Fluttershy woke up. She felt the spot next to her, and it was cold. Where's Discord? She thought. She groggily rubbed her eyes as she looked around. She was in a bedroom, but with stairs leading down. She was just about to get out of bed to put on a sweater, but she then saw two mis-matched antlers bobbing, as though a certain draconequus was walking up the stairs. Fluttershy just exclaimed at him.
"Discord! You're here! Where have you been? Did you wake up, and couldn't go back to sleep?" Fluttershy also got out of bed and put on her nearby sweater. She was still half asleep, so she didn't notice Discord's reaction to her statement. He repulsed at the innocence of her actions. She just walked to his side and looked up to him. He so wanted to smack that little grin off her, but he had to keep his character, because if he didn't, well, she would notice.
"Well sweetie, I, um... just needed to get some air. After all, we are cooped up in this room." He nervously grinned, he hoped this went over Fluttershy's head. She seemed like she took the excuse. Oh boy, is she motioning, that I, hug her? Oh please, I don't want to do lovey dovey stuff with her! Oh no. She.. she kissed me.
Fluttershy crooked her head at Discord. He was just staring at the wall, probably in his mind. Oh, did I startle him with my kiss? She thought. Fluttershy didn't think much about the unusualness of his actions. He was just probably getting a bit claustrophobic, like he said. She slinked passed Discord's still body and went down the stairs. She saw that there was a fire place, and the fire inside was dying. She placed some more logs into the mantle and the flames arose again. She sat down next to the fire place, and decided to warm up. She looked at the stairs, and saw Discord finally walk down. He saw her staring at him, and muttered a "oh." as he went to Fluttershy and wrapped his body around her, awkwardly.
Apparently she thought it was comfy, because she lied her chin onto his fur. He shivered at the touch, and got reminded of his order. He had to make Fluttershy jealous of Discord, but how? She's just so kind, like her element, but she is certainly something else. She is gullible. He decided for Discord to 'like' somepony else, but whom? He remembered the scrolls of names that he found in the ponyville town hall. He decided that, there is this one farmer who is quiet as her, but then again, since he was Discord, he had to find a match with someone else. It cant be a pony that she can just 'stare' down, like her friends, or it cant be someone she despises. Well, she doesn't have anypony she despises. Wait. She cant stare down a pony higher than her, or more worthy than her... He got his answer. But how should he interpret the princess into this love life, and make it a love triangle?
He got the perfect plan.
Amethyst was eavesdropping, again. She was looking at the two love birds, laying at the fireplace. She already had breakfast, so there was no need to go back. She looked at Discord's behavior. She noticed that, he was acting a bit different. Maybe he was itching to do chaos? Then he would me more jumpy and at the edge of his seat. No it's not that. Wait. What about his character? He is very random, but this looks like an impersonation! She was glad that she went in the tardis a few times with her dad, because she would have never known any difference between Discord, and this Discord. He would probably be all sappy around her, but this one seems resistant. Sort of, trying to do the least possible things with Fluttershy. Amethyst could just imagine herself in a black-and-white scene. Amethyst Whooves as the detective. She is a newbie on the job, but has learned a lot from her mentor; Doctor Whooves. Yeah okay, it's a bit childish, but she didn't really mind. She was a bit exaggerating the plot, but she was trying to have fun in the gloomy environment. She had to do something about the mystery of why the trio of fillies got frozen. Maybe Fluttershy knows about something... Then again she should probably wait until they were done having their 'time together.'
So she decided to start off with why there was a blizzard. She could ask the panicky Rainbow Dash, about the inside scoop.
"Rainbow Dash? May I ask a few questions?" Amethyst said as she levitated a small notebook and quill.
"Me? Why, I don't have enough time for, well, I guess I could answer a few questions." Rainbow Dash settled herself down onto the nearby chair.
"So Miss Dash, do you have any facts to why there is a blizzard? Maybe in the weather factory, something backfired?" Rainbow Dash was a bit surprised that she used the context; 'miss dash" in a way to show formality.
"Well, not that I remembered. I could say that the weather factory practically got destroyed by the blizzard! So I think it may not be the pegasi who was doing it." Finally, Rainbow Dash was co-operating. She scribbled down these notes onto her notepad.
"Anything else?"
"Oh yeah! I remember that there was faint pony shapes out my window. I also had to go to the ground, since the weather above was too violent." Faint pony shapes? Maybe windigos? Amethyst thought.
"Thank you Miss Dash. Now you are dismissed." Amethyst watched Rainbow Dash trot away. With this evidence, hopefully filling up the 17 pages, she would be able to piece together this mystery of the windigos.
On the 17th day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me,
17 notepad pages,
16 winter snowflakes,
15 snowdigos,
14 sorrow, filled tears,
13 flutter dreams,
12 muffins a making,
11 mittens,
10 signs of symptoms,
9 hooves of snow,
8 lookout ponies,
7 snowmare figures,
6 games, ponies play,
5 carrot cake cookies,
4 heating blankets,
3 windigos,
2 Hershey's kisses,
and a great big breakfast buffet!