//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Pranks gone wrong. // Story: The shrinking Pegasus // by Mrchibivampire //------------------------------// Later that same night. Luna slowly opened her eyes, only to quickly close them again, the light in room was too bright for her unaccustomed eyes. She looked around at her surroundings and realised quickly that she was laying in one of the castles hospital beds, she sat up, she realised that her bed was surrounded by a set of light purple drapes. Outside the drapes she could see two shadows moving around her bed, talking to each other, she perked her ears and listened in on the conversation. “So how is she doing, is she going to be okay?” It was Celestia's voice, Luna would never mistake it. “Well physically she is fine, no damage whatsoever, not even a small burn or anything.” It was the voice of Dr Scalpel, her and Celestia's private doctor. “That is wonderful news! Considering the fact that she fell from space. I would have expected some kind of damage.” “It’s nothing short of amazing, something must have been protecting her during her descending and keep her safe. But what?” “Who cares. The important thing is that she is safe. I hope she wakes up soon. I trust your skills as a doctor but I’m still worried.” “That’s understandable. You should get back to your quarters my princess, if her condition gets worse or she awakens I’ll send for you.” Luna had heard enough and decided to speak up. “Sister I’m awak-” Her sentence was cut short due to heavy coughing. “Luna!” Celestia pulled the drapes away, she smiled happily and shed a tear of relief. She proceeded to pour Luna a glass of water from the pitcher standing next to her bed. “Here sister, drink.” She levitated the glass in front of Luna and held it up to Luna’s mouth so she could drink. Luna drank deep from the water. Once she finished she closed her eyes and shook her head a few times, hoping that she would be able to see properly. She looked up at her sister and let out a surprised gasp. “Sister.......” She covered her mouth with her hooves and looked up at her sister who had a concerned look on her face. Luna was in a bit of shock after hearing her own voice, it was a lot higher pitched than normal and her sister was towering over her. She looked at her hooves and then back up at Celestia. Tears started to form in her eyes and she sniffled lighty. As the tears began rolling down her cheeks, Celestia gently placed one of her wings around her. “How?......Why?........Sister, how did this happen and more importantly why?” She said between sobs. Celestia leaned closer to Luna and nuzzled her, Luna grabbed the tip of Celestia's muzzle, she was shivering like a puppy, alone in a thunderstorm. “Luna, it’s nothing to worry about. It’s onl-” “NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT!? SISTER I'M A FOAL!” Luna burst into tears and they quickly descended down upon her bed sheets, darkening the once white sheets. Celestia gently picked up her sister and laid herself down on the floor, she then placed Luna in between her forehooves, thus allowing her little sister to cry into her chest. “Luna I understand that you are upset. But there is absolutely nothing to worry about. You see, when you were flying through space at such velocity that your body was in a state similar to a magical surge thus unable to keep up with the rapid usage of magic. Simple put your body was wasting more magic that it could produce and this is the tradeoff. But fear not little sister, you will be back to normal in a couple of days, it’s nothing permanent.” Luna looked up at her, now a lot bigger sister. “Thats good, but can you promise me one thing?” Celestia wiped away Luna’s tears and smiled. “Of Course little sister, anything for you.” Luna crossed her hooves and tried to look menacing, of course it only made her look more adorable. “Promise me that I get to light Discord’s tail on FIRE!” She snorted and a two small jets of steam escaped her nose. “Hahaha. Of Course sister. I’ll even let you in on a little secret.” Luna’s ears perked and she looked at her sister with a devilish grin. “Discord hates peanut butter.” “What, seriously? That was the last thing I expected you to say. I was hoping for something more juicy.” Luna pouted. But quickly looked back up at her sister. ”Oh yeah I have been meaning to ask you this, sister, why do you have a moustache?” Celestia’s eyes widened and she rose to her hooves. She placed Luna on her back and walked over to a mirror, after staring into it for a few seconds she tried to rub it of but to no avail. She proceeded to dip a cloth in water and trying again, once again to no avail. her temper went from slightly annoyed to solarflare in an instant. Most noticeably by the fact that