//------------------------------// // Love, Bravery, and explosions // Story: Discord, God of Chaos and Love? // by ace1233211 //------------------------------// Ch.3 Love, Bravery, and explosions “what!? Wait. He’s your what?” Twilight asked her happy and bouncing friend. “Like I said, he’s my coltfriend.” Pinky stated happily as she nuzzled Zip’s neck. The pony in question just smiled and laid his head on Pinky’s. He wasn’t a big stallion, but he stood a few inches above Pinky. He was a brown and his mane and tail were ghost white. Twilight couldn’t see his cutie mark because Pinky was practically rubbing the left side of his body as she fawned over him. “How did-? When did you meet? Normally you would have a party for something like this.” Pinky never needed a reason to have a party but this seemed like a good one. “ Oh! I just forgot! You have to hear how we meet. It’s the most spectacular, grandest, most romantic story EVER!” The pink pony ignoring what her friend had said and began her flashback. -Yesterday- The hyper active pink pony made her way through Ponyville making sure that everything was Pinky approved for the festival. “ Candy, popers, music, cupcakes” she held up a pink cupcake and shoved it in her mouth, eating it all in one go. “ yep everything good so fa- ‘GASP!” Pinky spotted a new house on the south end of the town. There were moving ponies making their way in and out of the house carrying various things into the house. “ A new house! Moving ponies! GASP! That means… A NEW FRIEND!!!!” The happy pony shot like a bullet across the street and right to the front door of the new home. “ Well Tom I owe you five bits.” One moving pony said to another. “ I told you. Never underestimate Pinky.” Pinky ignored the movers as they packed up the truck. She knocked on the door and waited with a smile that went literally from ear to ear. As the door opened slightly Pinky wasted no time and began her introduction. “ Hi! My names Pinky Pie and I’m here to welcome you to Ponyville! I just saw the movers putting your things in your new house and I thought to myself, that must be someone new, then I thought I hadn’t seen that house before, and that made me sad because I thought I hadn’t been friends with the last owners.” She made a sad face and drooped her head. Zip had opened the door more, concerned for the now sad looking mare. “But! Then I remembered” her head shot up and her smile covered the bottom half of her face. “ they built this house a month ago. I remember because I was happy to know that someone new was going to move to Ponyville. Now I have two new friends!” Pinky’s smile faded slightly “ That is if you want to be my friend?” “ Sure.” Was all that Zip said. Pinky jumped up with joy. She would have continued but she realized she hadn’t taken a breath senses she said hi. Taking some quick breaths Pinky let the air reach her brain. Zip let out a chuckle and offered Pinky a drink. Pinky agreed in an instant earning another chuckle from Zip. He lead her inside and left her in the main room while he went in to the kitchen to fetch something to drink. Pinky began to look around noticing the many nicknacks and photos. One photo on the wall caught her attention. It was a picture of a young Zip and two happy looking Clowns on ether side of him. Pinky was examining the picture when Zip walked back into the room, holding two glasses on a tray, both were filled with a brown liquid. “ here something I found on my front door last week. It’s really good with cupcakes.” At the sound of the word cupcakes Pinky shot at Zip getting centimeters from his face. “ YOU LIKE CUPCAKES?!!!!?!!???!!?!!?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?” “ love’em” he said not even flinching when Pinky didn’t move away from his face. “ So… drink?” Zip held a glass between them getting some distance from Pinky. Pinky having taken an interest in this new pony didn’t look at what was in the glass before taking it and rasing it to her lips. “ thanks” Just as she was about to take a sip Pinky saw something out of the corner of her eye. “ OH MY GOSH!!!!” Pinky shoved the glass into Zip’s hooves and ran over to the other side of the room. She stopped and stared up at a very large book shelf filled with a verity of novels. “ I was right they’re all by Silent