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// Befriending a Draconequus: Part 2 
// Story: My Nonsensical Draconequus 
// by Xutiepops 
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Fluttershy didn't know what to think as she sat down at their usual lunch table. And the butterflies flapping their wings every few minutes didn't help and only brought her back to the conflicting feelings bubbling in her throat. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice the late bell ring or her friends sitting down. 
Discord was at the front of her mind and she couldn't help but feel stupid about it. It almost made it seem like she liked him more than she did her other friends, which couldn't be true, could it? Sure, he was a walking, talking, magical, and majestic animal that walked right out of her dreams and into her reality, and was super awesome and funny and made life so much more interesting and fascinating... But that couldn't equal being better than her friends she'd known for years? Especially since she had only known him for a week. 
She sighed and looked down at the pastel stones, noticing none of them were pink. Maybe it was just a honeymoon phase type thing, he was perfect and amazing, and new. All of her other friends, she had known for years... and they weren't a perfect, heavenly friend that had everything she could want from a person. Or creature. 
That still didn't make her feel any better as she could imagine telling him this and seeing him boast, reassuring her while making a smaller form of himself dance around her head at an attempt to make her feel better. She sighed. "Sugar cube?" Applejack's thick southern accent brought Fluttershy out of her thoughts. 
Fluttershy jumped before turning to Applejack with a fake and nervous smile, putting the hand that had the bracelet in her hair as if Applejack didn't know what it was. Applejack and all of her friends were under the impression she bought it, and hadn't noticed the moving butterflies yet. The only reason she had lied was because she had no idea how they'd take the idea that she spent her entire afternoons hanging out and talking to a seemingly imaginary creature. "Yes?" She asked. 
Applejack smiled motherly with an amused huff. "You alright there?" She asked, trying to keep the snicker off of her lips. Fluttershy noticed it had grabbed the partial attention of Sunset, but she turned back to see Pinkie Pie chant 'chug, chug, chug!' to Rainbow Dash who was downing fizzy apple cider. 
Fluttershy nodded, thinking of something she could use. She smiled as she found it, only imagining Discord making a light bulb appear above her head at her gasp and delighted smile. "Just, um, worried I failed my test in Chemistry," she said nervously, hoping Applejack didn't see through her lie.
Applejack raised an eyebrow and leaned over her in suspicion and Fluttershy could feel the sweat dripping down her neck as she smiled back. Applejack shrugged and sat back in her seat normally, turning to see Rarity's disgusted noise as Rainbow belched. But Fluttershy didn't get a complete sigh out before she stiffened up and smiled as Applejack looked back at her. "You ain't gonna eat nothin'?" Applejack asked, drawing another glance out of Sunset. 
Fluttershy swallowed and shook her head. "I'm, uh, too nervous!" She said, resting her head on her palm as casually as possible, though she knew she looked like a pig stuffed into a tutu trying to act normal as it attempted not getting mud on itself. She inwardly sighed, even Discord's speech and antics affected her comparisons! 
Applejack nodded as she snatched her fizzy apple cider from Rainbows thieving hands with a sneer. She turned back to Fluttershy with a smile as she popped open the bottle. "Alright, but I don't think eatin'll do ya any harm. Takin' a test on an empty stomach ain't good either," she said, downing her soda with a glower at Rainbow who had stole Soarin's who was sitting at another table while the boy was on a rant about pies. His friends found it funny that they could rile him up into a 'debate mode' just by saying one bad thing about pies. He had shooed Rainbow away when she silently asked for it. 
Fluttershy raised an eyebrow and tilted her head, she didn't say anything about a test after... She sighed and dropped her head against the table. She completely forgot that she had a test in Zoology. And she definitely hadn't been paying attention in that class. All the analogous structures talk only made her think of that amalgamation she talked too.
And as she crossed her arms over her head and watched her friends talk and eat, she could only remember that cursed draconequus and his antics. One thing that was incredibly common for him, like cotton candy cloud with chocolate milk rain common, was making utensils have more than one purpose. Oh, and liking tea.


