"This is going to be fun!" Pinkie led Discord through the streets of Ponyville by hoof.
Discord didn't question Pinkie, he was too enticed by the presence of her to care.
Pinkie took Discord to Sugar Cube Corner and pushed him inside. "Wait here, I'll be right back." Pinkie galloped off back into Ponyville.
Discord watched as he saw the pink mare gallop away, he sat down on a chair he found next to the doorway. He only stared at his pony form. 'I don't know why I'm doing this...But I also don't know why I'm not doing this, does that make sense? Good. No, not good.' Discord sighed. 'My power is diminishing, at first I was furious, but now do I even care?' Discord focused his energy to force his glasses into reality and put them on his head. 'Guess I'll just let it play out, perhaps things will get better.' He flicked the glasses over his eyes and laid back with his hooves supporting his head, staring at the ceiling.
Mrs. Cake saw the unfamiliar pony from the counter. "Hello?"
Discord kept staring at the ceiling. "Yes?"
"Are you one of Pinkie's friends?"
Discord instantly felt annoyed, he waved his hoof at Mrs. Cake. 'Begone.'
Mrs. Cake just walked into the kitchen and didn't return.
The moment Mrs. Cake left, a swirling jet black and electric blue portal opened in front of Discord and a guardian of disharmony appeared.
"Master." The guardian bowed.
"Guardian of Agony."
"Master, I advise against thy actions."
"What is there to protest?" Discord said as he flipped up his sunglasses away from his eyes and lifting an eyebrow.
"Thy prowess diminish every second thy are confined within that pitiful form, and only to be adjacent to a wench?"
Discord immediately lost his temper. He focused on the air around Agony and lifted him into the air and then hurling him at the wall in the back of Sugar Cube Corner, and then appeared in front of the stunned pony.
"Prithee not think of me as a weakling?! I should obliterate thy existence as a fief to thine foul words against mine actions." Discord said as he glared intensely at the guardian.
Discord lifted up the guardian physically now. "You will not question mine course of action. I am the god of chaos. Whom, remind you, created you and your brethren." Discord dropped the guardian and took a step back.
"Hie and begone from hither, mark mine anger of thy statement, save wherefore thou durst to beseech of mine halt. Begone before I truly lose mine patience."
The guardian stood up and bowed, quaking in fear. "Y-yes, master. Please accept my sincerest regret."
The guardian was enveloped within the swirling portal once more and was gone.
Pinkie Pie burst through the front door of Sugar Cube Corner. "Alrighty! Lets go!" Pinkie looked across the room, and saw Discord staring at the wall at nothing. "Hello?"
Discord turned around and saw Pinkie, forcing his anger to fade. "Pardon me." Discord walked over to Pinkie with a smile. "Where are we going now?"
Pinkie lead Discord out of Sugar Cube Corner. "Somewhere really fun!"
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The only thing that was visible was a large circular stone tablet, encircled with stone columns that held torches. Twelve swirling portals appeared around the table and the Guardians appeared.
The guardian of Agony banged his hoof on the table. "Our master hath been derailed!"
"You speak heresy?" Said chaos with a disgusted face.
"Surely you jest, Agony? The master is not one to be distracted so easily, even from himself." Confusion said with a slight chuckle at his joke.
Another Guardian talked. "No." He shook his head. "He is pursuing the pink one, can thou not feel his power continue to drain? It is obvious we must intervene."
"Accusation, we must not. He has already threatened me. I do agree with you, but he is our puppeteer, and we must not yank on our own strings." Agony said, shuddering from the event from earlier.
"I witnessed his anger, and I have already constructed a plan to aid the master." Accusation turned to two other guardians. "Fear, Hate, I require your assistance."
The guardian of Fear took off his hood, showing his crystalline eyes and his mane-less head. "You ask me to aid in thy heresy?"
"If this be heresy, then allow the moon itself fall from the majestic night. I only wish to save our master, to save ourselves."
The guardian of Hate spoke next. "I am in full agreement, you have my assistance, Accusation."
Fear stood up on his hind legs in anger."You two have gone mad!" Fear returned to his normal stance and turned to the other guardians. "Have you no loyalty or trust in the master?!"
None of the guardians spoke to respond the guardian of fear.
The guardian of Chaos turned to Accusation. "Can you be sure that there will be no imprints on thy trail?"
Accusation nodded. "Yes, only if all hold thine tongue and those with parts play them respectively."
The guardian of Fear turned to the guardian beside him. "Depression! Please tell me that you are in agreement to this madness!"
The guardian of depression looked at her hooves. "We are a democracy in decision, my choice doth matter at this point, mine action is to follow in result."
The guardian of fear spoke louder to the guardians. "Why all these fires? Why all these gliding ghosts? Why birds and beasts, from quality and not? Why old stallions fool, and foals calculate? Why change from ordnance?! Your natures and performed qualities, turned into a monstrous beast in which heavens gift bestow upon thee, and then turn them into heresy? How could I, Guardian of Fear, name thee alies now? A stallion mightier than myself contain ignorance..." Fear took a deep sigh. "In personal action, yet prodigious grown and fearful, as these strange eruptions are."
