//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Confessions // by CartoonNerd12 //------------------------------// Celestia raised the sun high into the air. Applejack woke up on cue and finished her chores and stood waiting in the apple orchard. She tapped her hoof and thought, Any minute now… Suddenly she felt something hard hit her head to see it was an apple, she looked up to see Discord fiddling with the branches. "Discord! Get down here and leave those apples alone! They're not ready to be bucked!" "Oh, very well." he popped down to her side, "So how we going to this?" "Well, um… I guess we just take turns talking, do you want go first?" "Perhaps you should." "Fine, the first thing you do is admit to the mare you like how much you really like her." "Just like that? That's too easy! What's the catch?" "But it takes muster to go through with it and you need to do something to profess your love." "How would I do that?" "Well, you could do something Fluttershy likes to do." "Like… singing?" "Yeah! Something like that, can you sing?" "A little… But it doesn't match her angelic voice…" he sighs. "It don't have to be the same pitch as her voice, just use your own. Then you sing a song of how you feel about her…" "You… you think that could work?" "I think it would." He smiled but then frowned, "But… what if she just wants to remain friends? I dared to hope that she would be my special some pony ever since we came back from the Changeling Hive and if she doesn't…" "Hey now, I don't believe that for one second. Fluttershy thinks very highly of you, somehow I don't think she wants to be just friends." "You think so?!" his heart starts to flutter. "You bet, but you'll never know until you make that first move. Mares love it when a guy makes the first move." "Hmmm, I'll keep that in mind. Now, enough about my sorry love life let's work on yours…" he rubbed his hands giving a school girl giggle. She gulped, "Oh, boy…" Spike knocked on the cottage door, with Angel Bunny answering it and letting him in, he saw Fluttershy was hard at work feeding her animals, she look behind to see him, "Have a seat Spike, I'll just be but a moment." "No problem." he went and sat on the couch. Once she was done feeding Harry the bear, she flew over and sat next to him. "So, um," Spike rubbed his neck, "How are we going to help each other out?" "Oh, well… I guess we talk it over and give each other advice." "I suppose that's right, do you want to go first?" "I think you should." "Okay… the way I see it you want to tell him you like him, actually, more than like him, right?" "Uh-ah." she nodded, blushing. "So the first thing you got to do is show him, do something he wants to do, that you care about him." "You mean… like using his powers more?" knowing that Discord has been limited to use his magic at full power around ponies. "Whatever you think is necessary to win his heart, guys like it when a mare gives them a hint of being liked." "Alright… thanks. Now we do you!" she giggled. Sweat rolled down his face. Meanwhile, back at Sweet Apple Acres. Discord was floating while acting like a psychologist and writing down notes, as Applejack was ranting back and fore. "…And then she goes and takes advantage of him!" "Hm-mm, I see…" he was actually doodling but listening just the same. "So here I am hopelessly crushing on the guy while she doesn't give a hoot about his affections! I swear, I'm caught up in a tangle of a love triangle! I like him, but he likes her, and she doesn't give a da-" "Alright! I get the point!" he put a finger to her mouth, "So your problem is you need to eliminate the competition…" "Discord…" her eyes widen, "As prissy as she is, I could never hurt one of my best friends or Spike over a pointless love triangle we're in." "No-no-no, you'll not touch a hair on Rarity! Not that you should… Rarity can be pretty dangerous when it comes to some pony messing with her mane-" "Discord, the point?" she said in aggravation. "Right, you need to out pretty-ive Rarity!" "Say what now?" "Well, Spike did fall for Rarity's beauty when he first met her, did he not?" "Well… yeah… he did…" she draws out. "And I've seen pictures of you in your Apple Jewel dress; Spike was pretty impress then, wasn't he?" "He… was." she slowly admitted. "There you go! Sooo… Makeover!" he said in a sing-song tone and clapped his hands. "Uh-oh…" she said before they teleported away. Spike was rambling on as Fluttershy gave off a look of concern. "…So, how can I show AJ that