 
Fluttershy smiled in anticipation as she stepped down the one, maybe two, stair hill into the clearing, excited for whatever random and utterly chaotic thing Discord would start their afternoon off with. She raised an eyebrow as she saw the normal green couch he always had for her next to another, very comfy looking, chair. In between the two was a table floating upside down with two teacups sitting on the bottom of it, a tea pot floating nearby with a butterfly and tornado painted on it. 
She smiled when she heard a snap and looked up next to her, seeing a very smug grin on a very confident draconequus. "I don't think I've ever told you this, dear," he said, pushing her towards the chairs and table. "But I love tea." She gasped as he snapped and appeared in the other chair, gesturing for her to sit down on her usual couch. She smiled widely as she did. 
"This looks great," she said, looking down at the cucumber sandwiches a very angry looking duck in a suit was holding on his wing. "Though I do have to say I didn't expect it."
Discord tilted his head with a smile, snapping and watching the flying teapot pour tea, a box full of tea bags opening and singing a quiet song in the background. "Living for thousands of years, I've come to find joy in one of the simpler things," he said, watching as a cup floated up and into his paw. Fluttershy giggled as she looked at the tea box and saw the word 'ginseng' written on it. 
She smirked with a devilish thought as she took a sip of the tea, fighting the urge to compliment it. "Making ginseng tea sing? That seems a little... typical, Discord," she said smugly, watching his joyous face fall at her comment. She ignored it as she took another sip of the tea that she couldn't get enough of. 
"Typical?" He asked, sitting back in his chair and crossing his legs as he furrowed his eyebrows. She felt pride wash over her as he very obviously let her comment get to him. "Yes, I suppose so... it is in the name," he mumbled to himself. She debated on whether or not she should let the idea of his mischief rubbing off on her be seen as a bad or good thing. Her mind yelled bad, but she decided to ignore it as she watched him fumble for something less 'typical'.
He snapped, his face becoming a light bulb as he clearly got an idea. She fought her want to smile or giggle at it, hiding her small, impossible to not have smile behind her cup of tea as she took another sip. "What about this?" He asked, snapping and making a piñata appear on the couch next to her. 
She watched curiously as it looked like a normal piñata. But it suddenly huffed very adorable noises before sneezing loudly, confetti and streamers coming out of it's body at the action. Discord watched her expectantly, and it took all Fluttershy had to not react, though on the inside she was laughing like a maniac at the confetti that now coated her, and the tea pot that was trying to shake it off. 
She shrugged as she smiled devilishly, moving her arm up to get the confetti out of her hair. Discord pouted, stroking his beard angrily in thought. His reaction was the only thing keeping Fluttershy from breaking, it was too funny to see him fight to find something to impress her, she couldn't give it up yet. "Maybe I've just seen the extent of your magic..." she said, happy she could successfully act as if he couldn't surprise her with a dress change. Oh, he was fuming and she loved it. 
"In five days?" He scoffed, putting a talon to his chest as his eyes widened. He shook his head. "Less that five days!" 
She held the laugh in her throat at his dramatic reaction as she nodded, sitting back and putting one leg over the other, taking another sip of her tea that never seemed to end. Even never-ending tea amazed her. "It seems so," she teased, enjoying that twitch in his eye. She could only imagine how angry he'd be at the girl that he could amaze with simple things saying he couldn't take her breath away. 
He snapped, making ducks in tutu's appear and dance like a line of girls, kicking their legs up and looking incredibly annoyed despite the wide, forced smiles on their faces. Before Fluttershy could mock him, another duck walked in front, raising his leg as the ginseng tea flew behind them and sang loudly, a pair of bongo's playing the drums in the background as sparkling red curtains framed the scene. 
Discord looked so smug and confident as hardwood floors appeared beneath the ducks, pushing the show higher and higher in the sky on stacks like a cake. Fluttershy's eyes followed in awe, wondering what other thing had happened when another snap shot them up into the sky on a balcony seating at a play. The show continued as a backdrop was changed to explosive oranges and purples in jagged, stripes outwards, all decorated with sparkles. 