she was snorting fire out of her nose and both her mane and tail was starting to glow with an intense red color. “Discord!” The pure amount of hatred in her tone was enough to melt both the mirror and the part of the stonewall behind it.. Luna had never seen the vein in her sister's forehead pulsate like that before. She carefully slid down onto the floor and hid under her hospital bed. When Celestia gets this angry there is only one reasonable thing to do. DUCK AND COVER! “DISCORD!” Celestia shouted. A jet of steam flew through the entire castle, a pillar of fire rose from her body and pierced the roof and light up the night sky like a massive firework of destruction. Luckily there were only twelve casualties this time around, they were all taken to the hospital wing for severe burn treatment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discord was soaring through the night sky, enjoying the cool breeze. “I always enjoyed the nights more than the days. Simple because there are no stars to play with in the day, unless I make it so that is, but that’s not the same. I mean sure I could draw a picture of a Celestia’s royal rear using the clouds. But it’s so much more fun to do it with the stars, that way only a few ponies will know what they are looking at the moment they lay their eyes upon it..” He gazed upon his masterpiece and snorted. Suddenly he was hit in the face by a heat wave originating from the castle. A shiver went down his spine and the flame pillar in the distance was not helping. Discord cleared his throat and stopped dead in his track. “Crap........... she must have noticed the moustache.” “Fudge..... *sigh* I guess I'm not sleeping in the castle tonight. Well it’s a lovely evening anyway, I might as well go camping by the old river.” Discord snapped his talon and teleported to a nearby river, he started a fire and sat down on a log. He snapped his talon again and he was now donning a full cowboy costume, complete with a story of hay in his talon and a snake in his boot. He cleared his throat and spat some tobacco into the fire, he then stuck the haystrand in his mouth. “Well partner, when the misses is on her time of the month, you better stay clear. He said imitating Applejack’s accent. A very angry hissing could be heard from his boot, he plucked the boot of his goat hoof. “Andy. Who the heck is Andy?” And proceeded to shake it a few times. Grayscale the snake fell out and hissed at him. “YOU!.......... You better send me back to my goddess right now....... or else!” He was pissed off. “Howdy partner, you looking slim as usual.” Discord grinned. “How about a song?” A guitar materialised out of nowhere and Discord started playing it. “Well there once were to cowboys all alone out in the woods and they discover that you could sleep with another man. Now they're having buttfun, cowboy buttfun-” Before he could continue his beautiful song, he noticed that Grayscale had wrapped himself around the guitar and was giving him a death stare. “NOW! You pathetic waste of air!” Grayscale hissed, while baring his fangs. “Oh nelly, way to be a party pooper, partner.” Discord unwrapped Grayscale and stuck a cigar in his mouth. “There we go smoke up, partner. Grayscale had accidentally taken a deep breath form the cigar and was twitching around violently on the ground. *cough, cough!* “And that ladies and gentlemen is why you don’t take a snakes smoking virginity.” Discord was smoking a cigar of his own brand. He blew out some purple smoke, which transformed into several tiny version of himself, they all started dancing and singing around the coughing Grayscale. “Smo... smo...smokings bad Mkay, kids?” “The mighty snake is dead, the mighty snake is gone. Now we will skin him and call it a day!” The tiny army of purple discords sang in perfect disharmony. A few moments of painful coughing later. Grayscale have had enough, he started spinning his tail, which caught Discords attention. a few dramatic spins later he flipped him the bird, with the end of his tail. The worst insult any snake could give to someone. He then slithered away into the night, mumbling things a E rated story can’t show. Discord was taken by surprise he had not expected to get flipped off by a snake.“Well up yours too, you overfeed earthworm!” Discord blew a raspberry in Grayscale’s general direction. He then clapped his hands together, making all the camping stuff disappeared and teleporting him inside his quarters in the castle. “I’ll worry about Celestia tomorrow, what is the worst thing that could happen.” Those were the last things that went through his mind before faceplanting into his bed and falling asleep. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luna was enjoying a comfy ride on her big sisters back, she felt nostalgic. How long had it been since the last time she had been carried on her sisters back? Celestia was muttering something in the ancient Equestrian tongue as she walked. “Den där satans Discord! Han ska få betala för den här jävla mustaschen. När jag får tag på honom ska jag vrida nacken av honom.” She turned her head and looked at her sister. Luna was having a hard time keeping her eyes open and she was yawning quite a lot. Celestia was melting on the inside, Luna was so adorable. But she should not get carried away, Luna would be back to normal in a few days. But then again, a little fun could not harm. Could it? “Are you feeling okay little sister?” Celestia stopped in her tracks and gave Luna a quick cuddle. “I’m fine sister, tired but fine.” Luna said, doing her best to stifle a yawn. failing adorably, but she still tried. Celestia smiled and walked inside her quarters, she walked up to her bed, she carried Luna off her back by the scruff of her neck and gently sat her down on the bed. “Well let’s go to sleep then shall we?” She climbed into the bed and spread her wing on top of Luna. Luna was too tired to say anything about the whole wing cradle. But a part of her mind enjoyed it, it made her feel safe. Luna yawned again. “Good night sister.” She drifted off to sleep in a few seconds. Celestia just looked at her little sister, she was so small and fragile right now. She was going to do everything in her power to make sure that she was safe until she returned to normal. Celestia leaned close to Luna and whispered softly in her ear. “I’ll keep you safe little sister, just as I always have and always will. I will never fail you again.” She sang softly on one of the song her mother used to sing for her, when she was a foal.. “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray. And you will never know how much I love you, so please don’t take my sunshine away.” Celestia laid her head to rest and sleep, a feeling of happiness which she had not felt in a long time was tugging at her heartstrings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early the next morning Discord ‘s tail levitated him into the shower, his tail was preparing their usual morning routine. It morphed into a hand and snapped its fingers. Thus placing a bar of soap in Discord’s mouth, spilling oil all over the floor outside the shower, creating a big block of ice shaped as a heart, turning the shower on and finally flushing the toilet. The piping hot water woke Discord from his sleep and he let out a yelp of pain. “OUCH!” He jumped out of the shower and hovered in the air, which caused him to swallow the bar of soap, he gagged and landed upon the oily floor. He slipped on the oil and smashed right through the heart shaped block of ice. Several poptart cats were flying around his head and his eyes were rolling in his skull. The cats were nyaning constantly and the rainbow pouring out of their behinds, did nothing for Discord’s pounding head. A few minutes passed and he rose to his feet and rubbed his head. “Ouch. Why do this keep happening to me? What did I ever do to deserve this?.........Oh yeah right.” “Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan!” The cats circling Discord’s head chanted. “OH! These *Pow!* stupid *smack!* cats!” Discord muttered as he smacked them away one by one. Once silence claimed the room, he sat down on his bed and let out a sigh of relief. “Sigh, another fine day and even more dead poptart cats.” He rose from the bed and stroked his beard. “It feels like I’m forgetting something.............. but what?” A few minutes of hard thinking later. “Screw this. I’m cheating!” He then stretched out his talon and grabbed the script from the authors desk................. “Wait he did what?” Discord put a finger to his mouth and said. “Shhh, you are not supposed to be in the story, dumbass. Go play some Skyrum, or whatever you call it. “Skyrim.” “Hey! Zip it.” Discord placed a pair of glasses on his face and started reading. “Hmmm. Breakfast.....ehhhhh......Luna.....ehhhh...... Aha! Here we go. It says I’m supposed to go see Fluttershy and help her with-” *SPOILER* Satisfied with the knowledge of the Elder scroll, Discord threw it away and it landed inside a furnace. Discord straightened himself out and walked towards the dining room. “Ahh, now that I’m up to speed, I should go see what Lulu and Celestia are up too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Celestia and Luna was sitting by the dining table, Luna was sitting in a high chair, with a bib around her neck, getting spoonfeed oatmeal by her big sister. Luna swallowed another spoonful of oatmeal. “Sister, I can understand why I currently need the highchair, but is the bib really necessary?” Celestia guided another spoonful of oatmeal to