Discord suddenly poofed himself between Stellar and Spike and remarked "Okay, okay, we got the formalities out of the way. Now can we go?!"
Fluttershy said to Discord "Yes, yes we can go. But first, we need to figure out where to go."
Discord then answered Fluttershy "But Fluttershy, I thought we could go to that cool Haunted House in the mountains."
Then he magically conjured up a poster in his claw and showed it to the group. It was titled in an oozing dark red color "Count Batula's Traveling and Flying Haunted House." Underneath a title, it showed a picture of an orange and black tower and pillar based castle decorated with stone gargoyles on a dark and moonlight night. A figure what appeared to be a bat pony was casting a shadow on the moon behind the castle. And on the bottom of the poster, it was labeled with "Now coming to the high hills of Ponyville on Nightmare Night!"
Fluttershy couldn't look at the poster with her friends, yet she commented "Um Discord, I don't know if the others would like to go and…"
Stellar Eclipse answered Fluttershy while raising his hoof "I wanna go."
Spike shouts "Same!"
Fluttershy squeaked "What?"
Rainbow exclaimed "Oh yeah! Now this is what I'm talking about!"
Scootaloo adds "If Rainbow's in, I'm in!"
Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle both said 'We're so in!"
Applejack shouted "Sounds like a real blast! I'm in."
Rarity elegantly stated "I suppose it can be quite thrilling to visit such an official haunted castle. Oh count me in!"
Twilight then summarizes "I guess it's all settled then. Count's Traveling Haunted House here we come!"
Everyone cheered with great joy, while Fluttershy quietly cheered her small little "yay." Discord at once happily snapped his fingers, automatically transporting them to their next destination.
It was true that Discord zap them to the mountains near Ponyville, but the ponies didn't see the haunted house anywhere once they got there. They only saw the discomforting heights lurking below them and the sharp dark cliffs surrounding them.
Rainbow was the first to say "Sooooo…where's the haunted joint?"
Discord shrugged his shoulders and replied "It must be around here somewhere. At least I brought us into the right area."
Fluttershy meekly looked over the trail edge near the group, she quietly said "Are you sure it's safe to be traveling around here?"
Twilight replied "Well it has to be at least, if this Count Bat guy wants customers to come to his haunted house."
While everyone was looking around and high above them, Stellar Eclipse looked up and saw something "I think I found what we were looking for."
Everyone followed the direction of his hoof and then gawked at the ominous dark storm cloud hosting a very tall and large castle. The storm cloud was near the top of the mountain and the castle looked exactly like its picture in the poster, except it looked far creepier and exceptionally older looking.
Pinkie cheered "Whoopee! Let's go!"
Pinkie's skipping was interrupted when she accidentally tripped over Fluttershy's quivering and crouched body on the ground. Pinkie immediately exclaimed "Fluttershy?! Are you alright?"
Every pony gathered around Fluttershy, all very worried about what was making Fluttershy act this way. Fluttershy then replied in a very frighten tone "I-I can't do it….It's too high…too dark. Please go on without me."
Applejack put her hoof on Fluttershy's shoulder, which caused Fluttershy to look up into Applejack's peaceful green eyes. Applejack then said to her "We can't leave you behind sugar cube. Visiting that haunted house wouldn't be the same without you."
Rainbow Dash then remarked while pounding left hoof into her right hoof "Plus you got me to protect ya!"
Discord added "And I will too of course! All I have to do is say boo, and those 'monsters' will be running to hills screaming for their mommies."
Rainbow replied with a smirk "Oh yeah, that was so not showing off or anything."
Discord ignored what Rainbow said and crouched down near Fluttershy. He offered her his lion paw and whispered "I'll be with you every step of the way."
Fluttershy smiled sweetly at Discord and gladly took his paw. Once she was up, she grabbed Discord's lion paw arm and leaned into it. This made Discord blush ferociously as he looked down at Fluttershy.
Ever since Fluttershy kissed him on the cheek, Discord always acts this way whenever Fluttershy touches him. Doesn't matter if it's a touch on the paw or claw, or a hug, or even Fluttershy sitting closely next to him, Discord gets nervous and feels his heart almost pound out his chest every six seconds.
Discord pondered to himself Why does this keep happening me? The kiss was so long ago…and yet…look at me! Oh Fluttershy why did you have to give me that agonizing kiss?! That agonizing…that…wonderful…soft kiss. Argh! Stop that!
Fluttershy looked up to Discord with big and gleaming star like eyes and said "Thank you Discord."
Discord in that moment could feel his heart almost break a heart vessel inside his chest, which caused him to look away from Fluttershy and scrunched his face in pain. Her cuteness was just…too much for him! During Discord's and Fluttershy's little scene, the rest of the ponies were awkwardly staring at them wondering what the heck was going on. That is except for Stellar Eclipse and the CMC. They knew exactly what was going on. They've been seeing this for months now. Rainbow was the one pony most puzzled by this.
She wondered Why is Fluttershy being more cuddly with Discord lately? I mean, I know they like to hug and hold paw and hoof every now and then, but these small touches having becoming more like public snuggles. And why is Discord looking like he's about to pass gas whenever she touches him? Well, maybe not passing gas because his face gets all flushed when it happens. Maybe it's best I don't know what's going on with their strange relationship.
Pinkie Pie quickly shook her head and body of this awkward feeling and proclaimed "Well let's hit the road!"
Gummy popped out of Pinkie's mane holding a small ukulele in between his gums. Pinkie sees this and shouts "Great idea Gummy! Travel music is exactly the sort of thing we need right now!"
She strummed some strings on the ukulele with her right front hoof and started to play a relaxing tropical tune. The gang journeys forward done the trail, bobbing their heads to the melody.
After a couple of minutes of traveling along the mountain, Sweetie Belle begins to sing along with Pinkie's melody…
Isn't this such a beautiful night,
Whoa, we're underneath the thousand shining stars.
Isn't it nice to find yourself somewhere different?
Whoa, why don't you let yourself just be wherever you are?
Look at this place,
Sweetie Belle, while dancing along to the beat, turned around and faced Fluttershy and Discord. She then sang to them…
Look at your faces.
I've never seen you look like this before.
Isn't it nice to find yourself somewhere different?
Whoa, why don't you let yourself just be wherever you are?
This made Fluttershy lean her head against Discord's arm while skipping along the trail with him. In return, Discord's cheeks turned beet red again and he tried to focus on the trail in front of him. Instead of Fluttershy's touch and Sweetie Belle's song. Rainbow, while flying by Stellar, saw this and was confused by Fluttershy's gesture and by Discord's reaction. She raised a suspicious yet curious brow at this.
Sweetie Belle then repositioned herself back into the front, as if nothing happened and sang…
Look at this place,
Look at your faces.
Sweetie Belle closed her eyes, lifted her head up to the stars and their sparkling beauty and sang…
They're shining like a thousand shining stars.
Isn't it nice to find yourself somewhere different?
Whoa, why don't you let yourself just be wherever you are?
Then Sweetie Belle's dancing and singing began to slow down as Pinkie's ukele notes started to slowly finish off the song…
Why don't you let yourself just be somewhere different?
Whoa, why don't you let yourself just be whoever you are?
Sweetie Belle accidentally bumped into something tall, hard, and harsh. She just realized that she still had her eyes closed. She rubbed her aching forehand and looked at what she just ran into. It was just the mountain. But it was the sound of booming thunder and crackling lighting that made Sweetie Belle look up. She saw a giant dark black storm cloud, carrying a massive and terrifying castle on top of it.