Fluttershy looked over the balcony and saw an entire crowd of people, and to the left and right were other people, mostly Discords, in their same situation. She heard another snap and looked over to see Discord confidently dressed in a vest with a monocle and wine glass full of chocolate milk. He gestured towards her with the glass and drew her attention to the elegant white dress he had put her in. He rolled his eyes. "Pink is an enemy," he mumbled as he snapped, making Fluttershy appear in her now fancy chair with velvet red cushions. 
Discord clapped, the lights dimming as the curtains closed and opened to a plain field with a singular black sheep appearing in the middle. The sheep cleared it's throat as Discord leaned over and whispered to her, "Enjoy the show, my dear."
Fluttershy looked back down and sat back as the sheep introduced the play, The Three Ugly Sheep and the Evil Queen. Fluttershy couldn't help her giggle, it was a mess of famous fairy tail characters, premises, and villains, and that was just the title! The curtains closed and opened to the same field with three white sheep and one black one. One of the white sheep was much bigger, and started the play with telling her three sons that they were being disowned. 
The three sheep gasped and ran around, running into things and each other with very comical sound effects, mimicking The Three Stooges. 
The play continued, telling the three stories of the sheep and combining them into one big plot against the Evil Queen. The first story closely mocked The Three Little Pigs, a white sheep running away from the other two after their mother told them to stay together in the light of their abandonment. He was lazy, and joined two pigs who had warned him to build a secure house in case of one of the Queen's henchmen: The Big Bad Bear. 
Fluttershy was on the edge of her seat to see what happened to Sheep 1 and how Discord would put a spin on it, but the scene ended at the pigs warning and the curtains closed. They opened moments later showing Sheep 2, the other white one. 
His story followed the story of The Billy Goats Gruff. The sheep ran away since his brother did, scrounging the land for an older brother and mother that loved him. He came across two extremely tall and buff goats chewing lettuce and leaning against a fence acting tough. The sheep was delighted, and shocked, to find one of them was a woman, the larger one at that. 
But it was a mother and son pair, and the sheep couldn't be happier. He asked to be apart of their family, and the two agreed, if he was tough enough to go over the bridge and fool the Evil Queen's henchman: The Troll. Fluttershy was disappointed The Troll wasn't any different when the curtains closed, furthering her disappointment as it led to the next story. 
The last sheep was left standing in a field with no mother and no brothers, sighing and looking to the ground. He was determined to find a set of friends that wouldn't leave him and set out on a journey to do it. He came across an arrogant cat and chicken that only belittled him and he left, continuing a painful journey through a desert. He came across an oasis and ran towards it, jumping in and reveling in the cold, nice, and refreshing water. 
He sighed and peeked open his eyes hours later and saw camels standing over him with a sneer, saying he'd never be a camel, no matter how much water his fluff could hold. He begged and begged for their respect, and they agreed, as long as he could befriend the horrid sand snake that haunted their oasis. 
Fluttershy was standing over the balcony with a smile down at the play, wondering how it'd end as the curtains didn't fall and it seemed that she'd get to see what Ugly Sheep would do. But before she could, the people started vanishing from the crowds, the backdrop falling apart and deteriorating. 
She looked back and saw a sneering Discord as her, now usual green couch, caught her, the two falling out of the sky box. She watched the play room fall apart and reveal the setting sun around them, she also watched with fear as the cake stacked stage started falling, the actors screaming and making normal animal noises. She winced as the stacks got larger and larger, meaning the ground was close. 
She landed on a fluffy cloud and peeked open her eyes to see the normal clearing. She whirled to Discord, excitement in her eyes ready to beg to let her see the ending, though Discord scowled at his paw and talon before shaking his head and smiling at her, holding his paw out to her. "Despite the rather abrupt ending, that still should've been enough to impress your high standards," he said, helping her up with his disembodied talon pushing her up from underneath her. 
