//------------------------------// // Bed Rest and Book Work // Story: Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale // by TheothersideofSunny968 //------------------------------// -Apple farm guest room- Applejack never left Sunny's side as he slept. She kept looking down at the stallion, thinking he looked so peaceful. She had been so lost in thought that she nearly jumped out of her skin when Twilight entered the room and put a hoof on her shoulder. "You ok, Applejack?" Twilight asked, very concerned about her friend. Sunny had been asleep for almost 24 hours after the incident with Chrysalis, and Applejack had insisted on staying by his side. "Oh, Ah'm right as rain, sugar cube" Applejack replied, but her looks said other wise. She hadn't eaten much or even stepped outside and it was starting to show. "Ah... Ah'm just worried s'all." "He will be fine, AJ" Twilight shot her a reassuring smile. "He just used up too much energy in that one blast. It's like running a marathon you didn't prepare for, but for your mind. It happens with unicorns. He'll sleep it off and be ok." Both the mares look down at the sleeping stallion as he mumbled something in his sleep. It sounded a little like 'apple fritters'. That made the girls laugh a little. "Stallions" Applejack commented, smiling at the sleeping yellow pony. "Stallions" Twilight agreed. "Hey sugar cube" Applejack turned her attention away from Sunny to her alicorn friend. "Ah hate ta ask ya, but when he wakes up and gets better... Do ya think ya could teach him to use magic?" Twilight was a little shocked by the request, but nodded. "I would be honored." Applejack half smiled as she looked back to Sunny. "Ah ask cuz, well, knowin' him, he's gunna want ya learn all 'bout magic and what not. And ah'd prefer if he learn it from ya. After all, who better ta teach him then the princess who learned from ah princess herself?" Twilight blushed a little, "well, I'll do my very best to teach him all I know." Applejack smiled easily at the oranges haired unicorn as she brushed some of his mane aside. "Ya hear that? Ah already got ya ah teacher. So ya better rest up. Get yer strength back... He protected them." Twilight was caught off guard. "Huh?" "Mah.... Our family" Applejack corrected herself. "He didn' hesitate ta jump in front ah' them and protect them from Chrysalis .... He's th' perfect stallion." Twilight smiled easily at her friend as se put a hoof on her shoulder. "I don't think it really matters where he came from any more, does it. He's found himself a good home." Applejack nodded and touch Twilight's hoof, never looking away from the sleeping yellow stallion. -Canterlot castle, Celestia's chambers- Princess Celestia had stepped away from her desk but for a short moment, her sister needed her help with some dream related research, and it caught the sun princes's sudden interest. She didn't really know what to expect, but ever since the incident with Gazer's comet, she's looked into every little off thing, fearing it might have a connection. Meanwhile, the master of chaos, Disord himself, relaxed by floating in the air, reading some of the scrolls Twilight has sent to Celestia before she became a princess herself. After reading them, he tossed them over to another him who placed the scroll on a computer scanner, scanned it, and uploaded it into a desk top computer. "Just about done!" The floating Discord said tossing the second discord another scroll. "Shall I also add the parts after Twilight became a princess and got her own castle?" The Discord at the computer desk asked as he grabbed the newest scroll and scanned it. A third Discord walked over, carrying several more scrolls in his paw and claw. "Oh! Don't forget these! All the 'lessons'" he used his fingers to make the movements for quotation marks, "from her friends." The floating Diacord sighed and landed on Celestia's bed. "It would be so much easier if we could just get the season DVDs and show him!" "Especially since they're all on Netflix" the third Discord chimed in. The other two paused, then the first grew a cocky smirk on his face. "Well why don't we?" The first Discord pushed the second Discord out of the way of the computer and opened up Netflix. With a snap of his fingers, the images started flashing at light speed on the screen. Then the printer spit out an entire book, leather bound and all, at the second Discord who caught it and wrapped it in a light purple baby blanket. "Awwww" the second Discord said as the third approached the freshly made book. "It's got it's mother's bindings...." With a snap of his fingers, all three Discord's reformed into one, the computer disappeared, and the scrolls sent to Celestia returned to their proper shelves. Discord held up the book triumphantly. "The elements of harmony; a reference guide.... and then some" he chuckled. As he held the boom in his paw, relishing in his victory, a scroll appeared out of mid air, forming from green dragon fire. The draquis looked over at it with a mischievous grin. He levitated it over to him and read it quickly. "What do we have here?...Another message to Tia from Little Twilight..." Discord read through all the letter, but enjoyed the part about 'Sunny' the best. "Oh I wish I could have been there to see the look on old Chrissy's face! I bet it was priceless! And it taking them all this long to just realize he was a unicorn?! Hilarious!!! Oh! But we can't have that last part in there. Tia can't know about 'him' yet...." With a snap of his fingers, all the parts of Twilight's letter involving A stallion named 'Sunny' were removed, and the letter shifted to make since without it. "There! All done!" "What's all done, Discord?" Princess Celestia asked as she reentered her chambers, not to suspicious of the former trouble maker. She already guessed he was up to no good, but found it to be more entertaining then troubling. "Oh, ugh, I just..." He pulled out the book he just made and presented it to the princess of the sun as he slipped the new scrol back to the top of her desk. "Made this! It's a new edition to add to Twilight's collection! All the adventures she and her friends have had since they met, in great detail!" Celestia levitated the book up to her self and began to read it over. "Wow, great work Discord. But..." Celestia looked up at the master of chaos. "Why would you do that? What would provoke you to make such a , well, considerate thing?" "Oh Tia, who knows when somepony might need to do a little research, who has no clue about Twilight and her friends, and will need to learn all about their adventures and issues, in order to progress themselves?" Discord replied as he snapped his fingers, and a large chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and strawberry garnishes appeared. "Now, how about a little treat, you've been working so hard." Celestia knew Discord was up to something, but she was going to let it slide until the dominos began to fall. After all, he did know her favorite sweet treat. As Celestia began to cut her self a modest slice of the delectable cake, the master of chaos snapped the fingers he made from his bristly tail, and sent the book he just made to Ponyville. More specifically, to Twilight's library, placed neatly on a shelf, where he knew a certain yellow stallion would be sure to find it.