Chapter 01: Tea & Revelations...
Discord, The Spirit Of Chaos, was sitting down at a table, and sipping noiselessly from a pink teacup and taking a bite of a warm scone that his first friend made.
They always had tea on Thursdays, ever since his reformation.
His friend was sitting across from him, her pink mane covering one eye, making him have the urge to sweep it back, to uncover the beauty of Fluttershy’s face.
Don’t get him wrong, but Discord always thought that Fluttershy was always beautiful as Celestia and Luna…
“ Would you like some more tea, Discord?” The butterscotch yellow pegasus asked, a sweet smile on her face.
Discord grinned back, replying, “ Well, don’t mind if I do.” He then snapped his fingers.
The large blue teapot in the middle of the table floated upwards and poured the calming liquid into the teacup.
Albeit, upside down…
After the teacup was full, Discord noticed that Fluttershy was watching him with a look that made Discord feel wary, not even the Elements of Harmony could do that…
Then she spoke, “ Discord…”
The Draconequus blinked and grabbed the full teapot, setting it down where it was before, and asked, albeit hesitantly,
“ Yes Fluttershy?”
The butterscotch yellow pegasus seemed to contemplate her words very carefully, making Discord raise an eyebrow, despite his growing dread hitting his stomach.
She took a breath and asked, her normally adorable shyness replaced by confidence and seriousness, “ What made you like you were? Before your imprisonment a thousand years ago?”
Discord’s entire snakelike body stiffened, his red irises shrunk to pinpricks at the question. Even the random things that were floating around froze in mid air.
Fluttershy saw that and smiled at him, “ You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to… I’m just curious about why you were all bad before we met.”
Discord seemed to think something over, his face blank, which made Fluttershy even more nervous.
Then he sighed, an expression of resignation came upon his face not like the one when he became imprisoned in stone for a thousand years after his reign of Chaos all those years ago,
“ Do you wanna know, Dear Flutters?...”
Then an idea hit him, then he smiled tiredly, asking,
“ Fluttershy, do you want me to get our friends before I tell the story? They deserve to hear it after all they’ve done for me?”
Fluttershy tilted her head a bit to the side, and was concerned that whatever Discord was hiding must truly be important.
Then she nodded, and the answer to that was a snap of a talon and a bright light filled the room, then,
“ What in tarnation?!”
“ AAHH!!”
“WHEEE!!!”
“ GAAHH!!!”
“ DISCORD!!! Explain Yourself!”
The voices became material to make out five other ponies, two Earth Ponies, another Pegasus, a Unicorn, and one Alicorn Princess.
Said Alicorn Princess was glaring at him with accusation in her eyes, her face stern and demanding an explanation.
Discord merely raised an eyebrow and a bored expression was thrown back at her.
Almost literally, but they didn’t need to be traumatised at the moment…
Twilight Sparkle, Alicorn Princess of Friendship, newest and youngest of the four Alicorns in existence, and Element of Magic, was glaring at him once more, saying, “ Discord....”
The Draconequus in question merely sighed, “ I guess I can’t hold it in any longer…” he muttered to himself, but he knew they could clearly hear him.
“ Hold ‘what’ in?” Said an orange earth pony with a blonde mane and stetson, her honest eyes staring into his chaotic ones, searching for a reason that Discord might’ve kept something dangerous a secret from them.
It wouldn’t be the first time after all…
Discord stared back, then at the other ponies gathered in the living room staring back at him with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion.
He snapped his fingers and conjured a small chair, one that was different than any other.
It was a normal chair. There was no decoration on it, it wasn’t even floating!
I think I’ll name this chair Ron for now. He thought to himself as he began his story,
“ Once Upon A Time, There Was A Boy Named Harry Potter…”
A few hours later because Discord took the time to give details of the beatings he used to get from Uncle Vernon when he was Harry, there were tears of sadness and some were expression outrage at his previous life’s Relatives, but Discord didn’t feel much about those monsters that he grew up with.
That part of Harry Potter was dead and long gone…
“That is the end of my story…”
Discord looked down, a part of him that was suppressed ever since he came here came back to the surface, a mixture between hope of acceptance and resignation of rejection to be part of pony society.
His musings were shattered as he felt somepony wrap their hooves around his torso, and he saw lavender.
Twilight squeezed Discord in reassurance, tears falling down her cheeks, her voice wibbly wobbly,
“ How can… How can anypony do that to someone so young?” She sobbed out.
Discord’s body was frozen ever since Twilight hugged him, his arms up in the air a bit, not knowing what to do.
At any other time, somepony would’ve laughed at his put out expression…
This was not that time…
Discord slowly relaxed, and wrapped his arms around Twilight’s barrel gently, being careful of her twitching wings as he returned the hug.
They were joined by the others, who had tears threatening to fall, including Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, who were looking ready to murder somepony.
After a few minutes, no one said anything, just enjoying the moment of comfort the six mares are providing from the Draconequus, who had tears, normal tears, threatening to fall at the feeling of finally having what might be…
...A Family…