She hid her excitement as she wondered how far she could've pushed this. She looked down to dust off her dress, and fought the pout at her normal yellow clothes. She shrugged as she looked up at him, she smiled inwardly at her acting abilities as she walked past him slowly and tauntingly. "I mean, it wasn't a lot," she said, watching his bewildered stare follow her. "It was only a mix of a lot of fairy tales," she said, feeling the lies burn on her tongue. 
Her heart yearned for the ending and the action of the play, already curious as to how Sheep 1 would get out of his lazy house-building and not listening to warning. She wondered how Sheep 2 would fool the troll, and she especially wondered how a sweet little outcast like Ugly Sheep would befriend a sand snake. "You're kidding me!" Discord exclaimed, turning to see her uninterested stare edging on a smile. 
He narrowed his eyes, bending his neck to get an easier look at her whole face. He gasped silently as his neck straightened, his eyes widening. Fluttershy grabbed her wrist roughly behind her back as she opened her mouth, ready to admit that it was all a lie. There wasn't much of a point to keep it going if he already knew it was happening. 
But before she could say anything, he snapped and she appeared hundreds of feet in the air, sitting on a blanket of butterflies. "How's this, Fluttershy?" He asked devilishly, gesturing to the open sky that she cowered from, the breeze blowing her hair back. 
She nervously laughed as she looked up at Discord, giving him a look that said 'I asked for this, didn't I?'. He nodded as he snapped again, the butterflies latching onto Fluttershy and covering her like a dress over her clothes. Though she saw the sleeves of her sweaters disappear the butterflies hugged her chest, and didn't leave any open holes. Her face burned red as her jeans disappeared, the butterflies creating a skirt to her dress that didn't let anyone see through.
Her boots and socks vanished, replaced with glass heels that hurt and squeezed her toes into. She shot Discord a worried look as he waved his talon at her. "Discord!" She screamed as the butterflies glued to her couldn't hold her up while the butterflies she was sat on could. How illogical. 
She couldn't appreciate the rule bending of recently established rules as she dropped to the ground in her undergarments essentially. The butterflies tickling her skin meant nothing to her as she fell. She screamed, desperately for Discord as she saw him disappear, her heart dropping in her stomach. 
He wouldn't let her get hurt, she knew that, he was her friend. But that didn't stop him from letting her teeter on the edge of a heart attack. Her eyes widened and she swore her heart stopped as she looked down and saw green. "Okay! I'm sorry!" She screamed, hoping her apology would make this end sooner. 
She covered her eyes, scared for the lions mouth she'd be caught inside of and having her new butterfly dress covered in saliva. She didn't feel gross and disgusting, so she moved her hands cautiously when she realized she hit something that wasn't the harsh ground. She looked up and saw Discord smiling down at her smugly, having caught her in his arms and holding her like a princess against incredibly soft fur. 
She hugged herself as her face burned again, remembering she was half-naked under the very not revealing butterfly dress. Discord grinned toothily. "How about that dear? Did that exceed your expectations?" He purred. 
Fluttershy felt her shoulders bounce as laughs escaped her, her hand covering her mouth as she howled with laughter. She didn't know why, but his physical touches had never bothered her, and now, she was content with her covering dress. But she didn't care as she stared up at his prideful smile. She nodded. "Of course," she said, her laughter falling to a stop. She looked away from him with her own content smile. "You always surprise me."
Silence hung over them again, and she didn't even try to see his face on the verge of sheer laughter at her ridiculously sentimental tone. His friendship meant a lot to her as she looked at her butterfly wrists above the fluttering dress. She looked up at him with a smile. "Can we finish the play?" She asked like a child, not noticing his genuine smile. 
He snapped, her appearing in front of him with her elegant dress on, his vest with a tailcoat decorating him. He sneered and snapped again, making his monocle appear on his face. He straightened up with a grin as he readjusted his vest before taking a look up at the sky. The sun was setting. Fluttershy followed his stare and her shoulders dropped, the crystal lights appearing as if on cue. 
