Through the Mirror
Chapter 5
Meeting Discord
A few minutes later, the girls had seen a lot of strange things, but what they saw were quite a bit helpful to learn about this world. There was no magic in this world, the building they were in was not a castle, but a school, the creatures were called humans from what they had heard, and that they were familiar yet unfamiliar things about everything and everyone.
Soon, the girls headed outside in the school yard. There were tall metal bleachers on one side of a soccer field, and luckily for them, there was no one there. They all sat down on the benches.
"This is just getting weird." Rainbow Dash said. "It's like this is Equestria, yet at the same time, it isn't."
"I'm with ya there, Rainbow." Applejack agreed.
"How are we supposed to blend in if we act so strange, as if we don't know what we are doing?" Rarity asked.
"We can observe and learn from them." Twilight suggested. "Rainbow's right. This is like Equestria, and at the same time, it's not. But, what we can do is just be us and learn how to appear human."
With that, she started as she walked around them, looking at the humans in the distance.
Twilight: Whatever you do,
I'll do it too.
Show me everything
And tell me how.
You know me something,
And yet nothing to me.
I can see there is too much to learn.
It's all so close,
And yet so far.
We see ourselves
As how they see us.
But I just know
There's something bigger out there.
The girls smiled as they began to sing along with their friend, observing that some humans show off to others, some hold hands, and that they just act as they want. It was just like the ponies back in Equestria, so, it couldn't be that different.
All: I want to know, can you show me?
I want to know about these strangers like me.
Tell me more, please show me.
Something's familiar
About the strangers like me.
Every gesture,
Every move that they make,
Makes it seem so strange than ever before.
Why do I have this growing need to just be me?
There are some emotions that I never knew.
Some for this world far beyond our place.
Beyond the trees, above the clouds;
I see before me a new horizon.
I want to know, can you show me?
I want to know about these strangers like me.
Tell me more, please show me.
Something is familiar
About the strangers like me.
As they looked around the school yard, they felt a strange sense of comfort. This part of this new world made them feel the most at home, especially when they laid their eyes on the statue that served as the portal back to Equestria.
Fluttershy: Come with me now
To see our world,
Where there's beauty beyond your dreams.
Can you feel the things I feel right now with you?
Applejack looked around her, relishing in the feeling she was feeling.
Applejack: Take my hand.
There's a world we need to know.
All: I want to know, can you show me?
I want to know about the strangers like me.
Tell me more, please show me.
Something is familiar
About the strangers like me.
I want to know.
"Thanks, Twilight." Rainbow said. "I guess we really needed that."
Twilight smiled. "No problem. Now, let's head back inside."
The girls nodded, and they all went back inside the school.
After a couple of minutes wandering around, the girls heard something. Using their new ears, they listened to the conversation.
"Well, sorry!" A male voice said. "I just saw it on the ground, and I thought I should give it to her. How was I supposed to know that you dropped it?"
The girls looked around a corner and saw that there was a human boy arguing with a human girl.
"Well, I did!" The girl snapped back. "And I was just about to get it until you swooped in and ruined everything!"
The girls weren't really listening to who was speaking because the guy she was arguing with seemed really familiar. He had wild dark hair, gray skin, and what was really mind-blowing was that he had red eyes with yellow sclera. He wore a brown and yellow shirt, brown pants, and green shoes.
"You shouldn't pick up things that don't belong to you." The girl went on.
"Well, it doesn't belong to you, either." The boy muttered under his breath. But, the girl heard it.
"Excuse me?!" She demanded, slamming her hands against the lockers.
The boy flinched, showing a minor break in his snarky attitude. But, he still glared at her, not saying a word.
"That's what I thought. It's as good as mine, and you know it. You really are pathetic!" The girl continued to insult him, making him glare at her more fiercely and the girls clenched their teeth at the scene in front of them. "It's no wonder that you're a freak."
That just about did it for the girls. "How dare you speak to him that way?!" Twilight said, standing her ground, along with her friends by her side, crossing their arms in anger.
The girl sharply turned to them. She had pale amber skin, wavy red and yellow striped hair, and familiar sinister aqua turquoise eyes. She wore a purple shirt with a familiar red and orange sun on it under a black leather jacket, an orange skirt with a purple and yellow stripe, and tall black boots with purple splotches.
"What did you say?" She asked, not believing what was just said to her. The other students that were seeing this backed away, not wanting to get any closer if this gets ugly.
"She said, 'how dare you speak to him that way'?" Fluttershy repeated as she felt her confidence boost when alongside her friends. Twilight nodded, glaring at her, and the other girls copied her.
