(Bitter)sweet Release

by Master Lyra


Left Fork

“Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey, and loosey is a lot better than tighty!”

You Discord starts walking down the left path, not worried about a thing. He can always turn bac-

Hedges pop in behind him, blocking any back-tracking. Discord is a little more fearful now.

I’ll be fine… right? Celestia wouldn’t do… nah. She’s too uptight for things like that.

Discord hears a far-away sound.

Was that a laugh?!

Discord hesitantly proceeds forward, his back slightly hunched over. Then he hears another, closer laugh. This laugh sounds more child-like, and frankly more disturbing.

I swear I heard it now.

He slowly walks forward, the only way he can go. The laughs become more frequent, and more threatening.

Discord eventually comes to a door. The laughs seem to come from inside. Shaking, Discord grabs ahold of the knob and slowly turns it. He pulls the door open and very reluctantly goes inside the dark and cold room that is somehow there.

“Hello? Is anypony in here?”

There is no response; just Discord’s rapid breathing. He feels around for a light switch. He feels one and flips it to reveal…

A small foal, with a happy look on its face.

Discord lets out a breath and immediately feels stupid for thinking it would be anything else.

“Aww… it’s kinda cute!”

He picks up the foal, and it giggles happily in his arms.

“I think I’ll name you Cha-“

“RRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAWR!!!”
The foal turns into a giant, fire-breathing, face-eating, scary looking, and all together ooky shadow demon with red piercing eyes.

“… I should have gone right.”


“Ugh… well that sucked…”

A beaten up Discord walks out of the room, covered in injuries of all kinds.

“Come, Chaos.”

The shadow demon follows behind Discord, its tongue lolling out happily.

Celestia facehooves, and makes the demon disappear.

Discord grumbles.
>No, this isn't a Choose Your Own Adventure story. That's copying silly.