Discord smiled at her as he snapped again, her dress being replaced with her clothes. "First thing tomorrow," he assured her. She smiled and started towards her bag, waving goodbye as she climbed up the two stair hill. 



Fluttershy sighed dreamily at the memory, sitting down in her history class. The start of the play was Tuesday, a day after they declared a real friendship, and it was one she'd always remember. And the thoughts just led to what they did Wednesday, after the amazing play she swore she'd see hundreds of times over again. 



Fluttershy's dress disappeared and was replaced with a grey sweater with a draconequus stitched on in a stained-glass window fashion. She smiled and didn't argue with the ridiculous wear instead of her normal green shirt. But Discord just had to tell her why her shirt had changed. "That green is hideous," he told her, Fluttershy rolled her eyes as she walked through the grass in her normal boots instead of in heels on a skybox. 
"That play was great," she said with a wide smile. "It's way better than a lot of the movies I've seen," she said, seeing Discord's appeased expression as he snapped. 
He bowed as a movie trailer appeared behind him, Ugly Sheep walking into it and shutting the door. "The actors were ecstatic to put it on for you," he said, grinning at her amazed stare he had watched instead of the entire play. 
Fluttershy smiled as she grabbed his talon and started dragging him towards the trailer. "Can I get autographs?" She said with a wide smile. Discord simply blinked at her as a response before smiling and nodding, snapping and making the three sheep appear sitting behind a wood stand with the three painted on a wood-cutout above the stand. She ran over to them. 
Ugly Sheep smiled timidly at her, "H-hello! How, um, how did you like the play?" He asked, amazing Fluttershy at how far Discords magic went. 
"It was fantastic!" She said as she clasped her hands together, absolutely ignoring Discord and adoring how much life he could create with his magic. Even if it was fake, it wasn't at the same time. It was real fabrications, and she could talk to them and touch them. He really was a god. 
Sheep 1 and Sheep 2 squeezed Ugly Sheep between them as they leaned over the stand, grinning proudly at her. "What was your favorite part? Mine, of course," Sheep 2 said arrogantly, making Fluttershy how much went into these beings. The actor acted as he did during the first of the story, arrogant and cocky in his abilities, while at the end of the play, he softened and accepted the family member he had left, Ugly Sheep.
Sheep 1 pushed against the other actor. "No, it was my part! I learned a lesson!" The sheep fought, growling towards his fellow actor. Ugly Sheep fumed as the two tossed insults back and forth, shoving past the two actors and smiling sweetly at her. 
"You wanted an autograph?" He smiled, shooting the others grimaces. The two rolled their eyes and gave her fake smiles. Fluttershy nodded as she looked for something for the sheep to write on, remembering she hadn't grabbed anything. Her notebook appeared in her hands and she shot Discord a smile as she flipped to the inside of the back cover, handing it over. 
Fluttershy smiled at their different signatures. "My favorite part was when you all realized you didn't have to run away to find family," she said as Ugly Sheep handed the book back with an amazed stare. Fluttershy hugged the book after she looked at the cursive 'Ugly Sheep' and sloppily written 'Sheep 1' and 'Sheep 2'. "But from running away, you found out the horrors of what the Evil Queen had done, and joined together to fight her." 
The three looked absolutely amazed. Sheep 1 looked behind the black sheep at Sheep 2 and whispered, "Is that what the story's about?"
Ugly Sheep nodded at her and smiled widely. "Yeah, that's my favorite part, too," he said, holding his hoof out to Fluttershy. She grabbed it and shook his hoof. "We'll be acting it again tomorrow, February fifteenth!" He said sweetly. "We hope you'll be able to make it...?"
"Fluttershy," she nodded, though she hadn't expected Sheep 1 to snatch the book out of her hands and write her name underneath their signatures and give it back to her. She smiled, watching the ink seep into her book and she wondered if it'd stay. "Thank you," she said, turning away. 
She held their stares as she turned, though she hit extremely soft fur and looked up to see Discord's bewildered face. She wondered what it was as she looked behind her and saw the stand, the actors, and the trailer had vanished. She looked up at him. "Discord?" She asked. 