Mime. YOU READ SILENT MIME TOO!!” Pinky turned to Zip with a mix of happy, confused, and happy. “But that’s way too many books. I have all the ones that came out and I don’t have enough to fill up my book shelf.” Pinky was reading some of the titles. “ this one here, I don’t have this one, or this one. How do you have all of these they aren’t released yet?” Pinky now looked accusingly at the stallion. “ Did you steal them from the writer?” She changed to a look of shock. “ Do you know Silent Mime? Oh! What’s he like? Does he like parties? Oh what am I saying, every pony likes partys. But wait, how did you meet him? Does he really come up with his own work? OH wait where does he live? Oh what’s his favorite color? Wh-“ Zip put a hoof on Pinky’s mouth to stop the onslaught of questions. Pinky continued to finish her last question before stopping. “ First let me say you have a gift with words. Second I love parties. Third my favorite color is pink.” Zip gave a happy and maybe a little lustful look at the now speechless mare. “ You mean your-? And you wrote-? So that means” Pinky looked down at her hooves. For the first in her life she was tongue tied. Her cheeks started to turn red as she could feel the embarrassment burn across her face. This pony was her idol, every story he wrote had a happy ending and always a party. The hero always survived and the jokes he wrote were the things that kept her laughing in the darkest times. She fell in love with his stories the second she started reading them and now the one and only author of her dreams was standing right in front of her. She couldn’t believe she was even in the same room as him let alone talking to him. “ So um, I sorta had a little, tiny crush on you” Pinky still couldn’t look at him. “I kind of figured that.” Zip put the glasses down and walked closer to Pinky. “ You know I never met a pony that had such a talent for talking before.” With each word and every step Pinky’s heart beat increased. Her breathing became difficult and when he stopped in front of her she looked up and found him inches from her face. “ You do look cute with that shade of red on your face.” Pinky couldn’t think, she couldn’t breath, her legs were shaking. Without any thought (When does Pinky ever think before doing something) She lowered her eye lids and gave the stallion a seductive look. “Hope you taste good.” Pinky whispered before ramming her mussel into Zip’s. locking his lips in hers and sealing him in a long passionate kiss. -end of flashback- “ After that we agreed to date.” Pinky had finished her story and was hopping up and down next to the new pony. “So what do you think Twilight? Greatest story ever right? Right?” Twilight had listened to the entire story but some things just didn’t add up. “ That seems a bit too early to just start dating. I mean you two just meet.” She knew Pinky wasn’t dumb but she rarely thought things through all the way. “ Please be ok with this Twilight. Your one of my best friends, everyone’s my friend but your one of my best ones. I don’t want you to not approve of Zip. He’s really kind, and sweet, and tall, and strong ,and he’s funny ,and can do tricks, and-“ “ Ok ,Ok I get it, you like him a lot.” Twilight looked at Zip accusingly. “ So… you like Pinky?” Zip nodded yes. “ You want to date her?” Zip nodded yes. “ You won’t hurt her?” Zip shook his head no. “ You know I’m the element of magic right? If you hurt Pinky you know what I’ll do to you right?” Zip looked a little worried, can’t blame him when he’s being threatened by one of the six elements. He nodded his head yes. “ Fine, I guess I can be ok with this.” “ YES!! THANK YOU TWILIGHT!!!” Pinky screamed and pulled Twilight in for a big hug. “ Thank you, thank you, thank you!!” letting Twilight go Pinky shot next to Zip. “ Did you hear that? She doesn’t hate you.” Zip smiled at Pinky and let out a small laugh. Twilight noticed something else was off about this pony. “ Pinky, in your flash back Zip spoke, so why haven’t heard him speak yet?” The stallion hadn’t said a word yet and it was bugging Twilight. “ Oh, that? That’s simple. See Zip said he has a phobia of speaking in front of anyone. Even with his parents he can’t say but a few words.” Pinky was back to nuzzling Zip’s neck. “ When he told me, he said that for some reason he can talk to me. He said I’m special.” Zip leaned his head down and locked lips with Pinky for a deep kiss. Twilight felt a little embarrassed for watching. “ So… I’m going to get going. Let you two love birds alone.” As Twilight backed away from Pinky and Zip a piercing roar was heard all over Ponyville. It stopped ponies in their tracks and chilled the blood of the most hardened Ponies. Twilight stood still, locked in place, but her courage took hold and she bolted toward the edge of the Everfree were the roar came from. ‘ why did I have to come to this spot? Why now? Why here?’ Fluttershy mentally cursed her bad luck. She was now in one of the worst situations she had the misfortune to wined up in. Cowering behind a rock, she was trying to hide from a very large and very angry Chimera. She just wanted to go home. Crawl back into bed and wake up from this nightmare. ‘ I had to take a walk. I had to sniff the flowers. Then I had to try and talk to the big sleeping Chimera. I just hope he doesn’t-‘ The Chimera, finding his pray, grabbed hold of the large rock and tossed it over its head. “ Buck.” As the beast raised its giant paw to strike its breakfast Fluttershy was saying her prairs and flashing back over her life. Twilight along with Pinky and several other ponies were running toward the scene but they just weren’t fast enough. Just as the beast was about to bring down its massive paw (Discord was on the edge of his seat watching the whole thing), their came from the sky a loud “DOG PIEAL”. Like a shot out of Pinky’s party canon, a Pegasus slammed into the Chimera. The force of the hit knocked the Chimera to the ground. Quickly recovering and now pissed the beast now took aim at his new pray. The Pegasus was caramel color with blue mane and tail and he was up and ready for the Chimera. “Come on.” The Pegasus tontied the growling animal. “Let’s see what’s yer made of.” The Chimera lunged foreword to tackle its new meal. The pony had been ready for this and instead of standing his ground he went with the Chimera and as the beast grabbed hold of him it hit the ground and rolled. Twilight and Pinky made it to Fluttershy but were lost in what they saw. The Pegasus was holding his own against the beast. They continued to role as the pony kicked and bit the Chimera. The large animal couldn’t keep up with the pony, never able to get a hold of him. After five minutes of brawling the beast had been bested. The pony had the Chimera’s left ear in his mouth. “ Now! Are you going to go back to the forest and hunt there?” The Chimera didn’t move so the pony bit down hard on his ear. The Chimera let out a yelp and shook its head yes. “Good. Now apologies to her” he pointed to Fluttershy. Letting go of his ear, the Chimera grovelled and growled at Fluttershy. “ That’s ok. I woke you up so it was my fault.” The Chimera walked back to the forest slowly after the Pegasus that whooped his ass gave it the ok. “Are you alright Fluttershy? Did the Chimera hit you any were?” Twilight looked her friend over checking for cuts and bruises. “ No, I’m fine. Luckily that pegasus showed up when he did.” Fluttershy looked around for the pony that had saved her life but spotted him of in the distance. “ Wait! Sir!” Fluttershy left her friends and ran after her savior. “ Please slow down. I just want to thank you.” She had now caught up to the caramel pony. “ It was nothin. I always help if I can.” Fluttershy now had a chance to look at this brave pony. His eyes were green and his cutie mark was a wooden chair turned on its side and a cracking whip. She couldn’t help staring at his eyes. They calmed her and made her lose her train of thought. “ If you don’t mind ma’m, I’m going to take my leave now.” His words brought her back to reality. “ Oh, ok. Well I hope I see you around the festival tomorrow.” Fluttershy waved by. “ Me too.” Just as he was turning to walk away a pain in his chest caused him to fall and chough. “ Oh my! Are you ok? You were hurt in the fight weren’t you?” Fluttershy helped the injured pony up. “ I know a lot of first aid and my cottage is nearby. Let me help you there.” “ No, it’s fine. I can take care of my sel-Ah!” He fell in the dirt and began a coughing fit. Wezzing in and out as he struggled for air. “ You are definitely hurt.” Fluttershy pulled the Pony up a second time. “Please I won’t be able to sleep tonight if I leave you like this. Let me help you.” She pleaded with the Pony, her shyness gone when it came to helping those in need. Recovering from his fall and getting a few good breathes, also noticing the yellow pegasus next to him smelled like a field of flowers in spring, he responded to her. “ I guess it wouldn’t hurt to get myself checked out. Just no needles, I have a thing about sharp metal spikes.” Fluttershy grew a big smile across her face and agreed happily. “ Right this way Mr.