Spawn of Disharmony
By: KenSES64
Chapter 21: Ponyville Confidential
I was walking out of Quills & Sofas after picking up an order for Twilight when I heard somepony shout “Fire!” and saw two pies flying towards me. I stopped them in midair with my magic. I then noticed who were the ones who threw them at me. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. Not shocking at all. I flipped the pies around and threw them back at them. Pinkie just opened her mouth and swallowed the pie, tin and all. As for the other pie it got Rainbow right in the face.
I walked over to them laughing.
“You two have to do better than that.” I said between laughs.
Rainbow took off the tin and her face was now covered with whip cream. Pinkie and I fell onto our backs laughing. Rainbow then picked up what was left of that pie and...
Squish!
I quickly took the tin off of my face to see Rainbow with the biggest smirk I’ve ever seen.
“What was that about trying harder?” She asked.
“Okay you got me.” I said. “Now I think I should get myself cleaned up before I get these to Twilight.”
“Oh I can help you with that.” Pinkie said before she, with one sweep of her tongue, wiped all the pie fragments off of mine and Rainbow’s faces.
“Pinkie.” I said.
“Yes Sethy?” She asked.
“Please never, ever do that again.”
“Oh, Okie dokie lokie!”
Then Rarity came up to us with a newspaper.
“Hello everypony.” She chirped.
The three of us all gave our different ways to say “Hi Rarity” at the same time.
“What’s with the newspaper?” Rainbow asked.
“This is what I wanted to show you.” She said levitating it over to us.
The three of us started laughing at the picture of the two colts stuck together with chewing gum.
“So what is this?” Rainbow asked.
“Gabby Gums. It’s an article in the Foal Free Press, the newspaper at Sweetie Belle’s school. Now, if you excuse me I still have to show this to the others. Ta, Ta.” Rarity said before walking off.
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During the next week or so the Gabby Gums article became quite popular around town. Personally I didn’t care as much as everypony else, but Rainbow was really into it. So I was often informed about new stories. Once she even dragged me along with her when she wanted to show an article with the rest of the gang, who were all at the spa.
“Hey guys!” Rainbow called, surprising Spike. Who quickly sat up, making the cucumber slices on his eyes fly off and land on Rainbow’s.
“The new Gabby Gums is out. The Great and Powerful Trixie’s secrets revealed.” She said before eating on of the slices of cucumber.
“We already read that one Rainbow Dash. Come on, relax, have a hooficure. It feels amazing.” Rarity said.
“Did you forget who you’re talking to? The day I get a hooficure is the day I turn in my daredevil licences. Besides I haven’t read this Gabby Gums yet.”
“Well do it quietly.” Spike said taking back the cucumber slice on Rainbow’s eye. He was about to try to get the on that Rainbow just ate, but I slapped his claw.
“Owww! What the hay Seth?!” He said.
“Don’t stick your claws in Rainbow’s mouth. I mean how would you feel if you had a girlfriend and I shoved my hoof in her mouth? Besides I don’t know where you claw’s been.” I said to him.
“Well I don’t know where her mouth’s been” He responded with, making Rainbow and I blush a bit. “Also she ate the other cucumber.”
“Get another one.”
He grumbled and did as such.
“I like Gabby Gums too, but don’t you think she can be a little mean?” Twi asked.
“Ease up a bit Twilight. She’s a hoot.” Applejack said.
“Celestia just like us. Gabby Gums doesn’t value anypony’s privacy.”
“Oh lighten up Twilight. It’s nothing, but harmless gossip.” Rarity said.
Pinkie then popped out from under the water of the hot tub with a somehow perfectly dry newspaper. “Yeah Twilight. Listen to this one. Mayor not naturally grey. The Mayor in a mane dying scandal. Who wouldn’t want to read that?”
I raised my hoof.
“I just can’t help, but feel sorry for the ponies features in the columns. They have to be a little embarrassed.” Twi said.
“Are you kidding? You know how awesome it is to get your name in the paper?” Rainbow asked.
“Rainbow why don’t you join in one of these delicious hooficures?” Rarity asked her.
“It’s that good huh?”
Twi nodded.
“Well maybe just one little hoof.” Rainbow said before lying down.
She then freaked out a little bit and said, “Forget it. I don’t like Ponies touching my hooves.”
Which was technically true. During that first month we were dating I jokingly tried tickling the bottom of her hoof, only to end up being kicked in the forehead. I probably had a horseshoe shaped bruise there, but it wasn’t visible thanks to my dark coat. Hey looking like a generic character designed by Rob Liefoal, minus the always closed eyes and oversized shoulder pads, has it’s benefits.
Rainbow landed near the newspaper on the ground and said, “Now I’d love it if Gabby Gums did a story on me.”