"Isn't February fourteenth Valentines Day?" He asked, watching her look down and see if the signatures had stayed. She nodded and smiled when they did. Discord shook his head as Fluttershy walked past him. "Isn't Valentines Day something important to humans?"
She hummed in thought before turning back to face him. "I guess so," she said with a shrug. "It's a day you spend with partners, or friends if you don't have a date," she explained innocently, not seeing what could very well have been considered a date. Though, neither did Discord. 
Discord pointed at himself. "Then why'd you spend it with me? Don't you have someone special?" He asked her seriously, a confused look on his face as he waited for an answer. 
She smiled at him and shrugged again. "No, I don't. But I guess I just kinda forgot about it and came out here like usual," she said with a nervous giggle. "Besides, yesterday was way funner than any of the other Valentines Day's I've had."
He snapped and appeared in front of her with a rose. "Happy Valentines Day," he said, holding it out to her and smiling contently when she took it and smiled, watching a butterfly on her bracelet flap it's wings. 
She smiled and held it up to him. "Happy Valentines Day, Discord," she said platonically, declaring her day would've been much better with him rather than some of her friends at some random café. 
He took the rose back with a grin. 



Looking back on it, it was up there with Tuesday for best days. It was a great way to spend a late Valentines Day, and she adored how it wasn't weird between them. It also made her realize that he was one of the only creatures she didn't mind physical affection like hugs or arms over her shoulder or talons and paws on her back pushing her towards a tea party from. 
She started her journey towards Zoology, figuring out she didn't pay attention to one thing her teacher had told her last class. She hung her head as she remembered the test she had in this class. But she picked up her head and puffed out her chest and marched in determination. Zoology was another class she cared about, so, just like Botany, she wasn't allowed to happily reminisce over her amazing week with her draconequus pal. 
She sighed. She just loved the word 'draconequus'.
Fluttershy walked towards Art with such a confused expression that some might've taken as anger. She wore furrowed eyebrows and a thin, small line for a mouth, and she let it decorate her face as she sat down next to Sunset Shimmer who was standing proudly next to a half finished piece that held three huge sunflowers. 
"Hey Fluttershy!" Sunset called, bringing her out of her utter confusion. "What do you think so far?" She said, gesturing towards her piece with such a proud grin. Fluttershy could see why, Sunset's skills were evident in the painting. She had nice composition but even better color choice as the background was a violent crimson that was most likely mixed in with some other color to create the cohesive brown. 
Fluttershy smiled up at her. "It looks great, just like the other one you fixed this week," she said, pointing to the painting sitting on the counter behind them that was a fix of Sunset's previous atrocity. 
The bell rang and Rarity's sandals clapped against the floor and Fluttershy wondered how her day could get any different. "Oh!" Rarity said, shaking her fists next to her face with a giddy smile. "It looks so good, darling!"
"You think so?" Sunset asked humbly, not meaning to ask for compliments, but Rarity was just so generous when it came to compliments. Rarity nodded and took a deep breath as the teacher announced another studio day, Sunset usually would've stopped her, but decided that a little confidence boost couldn't hurt.
Rarity and Sunset's voices became a buzz in the background as Fluttershy fell into her thoughts. She had finished her test in Zoology and thought of how well Discord was recovering, which led to her mindlessly doing her math work after her Zoology class. Her heart hung as she remembered the revelation she made in math, well, one of many.
Her constant chaotic tea party would end the second Discord could get his stitches removed, which would only be another week. She sunk in her chair as she heard something about Rarity's Life Lessons on Design, a program she didn't know existed.
So it really was stupid for her to be obsessed with her new lively life. It'd be over soon, and she was just given a glimpse of heaven with it. She smiled, she'd never think of cotton candy without chocolate milk again. She heard Rarity say, "What are friends for?" and remembered her other revelation in math, one that made her sneer. 
The teacher had given out busy work and pages upon pages of complex math she had dozed off through throughout the week. Since it was so much work, the teacher said you could get a partner and help each other, and just about everyone in Fluttershy's class had a friend. 
