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// The Chaos' Reform 
// Story: When the Harmony Was Broken 
// by Ink Pot 
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The Chaos’ Reform


Floating across the sky are
my pink clouds of cotton candy,
and the flowers grow rabid and wild.
Here! Try this pepper! It’s quite mild,
but watch out. It thinks biting is dandy.
Oh look! Your house ran so far.

This is my wonderful world,
I do love it when order is so swirled.
I am the king of chaos, and long may I reign!
To live here, well, it’s not for the sane.
Here, down is up and black is white.
Nothing makes sense, so just give up the fight.

Yet no matter how hard I try
I can’t help but feel lonely on top.
My throne is grand, that is no lie,
but with no one to share it
well… it is so boring could cry.
What’s the point of chaos if you can’t share the fun?

No one wanted to be with me
because they feared me and my powers.
So many have tried to force reform
down my throat, but I would 
only shrug and turn their ears into fish.
As if chaos, as if I, can be tamed.

Then I met a shy and timid little thing.
She was so meek, sweet, and kind.
Another like her, I doubt I will ever find.
With the patience of a saint, she put up with me
because she believed I was never truly free.
She didn’t care that I made her rug sing.

She thought I never was permitted
to be who I am,
but what threw me around the bend
was that she wanted to be my friend.
This innocent little lamb
wasn’t scared of the madness that had me so fitted.

I did all I could to annoy her.
I changed her hair color
and manipulated her with tricks.
Not once did she blubber,
give me swift kicks,
or let her anger stir.

She only smiled,
and I don’t understand!
How can she withstand
the chaos that springs from my hand?!
She would kindly say that
it was okay because it was my personality.

Somehow, she wormed her way into my heart.
I found myself upset whenever she was saddened,
and trying to make it never happened.
She liked my chaotic antics.
To me, her laughter she did impart,
while everyone else would panic.

I never had a friend before,
and I must admit it is quite nice.
I wanted to rule and spread the fun,
but how when none would approach?
Nothing is wrong with disorder.
Still everyone would run and hide.

But she had never abhor
me even when I changed her mice
into spiders. She left me stunned.
I was never reproached,
and to my madness she brought order
as my self-appointed guide.

Then came the day of my greatest fear
when it was I who caused her tears.
“Please forgive that carelessness of mine”
I said with a feeling that I couldn’t define.
My heart felt like it was broken
as these words were spoken.
I never realized what was missing
until I was scared the she was dismissing
me forever from her home.
“Please, I don’t want to be alone.”

Then what happened was a miracle.
She forgave me and I didn’t know what to say.
She made my lonely life bearable.

That day I made a promise
to use my chaos for good.
It was a vow most honest.
I will keep my first friend happy as I should.

It was sunny day outside in Ponyville, and Discord was lounging in a lawn chair sipping on a glass of juice. Fluttershy was in her pen where she kept most of the small animals. She was singing to them as she gave them their lunch. Angel, her white rabbit, was riding on her back, munching on a carrot. Discord titled his head a bit as he noticed that a bit of sweat was running down her forehead. It was quite hot today, and he did not want Fluttershy to get overheated. With a snap of his fingers, a large umbrella appeared above her, providing a large shaded area. She looked confused for a moment before she sent a smile his way and a thank you. She asked if he wanted to help her feed her animal friends- she never orders or demands, only requests- to which he was hesitant at first. He decided to try it. Slowly he approached her, not wanting to scare  her creatures away, took some of the food from her, and held out a pile of cracked grain in his lion paw. The birds did not move at first, but with gentle encouragement from the yellow pegasus they drew closer to him. Soon, they were eating out of his paw or perching on one of his horns. Fluttershy went back to her home to prepare their own lunch while Discord finished feeding her animals. 

He heard a questioning noise behind him, and he saw that she had his poem in her hooves. Mortified that he had forgotten it was sitting on his chair, he waited in anxious silence, his tail twitched in his nervousness. When she was done reading, she flew to him and hovered at his eye level. They stared at each other for a moment before Fluttershy give him a hug, her forelegs not quite reaching all the way around his body. Discord’s own arms encircled her small frame. Yes, he will take care of her. Even though the other five bearers of harmony still kept their distance, he did not care. As long as Fluttershy was his friend, it did not matter if they liked him or not because she was the only one who mattered. She looked into the heart of chaos and said it perfect just the way it was.