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// Discord's Discomfort 
// Story: The Masked Human of Ponyville 
// by John Rim 
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After the party everypony went to their house and said their goodnights, except for Twilight and Masky. She wanted to take him around the town, show him where everything was, and where everypony lived. Discord had remained hidden during the entire party, which killed him to have to do, but he had business to attend to regarding the human child. As Twilight and Masky went around town Discord silently followed, waiting for a good moment to go up to them. He needed for them to be alone and where no one would get suspicious of the baby, because he wanted to make sure that the baby grew up as normal as possible. They arrived at Fluttershy’s cottage and they stopped.
“This is where my friend Fluttershy lives! She’s going to help me take care you you for a while!” Twilight said to Masky, he seemed to enjoy this news for he giggled and made happy noises after she said this. Discord saw this as the perfect time to introduce himself. He snapped his fingers quietly and teleported as a small version of himself into the mailbox and opened the flap. 
“I’m here too you know.” He said, pretending to sound annoyed. 
“Oh, sorry, Masky, this is Discord. He is a magical Draconequus who lives with fluttershy.” She explained to Masky, who was staring at the little Discord.
“It’s rude to stare you know.” Discord said, and he appeared in front of them at full size. Masky looked at both of their hands and held out his with his fingers stretched out. “Yes yes, our hands are similar, but that’s not why I’m here.” He said with fake annoyance, although he thought that it was adorable what the baby was doing, but he would never admit it. 
“Then why are you here? To take him?” Twilight asked, holding Masky with her front hooves.
“No, I’m here to, check something. I can feel a strong force of some sort coming off of him, but exactly what I’m not sure. I need to have a look at him, just to make sure it’s nothing dangerous.” He explained to Twilight while looking at Masky with a claw on his chin.
“Masky can’t be dangerous, he’s just a baby!” Twilight said harshly, taking what he said the wrong way.
“I know that, I’m not saying he’s dangerous now, if he is a harmful creature it will take him awhile to find out that he has power. As a baby he can’t harm, but as an adult he would have the potential.” He tried to explain the best he could. Masky stared at him with awe, while no one would be able to know this for he couldn’t speak, he liked this odd creature, he had hands like his, he looked weird, he had magic, and he seemed funny. Discord seemed to really enjoy the attention he was receiving.
“Oh, I guess I know what you mean. Ok, you can have a look at him, but if he is hurt then you are going back to being a statue!” She said defensively. 
“Yes yes I know, you’ve used that threat on me too many times to count.” He said with boredom. Then he snapped his fingers and Masky was in his paw, he squealed with laughter at the odd feeling of instant transportation, it was new, different, exhilarating. Discord smiled at this, he liked this baby, he seemed to know what a good time was. He gently removed the mask and was shocked when he saw the baby’s cut up face. “Ah! Twilight what did you do to him!” He exclaimed startled.
“It wasn’t me! It was his original father!” Twilight said, hurt that Discord would think she would do such an awful thing to a baby.
“Oh, well still, that’s sad. But we can’t worry on that right now. I need to make sure of something.” Discord said, and he held up the baby to his face, eye to eye, and stared at him, looking into him. Masky laughed in joy at this. Discord stared hard into his eyes, looking deep into his soul, he saw chaos in the child, it was fun but also dangerous. He stopped looking   “I shan’t tell you what I saw for it will give spoilers.” He smiled a nervous yet happy smile at Masky, who returned a smile. “He is alright for the most part.” He said, a hint of nervousness in his voice. Then he teleported Masky back into his carrier.
“What do you mean 'most part'?” Twilight asked, a bit worried.
“I’ll only say this, don't make him angry.” Discord said, mischievousness in his voice.
“What does that mean?” She asked, very worried now.
“Let’s hope you never find out!” He said mischievously, then he made a psychotic laugh and disappeared in a cloud of smoke he summoned. Twilight was worried about this, but she decided to pass it off as Discord just trying to scare her, for now. She giggled at his enjoyment of teleportation. Most ponies didn’t like the feeling of it the first time it happened, but he did seem to enjoy most everything, so she just enjoyed his enjoyment. After she made sure he was secured in his carrier they went back to her castle for rest. However discord did not have sleep on him mind, instead he was thinking about what he saw in the small child. “He could prove a real danger very easily, but I have faith in Twilight. Her and her friends helped me. So she can definitely raise a child to be good.” He said to himself. Then he popped to his bed to sleep. 
Twilight and Masky made it back home and got ready for bed. Masky had his dinner and was put in his crib, then Twilight went straight to her bed. Twilight slept a bit uneasily that night, she couldn't help but wonder what Discord meant by what he said, "What did he mean?" She asked herself, she knew that ponies could get a bit irrational when they get really mad, but why would that be bad? She decided not to think about it any more so she could get some better rest.