Fluttershy was furious, she didn't see any of her friends during the day, she only saw them at lunch and in Art. And because of this, they really liked to do Rainbooms practice, go out to a café, or sleep over at one of the others houses. But those things didn't necessarily fix what troubles Fluttershy had to go through whenever the teacher forced them to pick partners. And sometimes, Fluttershy looked back at Sunset taking notes over Rarity's designs, it felt like not even her friends included her.
And that only made the Discord-leaving situation worse! He was one of her only friends that spent his entire time with her and entertaining her, though that wasn't especially hard, he didn't have anyone else to talk to. Her stomach churned as she got up and found whatever art project she was working on, it was one she didn't have to think about to draw fortunately. Or unfortunately if, like today, she didn't want to think about the dumpster fire of her own problems swirling in her head. 
She grabbed her pencil and continued work on it, not knowing exactly what it was, but being perfectly content with that. Her teacher was pretty into abstract and interpretive art, so it wasn't a bad thing. Though she knew it contained a skyscraper, and almost found joy in not knowing what she was drawing. She smiled, telling herself she needed to think of something else if she wanted the result to be more confusing and unexpected than understandable and expected. 
She settled a more objective thought rather than one with emotions mixed it.



Fluttershy stared intently at his wound as Discord played Go Fish! with a fish that disliked the terminology 'go fish'. It was a humorous listen as Discord constantly used the phrase and acted innocent towards the fish, until said fish caught on and threw the cards at him. Discord was on his third fish. 
Fluttershy went to touch his stitches, but his tail swiped in front of it. She looked up at his bored expression. "That horrid pain is finally gone, you're not touching it," he hissed slightly, turning towards the fish and opening his mouth, ready to say 'go fish' when a hand of cards were thrown at him. "Oh, who needs you anyway?" He hissed as he summoned another fish. 
"I just don't understand," she said, looking at his twenty-something stitches. He was healing perfectly fine, and would be free to have the stitches removed in a week, but the pain he felt soon after he got them was mind boggling. "You're perfectly fine," she continued. 
"Then there's nothing to question," Discord replied calmly, though he was extremely prideful he had made it through one game with a fish. He snapped, looking down at Fluttershy's sorrowful expression as bandages started wrapping their way slowly around his waist. "Look, Flutter--" Discord started with his characteristic theatrics when a familiar pain pulsed through him. He bit down on his talon and growled.
Fluttershy watched as the magically formed bandages Discord made wrapped around his waist, and burnt to a crisp when they attempted to wrap over his stitches. She leaned in, furrowing her eyebrows as the bandages vanished, a transparent yellow bubble had appeared around his stiches to burn the wrappings, but it vanished when there was nothing left to burn. 
Fluttershy didn't care or notice her mane grow exceptionally longer, a green ponytail holder separating her longer than normal hair around her hips. She was too focused on the blue glowing behind Discord's stitches, or the green hue the sutures were taking on. She didn't notice Discord's bewildered stare on her when two pony like ears poked up through her hair, two yellow wings spreading and folding against her back. Just what was happening around his wound? 
"Uh, Fluttershy?" Discord asked, pointing at her, though she wasn't listening as she reached out for his cut again. He rolled his eyes and used his tail to push her far enough away that she'd look up at him. "What's happening to you?" He asked when teal eyes looking up at him. 
Fluttershy raised an eyebrow and tilted her head. "What's happening to me? There's something going on around your stitches," she said, pointing at his side.
He simply blinked at her. "You have ears, wings, and longer hair," he said seemingly nonchalantly. Fluttershy flinched as she turned to look over her shoulder, seeing yellow feathers stretch out. 
She shook her head. "Now, I really don't understand," she said, looking up at him. "These only show up when I play with my friends in our band."
"Those are normal?!" He asked, his tail blocking his side from her. She nodded calmly, waiting for his response. It seemed he couldn't even make sense of it and didn't even try to at this moment as he asked her to put the bandages on for him. After a few minutes of either party having no idea how to continue when one of them had parts of a pony decorating her, her wings, ears, and tail all disappeared. 