her little sister’s mouth and smiled warmly at her. “Well ,Luna, It might not be necessary. But I think it’s better to be safe than sorry right? “I guess you’re right, it’s not the end of the world or something.” Luna said with a sigh. “Besides it makes you look even more adorable than you already are.” Celestia giggled.” Luna just rolled her eyes. Suddenly a massive explosion occurred, it did no damage and there was no force behind it, but it was loud. Thus causing Celestia to instinctively cover Luna’s ears. Then out of the smoke Discord appeared, wearing a sly grin as usual. He took a seat by the table and stretched his legs out. “Ahhh, such a glorious day. Good Morning big sun and.............. little.....moon?” Discord scratched his head and stared at Luna. “Hmm, looks like i'm in the wrong time period, again! Typical morning shenanigans. Anyway Hewwo Thewe Wonna, who’s a wittle cutie? You are, yes you are! Look what uncle Discord got for you.” he motioned dramatically with his hands and making silly faces. Celestia cleared her throat and gave Discord a cold stare. “Discord, for your information, you are still in the right time period. This is the drawback to the quote on quote prank you pulled yesterday!” Discord stop making silly faces at Luna and looked at Celestia. “Ehhh, I knew that. I mean your flank is way too big for the old days. So anyway Luna is now Wonna. I fail to see the problem.” He leaned back in his chair and stroked his beard a few times. Luna was furious, why could he not take anything serious? “I could have died you as-” Luna was interrupted by Discord. “Hey look at this, I found an airhorn! This day just keeps getting better and better.” “Don’t interrupt me you” *HOOOOOOONK!* Discord honked with his air horn. “I almost died you *Hooooonk!* I’m going to rip out your spine and shove it in your *Hooooooonk!* and that is only if i’m in a good mood you-” *Hooooonk!* Discord shoved a pacifier in Luna’s mouth. “Hey, Lulu language! This story is rated E you know you can’t say those things.” Luna spat out the pacifier and gritted her teeth. “What the *Hoooonk!* are you talking about you piece of *Hooooonk!*?” Celestia placed her hoof over her lips and gave her a stern stare.“LUNA! Enough, it’s not proper for someone your age or any age for that matter, to use such awful words.” “Hrmp, it's not fair..........” Luna turned away from her sister and pouted. Discord wiped away some sweat from his forehead. 'Phew, good thing someone manage to get her to stop. I was almost out of gas.' He thought. Celestia looked at Discord with a hint of annoyance. “Discord, I understand that you get bored from time to time. But please you got to stop with these pranks of yours, just look at what happened to Luna, I doubt it was your intention to drain her completely dry off magic. She could have died.” A hint of sadness manage to sneak into her words. Discord squirmed like and earthworm on a fishing hook. “Hnnngg, ragh! Fine I admit it. I was the one who pulled those pranks. Wahahahah! Discord covered his eyes and tears were sprinkled everywhere. “I'm such a horrible person. I don’t deserve live.” He said in between sobs. It was as if time itself had come to a stop. Neither Celestia or Luna had ever seen Discord actually being sad for something he done. The only sound in the room was the sound of Discord’s tears hitting the floor. *Sob* “But.......... IT WAS SO FUN HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!” Discord removed his hands from his eyes and pulled out two tiny fountains from his eyes. Both Luna and Celestia face-hoofed at this. How could they even for a second think that he was sorry. They sighed heavily. “Hahaha, ohhhh, ohhhh, ahaha.” Discord was panting from laughing too hard, he wiped away the remaining water from his eyes and plastered his trademark grin back on his face. “Anyway. It’s not like it’s permanent or anything and seriously, this is by far not the worst thing I have ever done, right?” Discord plucked a baby bottle of chocolate milk out of nowhere and shoved it into Luna’s mouth. He pressed the bottle and squirted some of the chocolate milk down her throat. This caused Luna to cough and she slammed the bottle down on her high chair, she turned around and pouted again. But then she smacked her lips together and realised that it was delicious, she grabbed the bottle and turned away from Discord before she started drinking. Discord just smiled at her puny attempts to high and mighty. Celestia took a deep breath and said. “I guess you’re right. I can’t really blame you for getting bored all the time, I need to find something for you to do.” She looked over at her sister who was doing her best to empty the bottle. “I hope that is not too much sugar, Lunas teeth are still developing