Last day! Last day!
I couldn’t help but feel cheerful even as I read through a rather depressing report on the state of Stalliongrad's city coffers.
Last day! Celestia is back tomorrow and soon as she returns, I’m taking a week and doing nothing! Maybe even visit that spa Sunny keeps raving about.
Still, that didn’t mean I had been any less busy today than yesterday. But only a couple of hours left!
Three hours and then no more of this and if Celestia thought this would make me more willing to pick up a crown, she was delusional!
No way!
Taking a sip of my tea, I smiled and scribbled down some notes on the situation to leave for her when she returned.
Not going to slack off though, I promised I would do this and do this I would.
Picking up the next report, I reached for my tea only to glance down at it and see a big yellow eye floating around in it.
The next second the cup and tea in it smashed into the wall opposite to me as I scrambled out of my chair, trying to get my heart back under control.
“Discord!”
“You are fast on the uptake,” he answered and stepped out from behind one of the books and snaked up to full size, “Maybe not as stupid as you look, my dear ape.”
Taking a deep breath, I glared at him, “I’m surprised to see you, traitor. Would have thought you would have been hiding in Fluttershy’s mane still. You know, after I killed your partner.”
Discord cringed and disappeared to reappear, sitting in one of the chairs, waving a white flag, “Oh relax, I have no intention of causing trouble. Dear Fluttershy wanted me to… apologize.”
He didn’t sound overly happy about that.
I gave him a flat look, “Apologize?”
“For what I did,” he grumbled, “Like I would need to, I’m a creature of chaos, I just did what I do!”
“Well, you better not do it again,” I told him and rounded the desk, “This is your third and last shot, spawn of chaos. I’m not Celestia and I’m not Luna. I’m not Twilight or Cadence. You fuck up even once more and you are stone and I’m finding a sledgehammer.”
That got a reaction from him and he slid across the room, ending up almost nose to nose with me, “You wouldn’t do that to poor Discord!”
“Maybe, maybe not. But I’ll tell you this,” I said as I looked up at him, “Out here you may be as omnipotent as it’s possible to get, but I’m pretty sure you still need to sleep from time to time. If you betray Equestria again and you ever enter my realm, I’ll make sure you never stop screaming.”
He blinked at me and pulled back, looking offended, “I’m a creature of chaos! I can’t follow your rules! It goes against what I am!”
“Play your pranks all you want as long as nopony gets hurt,” I told him and shifted my wings, “None of my business. But betray Equestria and you and I will have problems.”
Discord blinked at me before he smiled, “My, my. That’s almost princessly of you. I see why dear Celestia chose you to take over for her while she is getting her… wings… massaged. And you have caused such delicious chaos while doing it!”
I stared at him for a second, “…Just get out.”
He smiled a bit wider, “So princessly actually, that I think it would fit you!” and raised his hand.
“Snap your fingers and I’ll feed them to you, ‘Q’,” I snarled at him, “And then I’ll hand you over to Luna. I’m pretty sure she would have words for you if you turned me into a mare.”
Discord shrunk down and sighed, “You are no fun at all.”
“Tough. Fuck off.”
Discord looked very torn for a very long moment before he blurred into motion and suddenly one of my papers covered my sight and he disappeared in a bright flash I could see even through the paper.
Reaching up in annoyance I tore the paper off my horn and read it. It was nicely decorated and printed with gold and silk with the text, “Special 24h princess pass,” written on it.
I frowned at it for a second before a horrible thought struck me and I looked at my hoof and leg. More slender than normal.
Closing my eyes, I sighed. The sigh was a much less deep tone than normal and my now much longer mane hung down over my eyes.
Kill him. Dead. He’s dead.
You know what, fuck it. I’m done. Celestia can handle her own damn paperwork.
“Amber?” I asked and almost cringed at the sound of my voice.
“Yes miss?” She asked as she appeared behind me.
Facehoof.
“…I’m calling it a day,” I grumbled, “Find me a path to the tower where I won’t be spotted by anypony, will you? Maybe Luna has a way to fix this before the time is up.”
“Of course, Miss Page.”
Luna damn it, Amber. And Sunset is never to find out about this. Never, ever.
“Page, I have something you need to sign he…” Sunset said as she walked inside before she just kind of trailed off and blinked at me in surprise.
…Kill me now.
