Happy Birthday!
The Royal Palace had a once a year festival in which they opened up the palace to its subjects. It was a day of celebration; they came to celebrate the Elements of Harmony.
It was a very sunny day; the weather team from Ponyville cleared the skies. It was packed; ponies from every corner of Equestria came to Canterlot. One pony in particular came to the festival, not to celebrate with every other pony; she came to see an old friend and somepony very close to her. She trotted all the way from Ponyville, to come to see her father at the Canterlot Gardens. She walked up to a stone figure.
“Hello father, long time no see, how have you been?”
She looked at him, no response. His face was filled with terror, no it wasn’t because the appearance of his daughter. She came closer to him, she laid a hoof on his body, and still no response from him.
“Well you know what today is right, or did you forget?”
She was carrying a box, and placed it in front of her father. She opened it, and inside the box was a cake, on the cake it had said Happy 20th Birthday! She placed a couple of candles on the cake.
“Even though I hate going to Sugar Cube Corner, I bought it anyway because they are delicious!”
She lit the candles; she waited for him to start singing to her, and again nothing. In her mind she thought, Wow, he has the most amazing voice in all of Equestria! She had tears coming out of her eyes as he finished singing, and then she took a huge breath and blew the candles. She looked at her father, and thought, I hope that my wish becomes true!
“How big of a slice do you want?”
She took out a knife, and started cutting the cake, she cut a pretty big piece for her father, and she chose a smaller piece. Then she took out a gallon of chocolate milk, and poured herself a cup and her father as well.
She asked her father, “So, do you like the cake?” She looked again, and he still had that some emotion.
“Oh, you do! How about the chocolate milk? You like that too! That’s why I’m the best daughter ever!”
While she ate her piece and drank her milk, she cleaned up her and her father’s plate and cup. She then brought out another item from her saddlebag, another box. This time it was wrapped in colorful paper with a big pink bow just like her coat. She placed the box in his arms.
“Ooh, what is this?”
She thought her father bought a gift for her, she jumped with joy, and she imagined her father speak, “Here is my present to you! I love you! Open it!” She grabbed the gift from his hands and opened the box. She was surprised.
“Aw! Dad you shouldn’t have! I love it!”
Inside the box contained a propeller hat. She removed the one she had and placed the new one on her head. She made the propeller spin fast enough that she was lifted off the ground. She was a good four to five feet off the ground and flew in circles around her dad. She stopped after a couple of minutes, and sat down again.
“I love this! This brings back memories, doesn’t it Dad?”
She looked up at him and smiled at him. She came close to her emotionless father and gave him a hug. He still had the same expression, and he didn’t hug back.
“Dad, you are so cold! Here.”
She took out a scarf, and she flew up to his height. She wrapped the beautiful scarf around her father’s neck and gave him a kiss.
“There, now you won’t be cold! You can have it, I have plenty of these back at home.”
She thought her father said something, “Thanks, it gets very chilly at night. So how have you been? Anything new?”
“Well, I went to Manhattan with a few ponies. Do you remember the three fillies without their cutie marks back in Ponyville?”
She waited for a response, and not a single sound was made from her father. Finally, she heard him speak. “Ah! Yes, I remember those three little fillies, they remind me of myself when I was young. So what did you do while in Manehattan with them?”
“We went shopping for some clothes, ate some delicious food, and I found a coltfriend while I was in Manehattan. He is so nice, cute and smart. I was going to bring him but he had things to do in Manehattan. But I brought a picture of us.”
She reached into her saddlebag and took out the picture. She used her new hat and flew up to show him the picture of her and her coltfriend. She blushed as his terror filled eyes were looking at the picture. She eventually flew down and put the picture away.
“Doesn’t he look awesome? I wish he was here. Oh well, there’s always next year right Dad.”
She imagined him nodding at her, she thought he smile at her. He approved of her coltfriend. “He looks like a great colt for you. I’m so happy for you! I hope you two have a wonderful life full of happiness. I remember when I had a crush on this mare.” She knew who his crush was but she wanted to hear who it was again.
“Aw! Dad, can you tell me who you had a crush on back ages ago?”
She imagined her father rolling his eyes at him. “Fine, I will tell you who it is..again. But be sure not to tell her, okay. Do you swear you won’t tell anypony about this!” She sat down and listen to what her father was about to say. “Well, the pony that I had and still have a crush on is... Princess Celestia. She was the most beautiful mare I ever laid eyes. Oh the memories!” She giggled, and he once again rolled his eyes, she was being so immature.
“Aw! That’s so cute!”
She looked over to the festival, it was almost closing time, and her time with her father was ending very soon. She looked back at her father; she remembered all the good times they had before. From him handing her a glass of his famous chocolate rain milk, to a bite of the cotton candy clouds, she would never forget those moments with him. She began to tear up, she turned away from her father and she thought to herself, I promised myself I wouldn’t cry in front of him. She used her hoofs to clean her eyes from any tears that were visible. She turned back to him. She felt someone coming close to her and her father.. She used her propeller hat to get out of there as fast as possible, and into the sunset she flew.
As the festival closed, all of the ponies left. Princess Celestia decided to take a stroll around the Canterlot Gardens. As she was taking her stroll through the gardens she saw something unusual, the statue of the draconequus had a scarf around it.
Celestia whispered to herself, “Who came and put this scarf around him? Hm.”
She walked around the statue and noticed something lying in front of it, a letter. His daughter panicked, she picked up everything she could and left behind a letter that she had written to her father. Celestia didn’t see her leave, but the letter was addressed to the draconequus’ statue. She open it up. Inside was a letter and a picture. Celestia was shocked, the picture showed the draconequus with a small pink filly wearing a propeller hat. Celestia set aside the picture and grabbed the letter with her magic. She opened it, and read the letter aloud.
Dear Discord,
For the past twenty years, I haven’t had a father, a father who loved me, who protected me from this world. I haven’t had fun since that dreaded day. The day they took you away from me, and incased you in this horrible way. The time I spent with you, Dad, was the highlight of my life. I would give up everything I care for so I could to be with you for just one day. One day where we could pop the Apple’s corn crops and eat the popcorn. Or make it rain chocolate milk, and we would just lie down and drink the rain until we couldn’t move.
I want you to know that I don’t hate the Elements of Harmony, but will I ever forgive them for what they did you and me? No, I will never forgive them, they hurt me, and they took away what I loved most in life, you Dad. They will never feel what I felt when that rainbow hit you, they will never feel what I feel when I see you in this form. I hate seeing you in this way Dad, it made you look horrible, I don’t want people seeing you this way, and they see you as a monster. I don’t see you as a monster, I see you as a provider. You provided me with a lot of things, food, shelter, and love. The reason why you created so much chaos was not to get back at Celestia, but to make me the happiest filly in the world.
In the end, I feel that you should have told Celestia about your feeling for her; all I want is to see my daddy happy again. I should have stopped those ponies from transforming you into this. If I did, we could have been here celebrating my birthday, and had that pink pony throw a big party, but I didn’t. I just want you to know how much I love you! I miss you Dad! Until next year, same time, some place.
Sincerely,
The best daughter in the world,
Screwball
Celestia was in tears, she never knew that Discord had a daughter, let alone somepony who cared for him greatly. She wiped her tears, and placed the letter back into the envelope, and placed it back where she found it. She went up to Discord’s face, and kissed him on the cheek. She flew back into the palace, and when to sleep. The surrounding area around Discord started to empty. As the gardens cooled, a tear was sliding from Discord’s eye.
“Goodbye Screwball, your daddy loves you too!”