> Beauty and the Discord > by Pegasister107 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once upon a time, there was two kingdoms; one was filled with all kinds of ponies unicorns,pegasi, earth and the ocassional alicorn.The other was the home of an incredibly magically powerful species called the draconequi. Both kingdoms were separated by a very large and dangerous forest, ponies rarely if ever entered and, because of this distance, ponies and draconequi hardly made contact often.In fact, ponies found draconequi to be either ugly or terrifing or both. But one fateful,stormy night................ The "just-recently-crowned" lord Discord had bumped into an old mare asking for his help but lord Discord completely ignored her.Despite her aging bones hurting, the old unicorn was able to cast a revenge spell on the lord.The young creature returned to his castle to find his kingdom in ruins and his wonderful reality-vending powers gone, suddenly, he heard a voice behind him saying "If you learn to give love to somepony, it´ll be back" but the lord did not listen.He locked himself in his castle, away from anyone else.Like said before, ponies thought he was the "Monster King".And Who could ever love a monster? It was a beautiful summer morning and three ponies and one baby dragon made their way to the edge of the forest.These ponies were Twilight Sparkle, her older brother Shining Armor and his fianceé Mia More Cadenza AKA Cadence; the dragon´s name was Spike, he had been found in the forest by Twilight when he was just a helpless egg and was adopted by her as a.............................Nobody knew what those two were, not even themselves thought they couldn´t be mother and son, as Twilight had just became nineteen recently.Nevertheless, they and Shining Armor were three peas in a pond, never to be separated..........................Until now. "Take care of yourself now, Shiny" Cadence said as she pecked him on the lips. "I will, don´t worry, Candy" Spike stuck out his toungue and Twilight mouthed an AW!. As a royal guard,it was Shining Armor´s duty to hunt down every thread to the pony kingdom and, now, he was on his way to battle in the Everfree Forest. "If you need help, just do the signal and I´ll go look for you, I promise" Twilight said to her sibling. The unicorns both made a cross around their hearts and put a hoof over their left eye.After that, they exchanged a hug which the other two were quick to join in."Goodbye" "Bye" They waved their hoofs and claw at him until he was finally out of sight.Then, Twilight levitated a book out of her saddle bag and started reading from it. "Ugh" The pink alicorn beside her groaned "What?" "What is it now?" "Oh, it´s Draconequi History and Mytology" The unicorn said with a smile, as she showed the cover of the book to her future sister-in-law. "Why would you want to know of a kingdom that nopony has been to in years?" "Um, maybe because it´s my thing? Studying?" "Someday, things are going to change" "Sure" She said, in an obvious sarcastic and annoyed tone "Come on, Spike" The young dragon sat down on the mare´s back as she walked, her nose stuck in her book, not caring about anything other than what was about to be studied and learned.Not knowing how much she was about to learn. "There, all done" Shining smiled at his mision acomplished.Suddenly, he heard something behind him, a howl."TIMBERWOLVES!" He shouted, horrified and started running, he didn´t care where he was going, he just wanted to stay away from the wooden creatures following him. He ran as fast as he could until finally he bumped into a huge castle, completely dark and black except for some red flags in the roof.He started knocking furiously with both his whooves. "LET ME IN! PLEASE! I BEG YOU!" He shouted but received no response. With his strenght, he ended up making a hole in one of the doors and got in throught it.The castle looked insane; every wall was a different color patern and, since it was so dark, he would always trip over stuff he could hardly recognize even after touching them.For some reason, Shining Armor felt like that place used to be full of life but not anymore, he casted a lamp spell and looked around to realice it was full of stairs everywhere and even some of them floating; he started climbing up one of them and ended up returning to the same spot.After a while, he found a red wooden door and decided to open it.Inside, he found the most odd looking thing: It had serpent-like body full of brown fur; the head of a gray goat; the paw of a lion and the claw of an eagle; the blue wing of a bird and the purple wing of a bat; the back-leg