"Is that cloud... pink?" Sapphire asked as she stopped in the middle of the hallway on her morning route to the dining room. It had been two days since the gala, where Sapphire was surprised at the series of events that occurred to ruin the gala, though it was mostly due to the fact that the Elements were the cause of the events. Thankfully, Sapphire didn't have to do anything in regards to clean up, with the exception of cleaning up the buffet table since all the nobles had fled the castle. The next day was spent with Celestia being busy with damage control, leaving Cadance to aid Sapphire on her princess studies. Though today, Sapphire was expecting another boring day of princess stuff till she saw a pink cloud floating by in the sky.
Looking around, Sapphire saw a pegasus guard nearby, prompting her to ask, "Hello? Have you ever seen pink clouds before?"
Blinking in confusion at the question, the guard looked out the window only to become more confused at what he saw.
"Umm... I don't think clouds are ever pink, your majesty... Excuse me princess, I'm going to go find the captain," the guard said before jumping into the air to fly off.
"...Well, that happened..." Sapphire muttered before looking out the window again, where she saw even more pink clouds in the sky than before. "Weird..."
"Oh, I myself find it quite lovely," said an unfamiliar male voice from right above Sapphire, causing her to jump to the side as she let out a cry of shock.
Looking up at the source of the voice, Sapphire's eyes widened as she saw what she thought was a creature made out of mismatched pieces of different animals. Sapphire could recognize that the being had a lion’s paw and an eagle claw, along with other parts that she didn't recognize. The creature then started grinning at her, to which Sapphire asked the only question that came to her mind, "What the buck are you?"
Rearing its head back in surprise, the creature said, "You haven't heard of me, and yet you're an alicorn? What, is Celestia turning ponies that crawled out from under a rock into alicorns?" Then the creature started floating into the air as he, which Sapphire assumed to be a he since a masculine voice was coming from it, laughed at Sapphire.
Frowning, Sapphire replied, "No, but do forgive me for only having a few months for my education," her voice thick with sarcasm that caused Discord to pause in his laughing fit.
Giving her an incredulous look, Discord countered, "Really? Do you expect me to believe something like that? I mean, it would be hilarious for Equestria to be ruled by an alicorn that is actually stupid, but even that is too far-fetched for me to believe." As Sapphire became offended by Discord's insult, she opened her mouth to make a retort, only for Discord to reach his eagle claw into it as he grabbed onto her tongue and pulled.
"Mhat mar mou moim‽" Sapphire mumbled out in shock as Discord frowned as he stared at Sapphire's mouth.
"This is unusual," Discord stated as he snapped the fingers on his lion's paw before tugging at Sapphire's tongue again. "Why isn't your tongue stretching out?" Discord asked as he let go of Sapphire's tongue.
"Ugh, your claw is disgusting! Don't you ever wash it?" Sapphire complained as she lit her horn up, summoning some water from the air as she ran it over her tongue.
"Of course I don't, there's no point when I could just turn any dirt in my hand into glitter!" Discord answered as he then threw some glitter straight into Sapphire's mouth. Naturally, Sapphire started to cough and hack as she fell to the ground, before stuffing a blob of water into her throat to clean it all out.
Coughing out the now glittery blob, Sapphire glared at Discord as she yelled, "What the buck did you do that for‽"
"Oh, just testing something out," Discord replied before snapping his fingers, summoning a purple door on the nearby wall.
In response to the sudden appearance of the door, Sapphire uttered out the best response she could come up with, "Bwah?" as she looked at the door in utter confusion.
"Hmm... maybe there is some truth in your claim," Discord said as he kicked the door open. Then, another snap of his claws summoned a spatula that he used to flip a still shocked Sapphire into the open door.
"What the buck are y—" Sapphire screamed as she tried to stop her sudden flight after she passed through the door. She quickly tried to turn around and fly back out, only for Discord to shut the door, resulting in a resounding thud as her face hit the wooden frame.
"I never get tired of that gag," Discord chuckled to himself as he snapped his fingers, causing the door to disappear. Cracking his claws, Discord made a mock copy of a pair of binoculars with his claws, commenting, "Ah, it seems Celestia has brought some ponies into the palace. It's time for my spectacular entrance!"
"Ow ow ow... buck, why did he had to do that," Sapphire said as she rubbed her nose, which she smashed into the door as it closed shut on her. "Next time I see that je—what... the... buck!" Sapphire stated as she saw the door disappear, only to reveal that she was floating in some kind of void where the sky was just an ever-shifting mesh of all the known colors, and maybe a few that no mortal had ever seen before. It was then that Sapphire noticed that she was just floating around, causing her to yelp as she started to flap her wings. This only led to her spinning about in the middle of the air, leading to her yelping in surprise until a claw stopped her spinning.
"I leave you alone for two minutes, and you're already freaking out. I guess you need a foalsitter then," Discord commented as he snapped his fingers, causing a bib and a pacifier to appear on Sapphire.
Blinking for a moment, Sapphire spat out the pacifier and tore off the bib while asking, "What the buck are you?"
"I, my dear alicorn, am Discord. I am the spirit of disharmony, the god of chaos, the master of mayhem, the mayor of Downsideup Town, and the most handsome draconequus you'll ever see!" Discord exclaimed as wiggled his eyebrows at Sapphire, causing her to cringe in disgust.
