Life is All a Dream

by Mylittleponyfan


The Nightmare

It is nighttime in Ponyville. The moon is out and the stars are shining bright. Fluttershy is running through the Everfree Forest, panting heavily. She is in a panic as somepony has been chasing her for a while now. She looks back and is extremely terrified, fearing for her safety and, most importantly, her life. She keeps running until she finally stops at a dead end deep in the woods. She turns around to see an evil-looking Discord approaching her slowly with a sly grin and a crazed look in his eyes.

"Discord! What are you doing?! Discord! Discord, you're scaring me!", says Fluttershy.

"Hey, missy! I do not like you!", Discord said in an extremely mean tone. Fluttershy is devastated that Discord dare say such a thing to her. She could have sworn he had liked her this whole time, ever since that day when she first showed him kindness and the true meaning of friendship. After all those times they spent together with each other, such as having Tuesday tea parties with him or just simply hanging out with him in general, how could he of all people say such bad, horrible, mean things to her? Not to mention right straight at her face and before her very eyes without any kind of hesitation at all?

"What? How could you say that? You're my best friend!", Fluttershy exclaimed.

"No, I am not! I fibbed!" Discord grins evilly in sadistic glee that he is now telling off Fluttershy and hurting her feelings. Fluttershy is severely crushed by these words, having always thought of Discord as her true and loyal best friend, albeit his mischievous nature and love of chaos.

"Oh, Discord! Please! You like me! We're friends!", Fluttershy tells him, insisting that Discord does not hate her. It was undoubtedly the worst possible thing Fluttershy had ever heard in her entire life, especially from the very draconequus that she had befriended years ago. Just then, Discord begins to grow larger and larger, frightening Fluttershy and all the while grinning widely with malice.

"Fluttercry," he sadistically called her, "I never, ever liked you! Never! It was all just a big trick!". Fluttershy becomes shocked, completely saddened, devastated, and horrified. "What?!" Tears start welling up inside of her eyes as flashes of her friendship with him and all of those times with each other flash before her very eyes, remembering Discord from the day they had first met (when Discord was technically not exactly their friend yet at the time) to when she and her best friends turned him to stone to punish him for his chaotic ruin to Equestria, to releasing him from his stone imprisonment less than a couple years later, to trying to get him to behave himself after he had revealed that he heard Celestia talking about making him behave through stone as being frozen in the state did not make him lack hearing or seeing, to trying to get her best friends to trust him and listen to him and to give him a chance, to introducing him to the true meaning of friendship and love, to having their usual activities of having tea parties, playing, and talking, to pretty much everything about him. She had always fun with him, following his realization of being a much better person. So according to what Discord is saying now, all of those times have really meant nothing at all in the very end? She guesses that since he is saying this to her now, he probably never really was affected by friendship and love in general after all as she had previously thought. Were her best friends right about Discord being an unchangeable jerk monster who would rather relish in mischief, chaos, and destruction rather than accept her as his only, first, real best friend?

"I do not like playing with you or even coming to your house! It is boring! You are just a pathetic, stupid crybaby of a pony!", Discord insulted her. Fluttershy is immensely hurt by Discord's words and could not believe he had just called her a crybaby of a pony.

Discord continues his rant at Fluttershy, "Why would a chaotic being like me even bother to want to be best friends with a pony?!" Fluttershy begins to cry as Discord taunts her in a sing-song voice, "I do not like you! I do not like you! I DO NOT LIKE YOU!!!" Fluttershy is literally in a puddle of tears by now with tear-stained eyes as Discord is shouting at her.

Suddenly, Fluttershy is startled awake. "No!" Fluttershy begins to calm down as she looks around her room. Thankfully, the whole thing had turned out to be just a silly nightmare. Angel comes hopping into the room.

"Angel! Oh, my goodness. That was so scary," she said, letting out a sigh. Fluttershy is relieved that Angel is by her side to comfort her during a time like this. "But at least it was all just a dream."

Relieved, Fluttershy lays back down on her bed. She is so glad the entire ordeal is over and done with. Now she knows that Discord would never be rude or mean to her in any way, shape, or form as she is his very best friend, no matter what anypony in the entire universe says, whether it be her best friends, her parents, her brother, or anypony in general at all. However, she soon opens her eyes and begins to wonder if Discord being her best friend is actually a fact.

"But... what if part of it was true?", Fluttershy asks herself out loud, beginning to have her doubts. "What if Discord really doesn't like me like I thought he did?"

Horrified and believing Discord not liking her to be true after all, Fluttershy begins to cry as Angel hops up onto the bed to comfort Fluttershy. As she continues to cry, she wraps her hooves around Angel into a big hug as Angel calmly pats Fluttershy on her hooves.