“She did one on me.” Spike said, before everypony else surrounded him shouting “What?!”
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Okay remember when I said I didn’t really care about the Gabby Gums articles, well I care now. Well Rainbow did get what she asked for, but probably not in the way she wanted. The article about her was titled “Rainbow Dash: Speed Demon or Super Softy?” So I decided to go talk to Cheerilee about this issue. Hey, nopony messes with my Dashie.
Anyways I made it to the schoolhouse and walked into the classroom that onlypony in it was a magenta mare.
“Oh, good afternoon Seth. What brings you here?” She asked.
“Afternoon Cheerilee. I came to make a complaint.” I told her.
“A complaint?”
“Yes, you see the school newspaper has posted an article of Rainbow, as well as the rest of my friends and they’re really upset over them.”
I placed a copy on her desk and she look through it.
“Oh, I had no idea that they were posting stuff like it.”
“How could you not know? Are you saying that you leave this whole thing unsupervised?”
“Well...yes, but...”
I facehoofed and said, “Whatever, could you just do something about this?”
“Well, if anypony else also complains then yes.”
I started to walk out, but then Cheerilee called, “I’m surprised that you didn’t say anything about the one on you, yet it is ridiculous.”
“One on me?” I asked before levitating the paper to me and reading it aloud. “Seth: Spawn... of... Disharmony......... Oh Buck Me!”
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Well, if I was upset before over the one about Rainbow, I’m really bucking pissed now. And guess who this Gabby Gums really was. The Cutie Mark Crusaders. Thanks to them all of Equestria knows the truth. Also in the past few days I’ve been insulted, kicked out of stores, had rocks thrown at me and also the other day I got a letter from somepony sating that they were going to stab me! I’m not kidding. Thanks to those little brats, somepony threatened to kill me! Because of this I haven’t left the house with out a force field around myself. Thank Celestia I have Rainbow here to comfort me, but I worry about her too. Now everypony thinks she’s dating a monster. I don’t want to lose her because of this... I can’t lose her... I... I can’t live without her.
I told her this and she, as she always does, tackled me onto my back, hugging me. She then said to me, “Seth, I know all of this has been very stressful for you and all, but you and I know you’re not a monster. There’s also no way in Tartarus I’m going to leave you over this. Remember what I told you over a week ago? That some judgmental ponies well never, ever change what we have. Hopefully everypony well see the love we share and accept you for who you are.”
I just stared deeply into those beautiful rose colored eyes and said nothing, but I saw her smile like she knew what I was thinking. Okay if there’s a term stronger than “soul mate” than that’s what I feel for her right now, if not then somepony needs to invent one.
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The Cutie Mark Crusaders made they’re final article as Gabby Gums and apologized for what they did to everypony, but I was still very angry with them over the fact they didn’t keep my secret safe. So we decided to talk with everypony in town.
I was standing with a shield around myself and the others where talking to the townspony telling them that what was said I the article was a lie, but something inside me told me that now that it was out we might as well not cover it up.
“Wait guys!” Called to them, making everypony turn to me. I walked closer to the crowd of ponies and began. “Hello everypony. My name is Setali Depongono le Uova di Disarmonia and that article about me was true. I am the spawn of Discord. Now before you shun me for that let me ask you all some logical questions. Have I ever harmed any of you?”
The crowd replied with several nos.
“Have I done anything to threaten any of you or Equestria?”
More nos.
“Have I shown any treason against the princesses?”
“No.”
“Or loyalty to my creator?”
“Well how are we supposed to know?” asked Lyra.
“The answer is also no. You see thanks to somepony called The Doctor I saw my own creation and do you know what I learned? That I was made out of boredom. That’s right I’m here now for no reason at all. He had no plans for me. Now I don’t know how you would act in this situation, but I was happy because it now all made sense to me. Why I became friends with the wielders or the elements. Why I feel in love with Rainbow Dash. Now despite that one difference between me and the rest of you, I’m just a normal pony, and you hope you can look past this whole Discord thing and see me as that. A normal pony.”
The town was dead silent everypony just stood there. I was so nervous. What were they thinking? Is everything going to go back to normal? Or am I going to be a outcast? Then out of the silence came stomping. Everypony turned to the grey and yellow pegasus stomping her hooves on the ground. Then, my friends join in with her and so after everypony was stomping a cheering.
They really did it. They don’t fear me. That was much easier that you’d think huh? Yet, Ponyville’s been through situations like this before with Zecora and Princess Luna, so maybe this wasn’t too big a stretch.
I lowered the shield and quickly was grabbed into a group hug with Rainbow in the others. So here I am. Everypony knows what I am, but they also know who I am. And the main reason why those are two different things is thanks to the six mares that have me wrapped in their arms. They are really the best friends I could ever ask for.