The girl had a strange look of confusion when she saw the Mane 5 beside their friend, but then realized that she was outnumbered when she turned her attention back to Twilight. Then, a smirk appeared on her face.
"You must be new here." She said to Twilight, roughly pushing her face up with her hand and started to walk away. "I can speak to anyone any way I want."
A student was partially hiding in his locker, and when she glared at him, he slammed it closed, and then she walked away, smirking.
Applejack huffed with disgust. "What is her problem?" She asked.
"Geez, talk about wicked." Rainbow Dash added.
Then, the boy looked over at the girls, specifically Twilight and Fluttershy.
"Did I hit my head or did you two just do that?" He asked.
"Well, we couldn't just stand there." Twilight pointed out.
"Well, it's just that almost no one stands up to Sunset Shimmer." He said.
"Sunset Shimmer?" Twilight asked, turning to where Sunset had walked away and disappeared. The students breathed a sigh of relief once she was out of sight.
"That is who we are looking for?" Pinkie asked quietly to Rarity. She only shrugged, saying "It seems so."
"You've heard of her?" The boy asked Twilight.
"Sort of." Twilight answered.
"And I must've hit my head because the five of you are actually together." He said to the Mane 5.
They all raised their eyebrows. "Say what now?" Rainbow Dash asked, not understanding.
"Uh, you five can't stand each other, much less be around each other?" The boy asked, saying that it was obvious. But the girls were still confused.
The boy raised his own brow, but then decided to drop the subject and turned his attention back to Twilight. "I don't think I've seen you around before. Did you just transfer to Canterlot High from another school?" He asked.
"Um..." Twilight trailed off, but then decided to go with that story. "Yes, another school. My name's Twilight." She introduced.
The girls wanted to introduce themselves, but it seems that he knows who they are, so they just kept quiet.
"Pleasure to meet you, Twilight." The boy said, taking her hand, making her uncomfortable and she swiped her hand back. "I'm Discord."
The Mane 6 froze in shock. No wonder he looked familiar! "Discord?" Twilight asked.
"I know, right?" He asked with a roll with his eyes. "Not the greatest name." Discord then turned to Fluttershy. "What are you doing here so early?"
"Uh, what do you mean?" She asked.
"The semester transfer trip to Manehattan, and you got stuck with going with them?" He gestured to the other four girls, who weren't so sure if they should be insulted by what he said.
"Um..." Fluttershy trailed off, glancing to the girls for some help, but instead they all shrugged. "Well, we made up, thanks to Twilight here." She answered.
"Yeah." Twilight agreed, going along with the story. "And then, they decided to come back for a couple of days, and by luck, they came to visit today, since I'm new."
The girls all nodded, hoping that Discord would buy it. Luckily, he did.
"I see." He said.
Twilight then remembered something. "Sunset Shimmer said that you picked up something." She said. "Something that belonged to her. It wasn't a crown, was it?"
"Yes." Discord answered, slightly surprised that she knew. "But, how did you know that?"
"Eh, lucky guess?" Twilight shrugged nervously. "Do you still have it?" She asked.
The other girls watched with bated breaths. If he did, then they could all just go home. But, to their disappointment, he shook his head.
"But, you know what happened to it?" Fluttershy asked him.
Discord nodded. "This morning, I was out handing your flyers for the animal shelter like we do every Wednesday. How you had managed to convince me to help, I still don't know. But anyway, out of nowhere, the crown hit me in the head and then landed on the ground."
The girls knew that that was when the crown came out of the portal from Equestria.
Discord then continued. "I had no idea how it got there, but since I couldn't just leave it there, so I decided to give it to Principal Celestia."
"Principal Celestia?" Twilight asked, sharing a raised eyebrow with the girls. "She's the ruler here?"
Rainbow Dash slammed her palm against her forehead at Twilight's choice of words.
"You can say that." Discord said awkwardly.
"What Twilight meant to say is that she manages this school?" Rarity clarified with a nervous grin.
"Yes, along with Vice Principal Luna." Discord answered.
"Where is she now?" Twilight asked.
"Probably in her office." Discord replied. "Third door on your left."
"Thank you!" Twilight said as she and the girls dashed off. "Though I never thought I would say that to him." She muttered to her friends once he was out of earshot.
"So I guess this was what Princess Celestia meant by she not wantin' us to come with you here in the first place." Applejack said. "That Discord fellow reminds us of him back in Equestria, but he isn't really the Lord of Chaos here."
"And he seems to know us, but we don't know him." Pinkie added.
"Well, let's see how this Principal Celestia is like." Rainbow said. "Hopefully, she is like the Princess back home."