Accusation went over and put his hooves on Fear's drooped shoulders. "Fear, you must understand that we have no harm intended towards the master, but to mend him. Your participation is required most of all, do you not wish to cease to exist after the master's ability becomes no more?"
Fear had given hard thought on the subject, only one result has appeared in his thoughts. He finally gave into the logic in which Accusation put so much enthusiasm into. "I will, but please, grant me with no insight on any detail other in which the role I play."
Accusation smiled. "Very good, and we are all agreed?"
All of the guardians nodded, but one was hesitant.
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Pinkie Pie pushed Discord through the library door and he stumbled in the darkness.
Discord tried to squint through the darkness, but his eyes were flared by the sudden rush of light. He tried rubbing his eyes but he was swarmed with ponies on all sides.
"Welcome to Ponyville!" They all yelled.
"Now you have lots of friends! Enjoy the party!" Pinkie said before she disappeared into the crowd of ponies.
Discord tried to follow her, but they had surrounded him, barraging him with questions on where he was from and what he enjoyed doing. Discord wanted to turn them all into mice, but restrained himself and answered the ponies questions, and respond to their hellos as well as he could.
(30 minuets later) Discord was finally free from the ponies as they turned their attention to the party. He had a huge headache from the constant conversations. Discord looked around the library, but no sign of the pink mare.
"Hi!"
Discord turned his head, and saw Pinkie, and became relived of his headache. "Thank you for this delightful party. But I was hoping to ask you something."
Pinkie smiled. "No problem! Whats your question?"
For once in his existence Discord felt nervous. "I would enjoy it if.."
Pinkies eyes grew wide.
"If you were to j-" Discord was cut off by Pinkies friends rushing beside her.
Twilight grabbed Pinkies hoof. "Pinkie! Discord is in Ponyville somewhere!"
"How do you know?" Pinkie said, turning her head in question.
Twilight pointed outside, the noon sky was filled with cotton candy clouds.
Discord saw the clouds and panicked having forgotten about his chaotic aura that effected the area around him.
Pinkie trotted off with her friends, leaving Discord in a mood he was much familiar with ; loneliness. He left the library and made sure nobody was watching as he relinquished the clouds in the sky by raising his hooves upwards and then disappeared.
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(Later that day.)
Pinkie opened the door to her room and saw Gummy sitting on her bed just staring at the ceiling. She vaulted into her bed and Gummy soared into the air and then landed next to Pinkie. Pinkie looked out of her window from her bed and saw the moon was beginning its ascension into the sky. She reached over and turned on her lamp and then lifted up her pillow and retrieved a book, that was slightly worn from age.
The book was titled Romeo and Juliet from William Shakeshooves. She flipped it open and started reading her favorite scene. Pinkie sighed after she finished the page and closed the book and then laid it on her chest where her heart was.
"Oh Romeo, where for art thou, my Romeo?" She said as she closed her eyes, imagining herself as Juliet.
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Discord was outside of Sugar Cube Corner, about to enter but then he saw a light shine through a room at the top of the building. He appeared outside of the window, standing on the flat roof, and saw Pinkie reading a book. He saw her close the book and then heard her speak.
"Wherefore art thou my Romeo?"
Discord thought for a moment. 'Where have I heard that name?' He suddenly remembered its origin. 'Ah yes, William Shakeshooves, One of my guardians once discussed me about his stories. Although I never cared for reading the book, too boring.' Discord thought of this as on opportunity, remembering a scene the guardian described to him.
Pinkie heard a knock at her window that surprised her and made her fall off of her bed. "Ugh..." She looked over and saw the new stallion and rushed to open it. "Hello?"
Discord cleared his throat and did not try to hide his voice. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
Pinkie gasped and her heart was racing while repeating words in her mind. 'Its like my book! Its like my book!'
Discord reached in and brushed her mane slightly before continuing in his normal voice.
"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may and summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often is his gold complexion dimmed. And every fair from fair sometimes declines by chance or natures changing course untrimmed but thy eternal summer shall not fade. Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest. Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, when in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as stallions can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and gives life to thee."
Pinkie was breathless as Discord finished his sonnet.
Discord stared into Pinkies eyes. "Would thou accompany me tomorrow afternoon?"
Pinkie smiled and replied. "Yes, I would love to join thee tomorrow."
Discord reached his hoof in the window again to hold Pinkies hoof. "Until tomorrow." He retreated from the window and walked out of the flat section of the roof and slid down back into the street and waved to Pinkie.
Pinkie blushed and went back to lay in her bed, with the book back on her heart. 'I can't believe it!' Pinkie started drifting asleep, but awoke to a thought that had just occurred to her. 'Oh my gosh! I don't even know his name yet!.. I'll ask him tomorrow.' Pinkie closed her eyes again and allowed her dreams to grip her conscious.