Teaser for FlutterFans · 12:49am Dec 21st, 2013
Winter break is here and I am finally able to decompress... for a few hours. Anywho, Power Ponies is coming tomorrow and I cannot wait to see what's in store for my favorite group of 7. But before any of that, I know I've been slow on updates, and I'm sorry, but hopefully a long chapter could suffice? TBATS is finally in the works again, and I have Twilight's birthday almost 1000 words in. What's complete is Fluttershy's birthday on Thirty, and I hope I've painted a good story for her. Again, it's done, but I'm waiting on my editor to get my PM about it. Since I think I've been keeping y'all waiting, how about a little peek into it? No? To bad you're getting it.
Seeing all her friends with their special someponies dancing together brought a warm smile to Fluttershy’s muzzle. Even from her viewpoint, she could still see the smiles on each of their faces as they danced along to the soft melody that filled the garden. She was happy for them, she truly was, but it wasn’t until about two minutes of looking on at them that she really noticed one painfully obvious truth… she was alone. Yes, she offered, but it wasn’t that she was physically alone at the table that started to turn her warm smile bittersweet.
Spike had Rarity, Twilight had Flash, Applejack had Caramel, Rainbow Dash had Soarin, even Pinkie had someone for herself, but her… nopony.
She never normally thought of such things like that, but at a wedding for two of her best friends, surrounded by her other friends and their coltfriends, certain things began to stand out as she watched everypony she cherished dance to the love song playing like it was made just for them, specifically her lack of a stallion to call her own.
She didn't mind, she really didn't, but it stood out to her like a bear drinking from a tea cup. Fluttershy kept her gaze on her friends, again, truly happy for them, but longing to have something they had to some degree, but more than anything, something from a stallion she had wanted since she was a filly.
“You know, I never quite understood how out of all of them, you managed to be the last single pony.”
Had it not been from over ten years of dealing with the surprise that one voice always brought, Fluttershy’s tiny litlle *Eep! would’ve been much louder. Thankfully, with the surprise of that one playful voice, always came its owner in an always unpredictable manner.
“Oh, hi, Discord,” Fluttershy greeted in no particular direction, waiting to see how the redeemed spirit of chaos would enter this time.
“Not there, dear, Fluttershy.”
Fluttershy spun around a few times until her eyes landed on the large willow tree. Where a hole in the trunk should’ve been, a circle of yellow with an inner red circle in the middle stood out amongst the brown of the trunk. The yellow circle blinked, and Fluttershy just gave a smile. “Hi, Discord.”
Discord’s yellow irised eye blinked again as his red pupil looked on at Fluttershy. A long piece of bark started to move away from the tree, peeling off like tape, but instead of bark, a slithery brown body peeled away from the tree. The body of Discord then sprouted his mismatched animal limbs and wings, but his head still hadn’t sprouted.
“Oh dear, now where did I put that darned thing?” the voice of Discord asked nopony as his lion arm scratched the top of his body like it was his head. The slithery brown body turned around towards the yellow eyed tree hole. The red pupil in the middle made movements pointing towards inside the tree before the entire eye rolled like a billiard ball into the hole of the tree. “Oh right, I remember.”
Discord’s body hovered over to the tree and stuck it’s neck into the hole. A few seconds passed before the serpent-like body pulled with it’s might. After some struggle, the mismatched-horned grey head and neck of Discord, complete with now two eyes and a single fanged smile, popped out of the willow tree with the rest of his neck. “Ahhhh, much better. Oops! Almost forgot something.” Discord raised his chicken-clawed hand and gave them a snap. A striped orange and blue tux appeared on his body in a flash of white. Not exactly a traditional choice of style for a wedding, but then again, most ponies aren’t Discord.
“You look good, Discord,” Fluttershy said in all honesty. Few beings could pull off a chaotic look, but Discord managed to make chaos work perfectly for him, naturally.
What have I got planned? Not as typical as it may seem, if it does give that impression... I don't know anymore. Oh well! Hope you guys will like what I put up. Also, I know some people don't like FlashLight, but I do, so I'm keepin' it.
Til next time fellow bronies, and here to Power Ponies hopefully being the best of S4 so far.
I think this emote is most appropriate: