//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: Beauty and the Discord // by Pegasister107 //------------------------------// Shining Armor found himself in Ponyville sooner then he expected to and, once he did, he ran home, not caring what happened around him. "SHINING ARMOR!" Spike smiled and hugged him, despite the tears in his eyes "Where´s Twilight?" "She´s locked up" "Locked up?" "It´s a long story and I want Cadance to know too" Twilight had only been three days in the castle and already she felt horrible.She had spent hours just walking around opening doors.Eventually, behind a golden door, she found something she had been wanted to find since day one. "A LIBRABRY!" She shouted, squeeing as high as she possibly could.She´d never seen so many books in her whole life! Suddenly, her keptor came flying towards her. "WHAT IS IT?! WHAT´S WRONG?! Someone breaking and entering? WHERE ARE THEY?!" He asked, moving his head to multiple directions at once. "Nothings wrong.Actually, I´m better than I was before" "Really?" She nodded and he blushed. "Apologies, when I heard you scream, I thought........" "That I was in danger?" "I.................Yeah" "Well, I´m not. Eased your worries?" "A little" She smiled "I´ve never seen so many books in my whole life!" She started looking around and gasped at a pile with eleven light green ones "YOU HAVE THE WHOLE DARING DO COLLECTION?!" "You like reading?" "My favourite pass time You?" "Never tried" "You don´t know what you´re missing! I would love to read this again" Without saying another word, the unicorn levitated one out of the pile and sat down right next to the window.Discord just stared at her as she started reading with a nice smile drawn on her; very diferent smile that he had seen days ago when she found her brother beside her.She looked back at him. "Um Something I can help you with?" "Careful, I think your eyebrow is trying to escape" "Ha ha, very funny, your highness" She replied in an obviously sarcastic tone "Thank you.And now your pupils are gone Are you sick or something?" "What do you care if I´m sick?" He was about to reply with something ingenious but he wasn´t able to and just stood there like an idiot looking at her with his mouth open. "That´s what I thought" She went throught the pages,pretty much devouring the book. "You have no sense of humor" "Oh, I do, I just don´t have any sympathy for you" "Figures" "That sounds horrible!" Cadance admitted, once her fianceé got done with the story "Poor Twilight" "Well, I´ll go looking for her" Spike insisted "NO! I´m going.I´m a trained soldier, you´re a baby" "I´m a baby by dragon standars, in pony years, I´m practically at puberty" "Never mind I´m going for her" "But......." But Shining didn´t hear him, he was alreadyin his way to the forest. "Don´t worry, Spike, it´s fine" "But, she promised........." He protested with tears in his eyes. "And you say you´re not a baby" And so, Daring Do flew off into the sunset. as she said to herself "Another day, another adventure" The end "I love this story Don´t you, Spike?" She turned around to realice that her beloved dragon friend wasn´t beside her.She sighed. Wait. What was she doing? She didn´t have any reason to stay there, in the castle, her whole life was in Ponyville! She wouldn´t take this anymore, she wasn´t a caged bird! And so, she ran to the forest, ready to go back to her normal old life not knowing that that was the set off of her new life. "Twilight Sparkle, dinner´s read......" Discord was surprised to find she wasn´t in the libabry as she had spent a lot of time there lately.He started looking for her everywhere in the castle, until he heard a scream coming from the forest. He flew to where he had heard the scream and he found her trapped, trowing laser beams at a manticore that just ignored them. "TWILIGHT SPARKLE!" "WHAT?! DISCORD!!" They were about to ask each other What are you doing here? but they didn´t have time as the manticore launched to kill her and Discord atacked it just in time. And so, Discord and the manticore faught until, finally, the manticore lost and ran away. The draconequus locked eyes with the pretty unicorn sitting terrified infront of him. He was SO glad she was okay but, in the same time, he was so tired he let some breaths out and fainted. The unicorn mare started crying "Discord?" She checked his breathing; he was still alive, just not aware. She contempled the option of running off but then noticed his lion paw had a scar. She put him on her back and ran back to the castle. Discord woke up to find himself in his throne room lying in................the throne. But, for the first time in two years, he wasn´t alone; sitting right beside him was a beautiful unicorn mare.And she was touching his paw? He blushed and tried to get up but his everything hurt "Ugh" She smiled at him "Good morning, sleeping beauty" His blush increased " W-what happened?" "You passed out after you defeated the manticore" She pointed at his lion paw and he noticed the scar in it; she, then, levitated a wet cloth and started desinfecting it. "AUGH!" "Does it still hurt?" "Yeah....I wonder whose faul that was" "HEY! I didn´t know I was gonna run into a manticore!" "But why were there in the first place?!" "BECAUSE I DON´T WANT TO BE HERE WITH YOU THAT´S WHY!!" They suddenly found themselves in a horrible silence Twilight sighed "I´m sorry I................" "DON´T!! I completely understand NOONE WOULD WANT TO BE WITH A MONSTER LIKE ME!!" "You´re not a monster" "Oh, come on, yes I am.I´m HORRIBLE!!" "No, you´re not.If you were, you wouldn´t have saved me.A monster would´ve kill my brother but you didn´t; granted, locking him out wasn´t anything better but.......You´re a ruler.......You........Were anyway.Rulers are always either good or a disaster and, aparently, you weren´t a disaster.I mean look at princess Celestia and princess Lu...... " "Oh, Cellie and Lulu weren´t fond of me back in the day. Heck, they didn´t even care when my kingdom was cursed" "EXCUSE ME?! This is PRINCESS CELESTIA AND PRINCESS LUNA you´re talking about!! Show some respect!!" "Oh sorry, mom, I suposse I should take manners class" "You should." There was another silence between them until the young unicorn sighed again. "Thank you" "Huh?" "Thanks for saving me.It was incredibly kind of you.And I´m sorry for everything I did" "It´s fine so am I" "It´s fine" "Ya know, you´re very strong for a mare.You could´ve saved yourself if you hadn´t have been so scared.Scaredy cat" "Huh?" "Miau" And so he started meawuing and tiggling her. She blushed and tried hard not to laugh "D-D-DISCORD!" She couldn´t stand anymore and started laughing until.......... "augh!" He suddenly stopped "Oh sorry" "It´s fine, just let me..........." And she started returning the tickles. They started chasing each other throught the throne room tickling each other and laughing.Eventually, the laughter died and they sat down again she finally finished putting the bandage in his paw and he said: "Well you look at that.You do have a sense of humor!" "Told ya.I can´t remember last time I laughed so hard! You´re insane!" "Why, thank you" After a bit of silence, she stood up and said "Welp, I´ll be in the library if you need me.I won´t escape anymore, I promise" She made a cross in her heart, put her hoof over her right eye and with that she was off