and I don’t want her to get a cavity. “Wow, who are you, her mother or something?” “I’m just concerned for her health, is that so bad?” Discord blew a raspberry at Celestia.”Oh, please little miss sunshine. I drink it all the time, I got no clue what it is, all I know is that it tastes awesome. Who knows maybe it’s blood?” He shrugged his shoulders. Luna’s eyes widened and she stopped drinking for a moment and looked at the bottle. “Meh.” she continued to drink to her hearts content. “Anyway. You two are incredibly boring and adorable at the same time. So I'm outta here. Bye!” He snapped his fingers and in a bright light Discord evaporated into thin air and disappeared. “Well as long as he doesn’t destroy the world or anything like that. I don’t really care, what about you little sister?” *BURP!* “That was super yummy and I don’t care what it is.” Luna said with glee. Celestia stared in horror at her little sister. “How did you manage to get chocolate milk all over your coat when you drank it from a baby bottle?” “The dumb nipple thingy was making it hard for me to drink, so I removed it.” “Luna.... there is chocolate milk all over the highchair and the floor. We are taking a bath right now young filly.” Celestia teleported herself and her sister to the bathroom and drew a bath for herself and her sister. 'Is this supposed to be a punishment or something? I love baths and I’m going to make sure that there is water everywhere once I’m done. Muahahhaha' Luna laughed maniacally in her mind. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile in Ponyville. Fluttershy was sweeping her cottage, while humming a gentle tone. “There we go all nice and clean. I wonder where Grayscale is, he usually hangs around the house when I'm cleaning, oh well, maybe he is shedding his skin, it’s should be about time he is starting to look a bit grayer than usual.” She walked outside with a bag of leftover bread. Once she reached the pond by her house she laid down and started tossing the bread into the pond. All of the fish in the pond were viciously eating the bread crumbs as soon as they got into the water. It was such a peaceful moment, Fluttershy was enjoying every second, it had been a while since she had been able to relax properly. But as we know, fate is a butthole. All the fish in the pond disappeared, the water started to bubble violently and red steam was rising from it. A pair of red eyes were glowing, they were slowly rising from the bottom. “Ekk!” Fluttershy started running towards her cottage only to be blocked by two massive tentacles slamming down in front of her. A vicious snarl was coming from the pond and something was slowly rising from it. Fluttershy was hyperventilating and scared beyond measure. Another tentacle grabbed her around her stomach and lifted her over to the center of the pond. From the center of the pond a massive mouth emerged, it was filled with razor sharp teeth and a long slimy tongue was making disgusting sounds. “FLUTTERSHY!” A booming voice said. “Ahhhh!........” Fluttershy passed out in the tentacle that was holding her. “Oopsie!” Discord emerged from the monsters mouth. He tugged at his beard. “Rats........... Kraken buddy, I think we overdid this whole thing. “I only did what you told me.........” the Kraken said sheepishly. Discord pulled at his face. “Yes, yes, I know. Ju....ju... just get back to the ocean and I’ll take care of this!” The Kraken shrugged, he put Fluttershy down and then he disappeared in a poof of smoke. Discord walked up to her and took her in his arms. “Hey Flutters, c'mon wake up please. I.... I can’t go on without you in my life. Please wake up. He hugged tightly and a few tears escaped his mismatched eyes. His tears splashed on Fluttershy's face, she blinked a few times and looked up to see Discord crying. “Discord are you okay, what is wrong, why are you crying?” Discord’s eyes shot open and he hugged Fluttershy even tighter. He was so relieved that she was okay. But that is nothing he would ever admit. “Oh, finally. You know boring it is to watch you sleep?” “Why were you crying?” “Let me tell you something Flutters, I got so bored that I started to cry and there was totally not a giant squid in your pond that scared you half to death, thus making me cry like child who lost his only true friend. That was totally not the case.” Fluttershy smiled at him and gave him a peek on his cheek.”It’s okay, I’m fine now.” Discord cheeks blushed a crimson red. So he slammed a apple cream pie in his face, for obvious reasons. “Enough funny business.” He put Fluttershy down. “I’m here to make man out of you and begin the training at sunrise!” Fluttershy looked over the horizon and saw that the sun was about to set. She then looked at Discord and smiled. “Okay, I’m ready!"