of a light brown pony and of a green lizard; two mismatched horns and bright, terrifing yellow eyes with red pupils.It turned around and spoke in an even more terrifing male voice: "WHAT are YOU doing in MY CASTLE?!" "I-I-I´M SORRY, SIR! There´s timberwolves outside and I need your help! Can I at least stay here until next morning? Please? I BEG YOU!" The creature groaned "FINE! You wanna stay?! BE MY GUEST!" The creature lift him up and flew with his mismatched wings to another room, this one with more light in it but a lot less warm; in fact.....................It was so cold................so very cold.The room was a dungeon and, though he was terrified, Shining Armor did his best not to snap at the creature for fear that he would snap at him.He locked him out and flew away.Almost inmediately, Shining Armor casted a spell that projected a large pink star in the sky. > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spike woke up at the sound of his best friend passing and got downstairs. “Twilight? What time is it? Are you over working again?” “Why shouldn´t I?" "Because I´m sleeping?" "It´s just................I don´t understand" "I´m sure whatever it is, we can solve it" "It´s uncomplete, Spike" "Huh?" "The book about Draconequi" She levitated it to his face and went to the last page to find written: The coronation of the new Lord of Chaos is a ritual performed once in a generation.Not too long ago, was coronated young Lord Discord............ "And, then, it just..............Ends" There was a small silence between the two.Spike thought for a second that Twilight was right, something was up about that book and it really WAS important but, then, he remembered that his legs and claws hurt a lot and yawned. "Relax, Twi, and keep it down.This cuteness isn´t natural, ya know" The lavender unicorn took a deep breath as she always did when she needed to calm down.Then, she smiled and put a hoof on the dragon´s back "Yes, yes it is" Suddenly, a bright magenta light went through the windows. "What is that?" They got out of the house to see Twilight´s and Shining´s cutie mark, a pink star with six loose ends, being projected from deep within the Everfree. "The sign" "Shining" It had been one week since Shining Armor had gone off to the forest and it seemed like he wasn´t going out anytime soon. "I have to go" The young mare said, determined "But...." "Hey, I´ll be fine, I promise" She did a cross around her heart and put her hoof in her left eye. "I will come back to you" They shared a quick hug before running off.He ran home, she ran to save their family. The Sign led her to a terrifing castle that towered over her.She could´ve sworn she saw that castle before.She knocked the door several times before entering through the hole her brother made. "SHINING ARMOR!" The mare called. She kept walking until she heard a noise "Huh? Shining?" She spotted two yellow eyes with red pupils and gasped; the purple girl could´ve sworn those eyes were sparkling and staring to her soul.It took her a while to react again "E-excuse me, I´m looking for my brother" "Really?" A male voice answered and Twilight found herself shivering "The brave knight has to be saved by his baby sister?" For the way he was talking, Twilight could tell he was mocking her "I´m not a baby, I´m nineteen.Where is he?" "Follow me" Suddenly, the lights came on and she could see................. "You´re a draconequus" Twilight Sparkle was awestruck. "And you´re a pony.Let´s get this over with" As they climbed up the stairs, Discord couldn´t help but notice how beautiful she was.Her coat was the perfect shade of lavender; her short, flowing hair looked soft and, everytime they looked at eachother in the eye, he could´ve sworn he felt a spark.Finally, they went to the dungeon. "SHINY!" She cried, rushing to her relative "Twily!" He called back as he sliped his whooves through the metal bars. "He didn´t hurt you Did he?" He shattered for a moment.Twilight looked at him in confusión; seeing her brother like this broke her heart "I´ve been through worse" After a few seconds, the unicorn mare turned around and looked at the draconequus.Normally, she´ll be asking him all sorts of questions but now, a more important matter was at hoof. "Well?" "What?" "Aren´t you going to reléase him?" "When did I say that?" "But........." "Oh, look at the time, sorry my dear but visit time it´s over, come back next week and..........." "RELEASE HIM!" Discord was shocked at her talking in such a loud tone and there again were those beautiful dark purple eyes trying to destroy his insides, this time with fury and sadness.But that wasn´t