Fluttershy felt uneasy about it, especially when it happened yesterday, but it was one of the only times she had seen how his wound reacted to magic. But she still didn't understand. And she decided she didn't want to try to at this point in time as she sat back from her drawing, ready to see what her thoughtless mind drew up. 
Her heart dropped as it was a giant draconequus wrapping around a skyscraper, only to make it sparkle and decorate it to look like a birthday. The happy, optimistic skyscraper was matched with a vicious looking draconequus. She assumed it was meant to symbolize that looks doesn't equal who the person-- creature is. She sighed and put it up on the shelf for their classes work, not noticing Sunset's horrified expression. 
Once the bell rang the three talked their way to their practice room, opening the doors and finding Rainbow Dash already practicing with Pinkie Pie eating a doughnut at the drums. Fluttershy rolled her eyes as Sunset started up a conversation with Rainbow Dash, picking on her about missing their practice in the morning. 
The girls waited for Applejack, who got a lecture from Rainbow Dash about being on time, and Rainbow Dash once again getting bit at for not doing their practice in the morning. Fluttershy couldn't wait for this to be over. 
And it was after only a few tries at a few of Sunset's songs, they did one of Rainbow Dash's as well, of course. Fluttershy would've offered to do one of her songs, but she didn't want this to last longer than it needed to. And she didn't know why, she loved her friends, and she loved playing. But today, she really didn't want to be there. 
And all of the others got their ears and 'tails', but her. They questioned it for a bit before Rainbow begged Sunset to do one of her new songs, though Sunset still seemed hung up on it as her stare lingered on Fluttershy. 
But Fluttershy felt like her wings and ears would show, she was so excited when they decided to be done for the day, Rarity and Pinkie Pie complaining about the lots of homework and projects they had to do over the weekend. Rainbow bickered but agreed, she had a project too. 
And that was the start of the end of Fluttershy's happiness as the three had the same project and decided they could help each other on it. Sunset and Applejack had a different teacher on the subject, but agreed to help. And then it was decided, a sleep-over at Pinkie Pie's.
Fluttershy fumed her way behind the walking, talking crowd as they made their way out of the school. She was thinking of the many things she could say to get out of it, but could only come up with something about Zephyr Breeze, who they could ask about it on Monday. Besides, she was a terrible liar. 
So as they approached the parking lot, ready to pile in their respective, or respective friends car. Fluttershy sighed, hoping something would get her out of this, she had spent the entire day thinking of how much fun Discord was and now she couldn't even go see him? What if something happened to his cut? What if his magic malfunctioned like the first night again? Anxiety and worry turned her stomach and tied it into a knot. 
"Twilight?" She heard Sunset's voice say, the noise one of complete awe and amazement. Fluttershy moved to the side of the crowd, seeing Princess Twilight rubbing her head on the ground, Spike sitting next to her shaking his head. "What are you doing here?"
Twilight looked up, noticing who was questioning her, but her face didn't light up like the crowd expected. She wore upturned eyebrows and her voice dripped with worry. "Are you girls okay, what's happening?" She asked frantically, confusing the girls she talked to. But Rarity deduced the girl wasn't insane, alone at least as Spike looked just as concerned. 
Fluttershy didn't understand and she really wished everything was explained to her more. What was Twilight doing here? And why was she so worried? Nothing was happening. "There's a--" Twilight started. 
But Fluttershy interrupted her, feeling someone tap her on the shoulder and talk from behind her. "Guess who?" A deep voice she had gotten so accustomed to spoke. 
Fluttershy whirled behind her. "Dis...cord?" She started loud, worried Twilight would blame a huge amalgamation abomination for whatever she was here for, but she got quieter when she didn't see a seven, eight-foot draconequus and instead saw a person. 
He grinned toothily at her. "Discord?" Twilight asked as if she knew who this person was. Fluttershy shot her friends confused faces and Discord worried glances. This couldn't be good.