she's mean more to me then Rarity did? How can I prove to her that she's not a second choice but the only girl for me…?" "Oh, my… that's a very good point. What can you do to show her…?" she ponders. "I think… it should be something that you haven't done for Rarity before. What haven't you done for Rarity?" "Well, I, um… I never had a kiss from her." "But she kissed your cheek, didn't she?" "I mean a real kiss, I was always fantasying about sharing one with her like the time she was taken by the Diamond Dogs, but I realized I was about to kiss…" then with a twinge, he uttered, "with Applejack…" "That's right! I remember that! And you were so close, too!" "But don't you think a kiss would be awkward at this moment?" "You're right… A kiss like that must be share when two ponies or in our case, two creatures are deeply in love with each other…" "So what else can I do?" "Hmm, didn't you give Rarity a fire ruby?" "Uh-ah." he nodded. "Well, maybe you should do something like that for Applejack, a gift that would mean so much to her…" "But what? AJ's not interested in jewels." "It doesn't have to be a jewel, but something equal to a jewel, like gold or silver-" "Gold! That's it!" "Oh, are you going to find gold coins for her to spend on the farm?" "Even better!" he jumps off the couch, "I going to get her a gold apple!" he started running out of the cottage all excited now. "Oh…" she said before she could wrap her head around it, "What?!" and ran after him as he said. "Princess Celestia has a tree with golden apples! I know! I've seen it in Canterlot!" "Oh, goodness! That's incredible! But will Celestia let you take one of them?" "Once I tell her it's a gift for a special pony, she will!" "The next train for Canterlot leaves in ten minutes! Can we make it?" He then jumped on her back, "If you fly us there!" Fluttershy spread her wings as she concentrated on how it important it was for her friend to find happiness with the mare he desired. She went at a speed that would rival Rainbow Dash as she zipped past Twilight's castle where the princess and her student, Starlight Glimmer was reading on her balcony and when a yellow blur zoomed past them causing a wind to flip their pages, making them both gawk. "Was that…?" Twilight started to ask Starlight before brushing it off, "Nah, not likely…" she went back to her book. Pinkie was skipping and humming along in town when her Pinkie sense went off and she quickly ducked. A yellow blur zoomed past and Pinkie looked up in surprise. "Wow, don't see that every day. Must be something important for Fluttershy to go that fast like some pony trying to confess their deepest feelings to someone they really like." she took out her wallet full of pictures and found the one of Cheese Sandwich while sighing lovingly, "Like me with Cheese…" she ended up glancing at the picture for awhile. Rarity was busy hanging her laundry when a blur caused her clothes to fall and she gapped at where the blur went. "That wasn't… that couldn't be…" she shook her head figuring she was just seeing things. Rainbow was resting on a cloud when something zoomed past her and caused her to wake up with a startle as she held her head, stating, "Whoa, what a crazy dream. Fluttershy was flying as fast as me!" she wiped her brow, "Good thing it was all a dream…" and she went back to sleep. Applejack was in the barn while Discord was waiting outside, telling her, "Come on, AJ, come out and show me your new look!" "No!" her voice went through the door. "Now, Applejack… How am I supposed to help you impress Spike if you won't come out of there?!" There was a sigh before the barn door slowly opened. The cowgirl that usually wore a Stetson hat walked out wearing long purple silk gloves on her hooves to go with her red glittering sequin dress while her mane was combed over her right eye and she had make-up on her face with bright red lipstick colored on her lips. "This is ridiculous!" she proclaimed, "Not even Rarity would wear something like this or put this much gunk on her face!" "All the more reason you'll be able to impress him! It'll show you are not like Rarity but are still gorgeous!" "This is not me in the slightest! I don't like dressing up that much! He'll know I'm not being myself!" Suddenly a blur passed them by causing the pony and spirit to gape. "Discord… was that…?" "It most certainly was…" was all he could utter before his heart fluttered and he floated up feeling giddy, "Fluttershy, my dearest, you never cease to amaze me!"