Discord is awesome. And let's be honest, Luna will find a way for Page to actually ask Discord to do it again, at least occasionally. Or find a way to do it himself. Herself. Pageself
Proof that Page's changeling guards are indeed mocking him whenever the opportunity arises. It helps that they can even feel his embarrassment and annoyance at it, too.
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...I'm less certain they're mocking her/him/PAGE and more that they address situations like this calmly. Page is now a mare, thus the proper form of address is "Miss."
Changelings just roll with weird. I'm guessing centuries under Chrysalis have given them very few f&*%# to give about mundane things like gender.
BWahahaha oh you know Luna and Celestia are going to have a field day with this.
Seriously... just let this be a one time thing. Please..?
Damnit. I hate when the protagonist gets genderbent.
And it end with a fix which make him for ever as masre MUHAHAHA.
Yeah i would love Page as mare on the Gala.
In a Dress made by Rarity.
I know im cruel.
That ending was very funny. Page is like "Kill me now" because I think (s)he would not be able to live the accident down. His(er) changeling guards just don't give a about what just happened. I can't wait to see what Sunset does next chapter.
Damn it Discord this is not apologising! This is just using Fluttershy to have an excuse to be in the castle while you stick your fingers up at Page for not finding you. (Although I definitely think this is what he would have done, well written Hiver.)
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It's possible that the changeling guards are mocking him while addressing the situation calmly, given that they very few f&*%# to give about mundane things like gender. But I personally believe, given that he is the reason they have a food supply and the relation he has with the new queen, they would only respect him, approaching this situation calmly.
Unless of course, the queen said otherwise.
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Wow... I can't decide whether that's sibling like evil or just evil.
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Probably will tease the day lights out of him or just laugh... or both. (Eager to see too Hiver.)
If page is smart, his response will be something like: "Don't even start. I'm going to go to my room, go to the dream realm, find Discord, and torture him for the next 24 hours." Sunset should get the message. And Discord definitely will.
And the first line of next chapter is Sunset, in archer fashion, "Sploosh."
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I don't, but I do agree that it would hurt the story for it to be anything more significant than a one-off joke.
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She just might do that, doing both things.
He just couldnt help himself.
BWAHAHAHAH!!! Go Discord!
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Unfortunately, judging by how previous chapters have gone, the events of the next chapter will probably be sometime after Sunset's immediate reaction. We'll probably still get some teasing. Hopefully we'll get to see the reactions of some others. However, I'm fully expecting the genderswap joke to be a very temporary thing and Page will have been changed back by the start of the next chapter.
That's probably my single biggest complaint so far with this story. Each chapter is just a little snippet of Page's daily life. Not even a proper "slice" of life, but more like a small bite or free sample size.
Funny, yet kinda cruel to him.
I like it. 😏
Page, if you want to instant payback Discord for being somehow vengeful a***ole, simply find him in Dreamspace and set temporary geas on him, that every time he will want to say "chaos" and derivatives of this, will make him say "order". I wonder how long Discord would survive it, before apologizing, truly this time.
We need something about Starlight.
And seriously, without canonical ending of Tirek Attack, this AU derailed absolutly from Canon. Now truly everything may happened.
Lady Page goes to see her army
"Listen up! The first person to bring me a dead draconequus will get promoted."
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I had remembered the line but i could not for the life of me remember what fic it was from. Now I remember it was from the Chase. Thanks dude!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
That is Sunset's reaction next chapter. Also, Hey, Star Trek reference.
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You're assuming that Discord will go to sleep during these 24 hours. I guess he figured he would stay awake until some time after the transformation reverts, and by that time Page would have cooled off and/or Celestia and the other princesses would have reigned in his murderous rage. Probably involving lots of giggling.
OH......please for the love of FAUST can you keep him as a mare until Celestia and Luna return, it would be great for them to get a picture with their fellow new Princess, after all Alicorns are all Mares and this way Pages is keeping to that tradition even if for only 24 hours.
1. Page did say that Discord's pranks were ok as long as no one got hurt.
2. Discord put a time limit on the transformation.
So, Page is a mare for a day...
Time to visit the Spa...
Just remember that the room of Ultimate Order is big, blank, and boring, and cannot be changed, as there is nothing to be changed. And Apparent Single Occupancy only...
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It's going to take a lot longer than 24 hours for him to cool off. He wasn't exactly on friendly terms before this stunt, so Discord has firmly cemented himself as needing a "lesson" here and I don't see Page going easy on him. If Discord had been more genuine and open to Page's very reasonable limits I think he and Page could have become friends and this would have gone fine as a prank in that context, but Discord really shot himself in the foot with the timing on this one. Hell, if Discord had just waited a bit for Sunset to show up and gender bent her instead it wouldn't have been a problem (Twilight would probably have fun with that ), but making Page the but of a big joke like this now was a terrible idea.
R63 has kicked in. This is not a drill!!
“......”
“You look so natural.”
“Shut up.”
“You wanna go to the spa now?”
“No.”
“Can I braid your mane?”
“Yes.”
“Really?”
“NO!”
——
“Luna can you fix this?”
“You look absolutely.... gorgeous.”
“Baby? Focus! Can you change me back?”
“....I could....or”. With a glow of her horn the curvaceous form of the night Princess turns far taller, and muscular. Her delicate snout becomes more blocked and her hooves become more thick. Underneath the unmissable addition, leads Page to realize ‘She’ is now very much a ‘he’.”
“Or I could do this.” A much deeper voice now comes from the dark blue Alicorn.
“I—Y-you-L-Luna-“. Page is cut off by a gentle hoof to her mouth and a chuckle as he wraps a wing around her.
“Call me Artemis, my Novella.”
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If his male form of address is Lord, then the correct form of address right now would be Lady, not Miss.
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Ok
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I've been on this site too long. I'm pretty sure I've already read like 2 or 3 fics where this happens
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I don't think he does sleep
While I love this story, I can’t help but have this one complaint.
A lot of the interesting stuff happens ‘off screen’. When I saw this story created I thought I would see page have to deal with nobles and other things the princesses do but whenever something is brought up it’s addressed and happens between chapters or time skipped.
Though it is still an very good story I just want to put this complaint out.
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13 for me.
Well, he did allow Discord to play pranks. No good deed goes unpunished
you can only threaten Discord so much.
Sunset is so going to have fun with this, and will not let this go anytime soon.
I am so looking forward to reading what happens next!
and this stupidity earns you a downvote for the story. discord is very hard to write well, and you are doing it wrong.
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I think page has talked to the guy like twice and thats after being terrified to death during his first return as his house went loopy and his house plants nearly killed him.
ponies seem to have a short attention span but page remembers
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I'm certain there's more than a few morphic-based spells an alicorn can use to swap (or combine) genders... We already have proof in that Celestia turned herself into a pegasi during her vacation.
As for overriding Discord's spell? Doubt it. Best to just let it run its course for the next 24 hours. Besides, think of all the girlishly girly fru-fru stuff Luna and company can inflict upon Page!
(Don't forget to take lots of
blackmailpictures)Oh Discord! You old scallywagger!
8714424, how did turning Page into a mare make Discord go out of character, or are you just angry that Page became a mare?
Well, I’m now caught up and I have to say that I’m sad that I am. Now all that’s left is the agonizing wait for the next chapter, and Agonize I will. Please don’t keep Fluttershy sad for long.
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You do know that None of the stories here are actually Canon, right? That means *Gasp!* not everyone's view of the characters will ever be the same. Some characters will act completely different from what YOU expect, while they act the exact same as what someone else expects.
To put it bluntly: This is HIVER'S version of Discord for this story, NOT Faust's.
I love how unflappable your changelings are. Rogue Chaos Spirit suddenly appears and changes the gender of your boss? Okay, move along, nothing to see here folks, back to work.
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I find it interesting that you simply say that he is writing Discord wrong without giving any example or reason for such.
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Enjoy joining the less than dozens of people. You aren't even offering constructive criticism or bringing up points.
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Funniest thing about Discord is the very pinnacle of his character to be in character is to defy normal convention!
His flippant whimsy and utter disregard for normal behavior is part of who, and what, Discord is. As a very fundamental aspect of his character. He is the ultimate option for truly random events, beyond even the many random things done with Pinkie Pie. Discord is easy to write for in the sense that the only rule with him is, in most stories (darker themes or his being a secret villain are naturally a different matter), to enact weird and often lighthearted disregard for physics or most social mores. He is, in the end, both a force unto himself and particularly eccentric in personality.
This was a rather entertaining approach to Discord just being himself on every level.
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"The Author didn't write their own story to my personal, exact specifications, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
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Why offer constructive criticism when its easier to bitch and moan right?
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Yayyyy!!!!!