- um” “Leon, My name is Leon Tamer.” Leon leaned against Fluttershy for support as they walked foreword. “ And your name?” “ Oh..my name is..” Fluttershy just now realized how close this new stallion was. The embarrassment was easy to spot across her face, but she hid underneath her hair. Without looking up from the ground( knew the way home by heart) “ My names Fluttershy” “Sorry, didn’t hear you. What was it?” “Fluttershy” “I’m sorry, I must have hit my head. I still can’t make that out” “Fluttershy.” She didn’t know how she managed that one. “Fluttershy? Hm? Pretty name. “ thanks” “hm?” ‘I guess if she says she’s ok.’ Twilight was on the way back to Ponyville, today was starting to become an annoyance and she had too many things to get done. “ Some exciting stuffs happn’en today” Twilight didn’t take noticed to the white Pony with black mane standing next to her. “ Ya, first there’s Pinky Pie being Pinky Pie. Now a Chimera attack. What elaes could happen?” The Pony next to her just smirked and waited for it to hit. Three, two, one. “hold up.” Twilight turned in mid-step. “What are you doing here?” She pointed to the unicorn that crash into her home this morning. “ I thought you were supposed to be fixing my roof.” “ All done.” Ex smiled and gave look that said ‘ I’m satisfied with myself’ “ That was less than two hours ago. There is no way, even with magic, that you got it done.” “ just don’t believe it” Twilight looked up at what used to be a large hole in her roof was now an extra room. “How in Celestia’s name did you do it?” She looked dumbfounded at her house guest “ Easy, magic” Ex said with an easy going, what was the big deal tone. “But there’s no spell that could grow a tree that quickly. I’ve read every book available about spells. Did you use some kind of potion from Zacora?” “ No. I used magic.” Ex was starting to get annoyed at defending his ways. “ But I told you I read every book and-“ “ Books are the worst when it comes to magic. There isn’t any book that has this spell because I invented it.” Ex took a proud stance. “ That’s impossible. No unicorn, but the best and most experienced can ever invent a spell. So how did somepony like you do it?” Twilight gave a very condescending look to the strange pony. “ If you must know i did it by accident.” Ex turned his nose up at Twilight to give off the sense that he was better. “Accident? How did you invent a spell by accident?” This conversation was getting very confusing. “ I was running some tests on acorns to see if I could make them chewy and I-“ Twilight cut him off their. “ hold on. You wanted to make acorns chewy?” “ no I wanted to turn them into bubblegum, but one step at time. Anyways, I thought that if I pored raw magic into the acorn I could change the molecular structure by controlling the magic that it absorbed.” Twilight was somewhat more surprised. What he was saying was smart and made sense, even if it was completely nuts. (Pun :D) “ but what happened was the seed absorbed the raw magic and fed off of it to grow. The first time it happened I had a tree stuck in the middle of my house.” Ex laughed at the memory. “ so there you have it. New spell and a fixed roof.” “ But that doesn’t make sense.” Twilight argued “ What fun is there in making se-“ BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!! The ground shook and the walls of the library groaned. “ What the hell was that?!” Ex got up off the floor. Twilight looked outside to see if she could see what had happened. She scanned the town until she noticed a tower of smoke coming over the hill. “ Oh no!” Twilight ran out the door with Ex close behind her. They and many other ponies ran off in the direction the smoke was coming from, Sweet Apple Acres.