pinkie turned her head rapidly between Celestia then Twilight and then charged right up to Discord, startling him and almost knocking him over. “Hi Pinkie.” Twilight and Celestia said happily, Discord said with despair, even though Pinkie was his favourite, she was much too happy for his liking. Pinkie returned to the group. “Uh Yeah... So as I was saying”, Applejack started again, giving Pinkie an odd look, “Ya’ll wanted to see us Princess?” “Yes my loyal subjects” Celestia addressed them all, Discord rolled his eyes at the pitifully formal term, he hated it when Celestia addressed ponies like that, like she has the right to wear that royal tiara and be on the throne of all of Equestria. He despised the position she had. That should be him, sitting on a throne made of cake and with subjects made out of gumballs in a castle made out of biscuits. Celestia allowed Discord this moment to be lost in his maniacal thoughts while she continued to address her subjects “I asked you here to show Discord around Ponyville”, Discord snapped out of his thoughts at this, he hadn’t expected all of the elements to be showing him around. “I cannot Join you as I have matters to attend to, so if you’d be so kind?” “Sure Princess!” The friends say in unison. Discord was not happy with the idea of being shown around by the elements of goody woosiness. Especially since he has no idea how long it would take. “Okay then.” Celestia said to them before turning to face Discord, “Remember, I’ve got my eye on you.” Her voice was stern, as was her face. “I’ll try to keep that in mind” Discord said through gritted teeth, he knew she was just trying to annoy him, but he couldn’t help but despise her. Celestia’s face suddenly brightened “Okay then. Have fun!” She said as she got back on the chariot. “Bye Princess!” The mane six said as she flew off in the chariot. Discord just grumbled profanities under his breath before he felt like he had just been slapped around the head. What did I just say? Celestia’s voice penetrated his mind. Discord winced at the pain. Yeah Yeah, You got your eye on me. Discord grumbled back in his thoughts while rubbing his head. The restricted feeling this security was giving him was starting to get on his nerves. The mane six began to walk towards Twilight’s Library, Twilight turned back to face him “Come on Discord, we don’t have all day!” She yelled to him with a smile, she was in a better mood now than before now that she was with her friends. Discord sighed and followed them; they all slowed down so he could catch up. Once he had gotten closer they surrounded him, making him feel somewhat uncomfortable. “This tour really isn’t necessary girls; I had a nice wander around last time I was here.” Discord said warily, he just wanted to go to his place of residence and go to sleep. “Well Ponyville’s changed since you were here last, dear.” Rarity mentioned. “Yeah, we put in a new market place, a clock tower, we have a new lake. We have a tonne of new stuff!” Rainbow added enthusiastically, proud of the help that she put in to their creation. “Well that’s just fantastic” Discord moaned sarcastically. “Oh it is!” Fluttershy piped up, she then shied down a bit “Oh but, some of the market merchants aren’t very nice. You should watch yourself around them, they might try to scam you.” She said, looking at the ground as she remembered that awful day. “But other than that most of the ponies here darn good folk” Applejack added, trying not to make Ponyville sound too bad. “Oh yes I’m sure.” Discord responded, not really paying much attention, he didn’t really care. They arrived at the Library “Ah here we are!” Twilight pointed out, she then pointed to the house next to the Library, “And there’s your house, next to the Library so I can keep an eye on you.” She said that with a smile which Discord found odd, it didn’t really suit the sentence as he thought she’d have a more stern tone. These ponies are too darn happy.”Come on, I’ll show you where all the different books are!” Discord’s eyes widened as he tried to escape the situation, fruitlessly as he got pushed into the Library by the six mares. This was not going to be fun. Discord exited the Library, bored out of his mind. That was possibly the worst couple of hours of his life. Twilight had introduced him to pretty much every book in the library, each pony pointing out their favourite books. He had to endure Rainbow’s rantings on why Daring Doo is awesome and a lecture from Rarity about the history of fashion. The only redeeming moment was when Pinkie was doing somersaults and knocked most of the books off of one of the shelves and watching Twilight and Spike try to put them back to where they were. “Wow, that took longer than I thought!” Twilight exclaimed as she saw the position of the sun, it was roughly 2 o’clock. “We still have so many more places to go.” “Hmm yes, maybe you should work on making your Library tour shorter, or more entertaining.” Discord mumbled as he was slowly losing the will to live. “My Library tour is very entertaining!” Twilight responded, somewhat offended, “Right girls?” She turned to face her friends, who all had their best poker faces on. “S-sure Twilight”, Rarity lied, “They are simply, riveting.” Twilight turned back to Discord with a wide smile “See, I told you tha...” Twilight began before her eyes widened and she turned back to her friends “Hey, are you ju...” She began again before being interrupted by her friends pushing her along out of the Library. “Heh well that’s all good Twi but we best get going, places to go people to see an’ all that!” Applejack said hastily as she used her head to push Twilight’s posterior. “Oh uh, but, wait, uh okay, um, bye spike!” Twilight shouted to her scaly assistant who waved back before returning to his lunch that was now cold, to his annoyance. As the group hurried along, Discord looked back at his new home before looking back forward in despair. This was going to be a long day.