"You... you got to be kidding, right?" Sapphire said as she tried to shuffle away from the weird being in front of her until she remembered that she was in a void without any surface for her to shuffle on. That was when she lit her horn up as she said, "You better send me back be—there's no water here‽"
"Of course there's no water, cause I find it incredibly boring. Chocolate milk?" Discord answered as he held up a glass of chocolate milk.
"Why thank you," Sapphire responded as she grabbed the glass and started to drink it until she paused when it was half empty. Lowering the glass ever so slowly as Discord just flashed her a wide smile, Sapphire said, "Okay... ignoring what I just did... what do you want with me?"
"Oh, it's quite simple really, I want to figure out why my magic isn't directly working on you," Discord said, suddenly dressed in a doctor's uniform as he flashed a flashlight into one of Sapphire's ears as he held it up with one of his claws.
Flicking her ear to knock the claw off, Sapphire asked, "What do you mean, your magic didn't work on me? What are you trying t—" until Discord shoved a thermometer into her mouth while looking at a watch on his wrist.
"Another simple question with a simple, and boring answer too. I can change anything and anyone with a snap of my fingers, yet when I tried to stretch your tongue till it was ten feet tall so I can see if you were lying to me, I only end up tugging it for a brief moment," Discord answered before her shoved Sapphire into a metal box with a dark glass window on the side.
"Wait, you were going to pu—hey, stop that! T-t-that tickles!" Sapphire said as she resisted the urge to giggle after Discord kicked the side of the box, causing an x-ray of her bones to appear on it.
"Hmm... no oddities, or perhaps normalities. If that’s the case, what could it possibly be?" Discord mused out loud as Sapphire found herself on a stool. Curling around Sapphire that she was getting disturbed by how close he is, Discord pulled out the thermometer before stuffing it up one of his noses. As Sapphire responded to that with a disgustful wince, Discord commented, "Temperature is normal, no sign of sickness, so just what is going here?"
"That's the question I've been asking myself when you first appeared," Sapphire replied, still unaware of the threat that Discord truly presented to her.
"Yes, but your questions are meaningless and pointless. Just like there is no point in trying to study and figure out what chaos is, since not even I can fully understand it, hence why I don't bother in the first place," Discord said as he pulled out a pair of paper glasses that had a red plastic lens in one slot and a blue one in the other out from Sapphire's ears. Putting them on, Discord said, "Ah there we... go... oh my."
Still confused about the entire situation, yet annoyed, Sapphire asked, "What is it? Going to pull a hat out of my ear now?" as she glared at Discord. However, upon spotting the look of concern on Discord's face, Sapphire's glare faded into a look of even more confusion as she then asked, "Hey, what is it? What's going on?"
Blinking like he was in a trance, Discord shook his head around before giving Sapphire a somber look, saying, "Something that isn't normal. Or shouldn't be real in the first place."
"What are you talking about?" Sapphire replied, tilting her head as she was starting to feel like she was in a wild goose chase, even if she didn't truly understand why that saying existed in the first place.
"What I'm talking about is this chaotic aura that is all around you. It's what's causing my magic to simply fail if I apply it directly to you," Discord answered as he pulled on his goatee.
"Wait, there’s a chaotic aura on me?" Sapphire asked, prompting Discord to roll his eyes at her.
"Yes, there is an aura composed of some kind of chaos magic around you. Though, it's much more volatile and destructive in its nature. Which mind you is far from different from mine since I don't favor destruction, I instead just favor madness!" Discord explained before several giant party poppers went off in all directions at Sapphire. As Sapphire was pulling off the streamers and confetti the poppers had fired off onto her, she felt a tapping on her mane, only to see that Discord was patting her head. "Don't worry Miss Whiny Blue Alicorn that needs to go back to foal school, your pal Discord isn't going to bother you like the rest of the other ponies. I think you’ve had enough."
"Just what is all this nonsen—don't you dare snap those fingers!" Sapphire replied, as her annoyance turned into concern as Discord snapped his claws again, causing a hole to appear below Sapphire. "Oh buck!" Sapphire cried out as she actually felled into the hole, her limbs flailing about as she looked up to see a smiling Discord waving her goodbye.
"Nice talking to you Miss Bluey, I hope we can have another conversation soon!" Discord stated before zipping the hole up, causing Sapphire to scream in anger until she landed on something soft and sticky.
"Ooff... that little pain in the flanks, I'm go—why is the ground so soft and sticky?" Sapphire asked as she looked around in the pitch black darkness she was in. That is, until the lights finally came on, causing her to shield her eyes as they adjusted to the light before they widened at the sight before her. For Sapphire was in a well-lit room packed with all sorts of cakes, ranging from wedding cakes to the modest cupcake. As Sapphire was about to lose the urge to not consume all the sweets in the room she was in, she noticed that there was a card on the wedding cake that said, 'Enjoy your stay at the Discord's hotel, where you can eat all the cake you could ever dream of!'
Looking around at all the pastries around her, Sapphire licked her lips as she admitted, "Well... maybe that guy wasn't all that bad after all," before she dove into the wedding cake with reckless abandon.