enough to stop him, he used to be the Lord of Chaos and he knew how to put up a good fight. "In exchange of....?" Twilight thought about it.What could she give to him that he already didn´t had? He was a draconequus, he could get anything and anyone with a snap of his fingers or tail............Wait, anyONE? That´s it! She could.............NO, she couldn´t do that.But What else COULD she do? "I change myself for him" "Huh?" Both males were confused of what she had said. "Take me" "NO!" Shining Armor cried "I WON´T LET YOU DO THAT!" "You´re not my father.Besides, coming back is the only way you get to see Candy again" "And then I lose you!" "Well, I............" "DONE! She stays, you go" The creature interrupted them.He opened the cage and flew out the window despite the royal guard´s complaints. Outside, there was a carriage, he got him inside it and the carriage started moving on its own throught the forest and towards the pony kingdom.Twilight Sparkle began to cry. When the draconequus came back, he felt something inside him twich, he couldn´t stand seen her cry. "I didn´t even get to say goodbye to him" "I..................The castle´s your home now.You can go wherever and do whatever, except going to my room, that´s forbiden" "´Kay." He cleared his throat "Dinner´s at eight.Either you come or you don´t eat" "Fair enough" with that, he flew off. At eight, the unicorn got down.Her eyes were red and she seemed like she had trouble moving.She´ve been crying for hours. The table shone as if it was made of pure gold and was covered with various dishes.Anything and everything, as long as it was edible, was there.The mare picked up some cucumber slices and started eating while looking around. In the other end of the table, the owner of the castle was getting done with his third plate. "Are you eating...........Paper?" "Want some?" "No thanks" "Suit yourself" There was an awkard silence between the two.Discord contempling the mare´s beauty all the while.And she just looking at him, confused and intrigued. Finally, the draconequus sighed "You find me..................Terrifing Don´t you?" "What? No! " He was shocked to hear that and motioned for her to go on "Well, first of all, I live with a dragon.You can´t get any creepier than that.Second of all, I actually find you quite fascinating" "R-really?" He wasn´t sure how to react to this.They were both blushing red now. "I-I mean.I thought draconequi were no more and, acording to the books I read, you posses insanely powerful magic.You can summon anything and anyone whenever and wherever and..............." "I did Didn´t I?" He looked at the ceiling, as if he was recalling a dear memory. "Wait YOU LOST THEM?!" Now Twilight was stunned "But HOW?! Magic can´t be destroyed or created just changed.IT´S CIENTIFICLY IMPOSSIBLE! IT DOESN´T MAKE ANY SENSE!" "What fun is there in making sense?" He asked as he smirked, the first smile she had seen on him since the night began.She found she liked seeing him smile "NONE! That´s what! The puple mare groaned.Her eyes were shooting fire at him.Not literally, figuratively, of course.He felt trapped, looking at the fury in those dark purple gems.He couldn´t look away "That´s so stupid!" He raised an eyebrow and his smile disapeared "EXCUSE ME?! A girl of your............Position.Should not insult a drace on mine" Now Twilight was more curious than ever and Discord found that he liked the glimmer of curiosity in her eyes.The desire of knowing the unknown and peeking for answers and knowledge instead of power "Position?" "I-AM-DIS-CORD.Master of all things chaos.Lord of this land.Ruler and leader of the draconequi" "REALLY?!" She smiled the widest and bigest smile she had ever smiled.Someone to interview! Direct information! A witness of society past! Gold on her whooves! "OH MY GOSH! I............" "That reminds me.You haven´t told me your name" "Oh, right.Twilight Sparkle.Charmed" The rest of the dinner came and went with nothing more than a few questions from Twilight and little to no answer from Discord.Eventually, they both got done with their food and the unicorn went upstairs.It took her a while to find a place to sleep in as every door opened to reveal nonesense; each one worse than the one before.She ended up lying down on a poll full of baloons.She hardly got any sleep that night, in fact, she spent a lot of time looking at the walls and ceiling, which had rainbows painted all over them. All throught the night, only one phrase passed throught her mind: What have I done? > Chapter 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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