Discord's Little Butterfly

by Fluskie


Chapter 5: Graduation Disaster

“Discord, I’m leaving!”

Discord suddenly poofed behind Fluttershy, carrying a bag of chips and crunching on them.

“Oh no you’re not, missy. It’s too late for you to be going out at this hour. And that’s saying something as the Lord of Chaos. I’m quite easy on the rules since I myself do not follow rules and you know that.”

“But I have to go. I told you that I’m requesting a dress from my friend for the graduation dance.”

“Who is this..’Friend’ and why do they need you to be out so late? Can’t you do it tomorrow?”

“It’s that unicorn from Carousel Boutique! Her name is Rarity. I’m pretty sure I told you about her before. She gave me a discount on some clothes a while back and we’ve been friends ever since. I’ve even met one of her other friends who is a pegasus and runs the weather in Ponyville and other places. Her mane is amazing!”

“Well this Rarity sounds like a Canterlot snob who is trying to manipulate you  and the other one sounds like she’s nothing but selfish just by the thought of her ‘amazing mane’. Don’t hang with them, Fluttershy. Hang with me! I’m the most fun after all. You know you can trust me more than you can trust them.”

“Discord, I’ve heard your lectures about ponies many times before and they haven’t changed. I’m older now and graduating from school anyways. I can take care of myself and watch out for toxic friends.”

Fluttershy turned around, making her way for the door when she felt her back leg being pulled on. She turned around to see Discord hanging on to her leg and giving her puppy eyes. He looked like he was almost in tears. Clearly he was acting though.

“Don’t go Fluttershy, I’ll give you all the puppies in the world if you stay!” He pleaded.

Fluttershy giggled. “While that’s a very tempting offer, I have to say no. I’ll be back soon though and I’ll even show you maybe a rough draft of the dress I’m getting for graduation. You promised you would be there as well.”

“I..Well, um…”

“I hope you don’t bail on me because you’ll have to be in disguise and be around tons of ponies.”

“Of course not! Why would I miss out on my daughter’s most important moment of her life?”

“I wouldn’t say it’s the most important but it’s pretty special to me.” Fluttershy say as she turned the door knob, opening it and beginning to trot out. “See you later!”

“Don’t come home too late!”

“I promise I’ll be back by ten at night in Equestria hours!”

He watched the almost adult pegasus disappear through a nearby portal at the end of the front yard with a small flash. Once he was sure she was gone, he sighed and slumped into a arm chair. Time to sleep his alone hours away.

***

“Discord, I’m home!”

He immediately sat up in his seat as he watched his daughter enter through the door, a small notebook in hoof. He got up from his arm chair and greeted her, his eyes falling to the little notebook she carried.

“What’s that?” He asked, pointing to it.

“Oh, I told you that I was going to show you the rough draft of the dress. Rarity sketches out what she plans on making first so she gets an idea of what it’s going to look like and how to make it. This is both my ideas and hers combined together!”

She flipped open the notebook to the first page and held it out to him grinning. It was a very detailed looking dress (aside from the poor messy coloring) that looked like a flower itself. It looked like a bunch of pink petals were sewn together to make a dress that flowed to the ground and would most likely drag behind whoever wore it. On the sides of it, little sunflowers and other types of flowers were hung by a hot pink ribbon which tied together at the back. It was perfect..It was like it fit both Fluttershy’s interests and personality perfectly well and that only she could wear it. It would only fit her. 

“Wow..That’s..Well, I’m sure it’ll be more beautiful once I see it myself since this is just a messy drawing but..Wow.”

“I know! Rarity did such a good job. I wanted it to be nature looking and feel like I was wearing the animals and plants of the Everfree with me since..You know, they’re not allowed to be with me.” 

“Who says they’re not allowed to be with you? I can rearrange that in a simple-“

“No!” 

Discord had his claw held in the air ready to snap when Fluttershy grabbed it quickly.

“Oh! Sorry..It's not that I don’t want you to help, I just don’t think it’s a good idea. I don’t want anypony to get hurt and I’m sure the animals or well..The flowers wouldn’t enjoy being around so many ponies at once. It’s not their ideal place to be.”

“Oh, I see. No problem.”

Fluttershy released his claw as he gently rubbed it now with his paw, thinking to himself. 

“Perhaps I could plan a special graduation for just you and me and your animal friends.”

“For just us?..What do you mean?”

“Well, I could make a little party in the woods and graduate you myself with all the animals watching. That way they wouldn’t miss out. You could still go to the pony one if you truly desired. You’d just have two graduations to do.”

Fluttershy gasped, her eyes lighting up. “Discord, that’s a great idea! Well..I mean, if it isn’t too much trouble?”

“Of course not my dear. Anything for you.”

Fluttershy clapped her hooves and squealed, giving Discord a hug and trotting away giddily. He only chuckled and sighed. He had a lot to do tonight and perhaps some compromise making with the animals.

***

“Ow!”

“Oof!”

“Watch it!”

“Watch the tail, sir. Ya’ coulda’ poked my eye.”

Ponies in a row of seats complained as ‘Tornado Twister’ hurriedly made his way to his seat for the pony graduation. When he sat down, he had already made the entire row grumpy with him as he finally sat down beside a mother who was feeding her baby a bottle of milk. She didn’t seem to notice as she only smiled at her little offspring. It reminded him of when Fluttershy was small..The good times..

He had made it just in time as he heard someone walk on stage, presumingly the principal who stopped in front of a microphone and looked out at the crowd and the many ponies below dressed in blue. The soon to be graduates. He couldn’t see Fluttershy in there but he knew she had to be somewhere in there. He’d soon see anyways.

“Good evening soon to be graduates and their families. I am very pleased to have you all here today and to be able to assist your young mares and stallions into the next stage of their life. It feels….”

Annndd that’s when ‘Tornado’ stopped listening. Nothing but a boring old speech he didn’t need to hear. Instead he thought about Fluttershy and chaos and for some odd reason Princes Celestia crying over her castle being turned to cheese. What a great idea for the future..No, Fluttershy would scold him for that. She was fine with harmless little jokes but not ‘pranks’ that would ‘harm’ ponies. She cared too much..Way too much. 

It seemed the muffled speech he didn’t listen to was over as he now heard names being called out as ponies trotted up to the stage to claim some kind of rolled up parchment. The principal would move some kind string attached to their hat on to the other side while they were there. The ponies cheered and clapped after as most of the now graduated ponies exited the stage with nervous smiles as they waved to their family in the audience. He also tuned that out after the first few ponies as he only listened for Fluttershy to be called.

“Rarity!”

Hold, on what?! He opened his eyes from attempting to sleep through this to look and see a white unicorn with a twirly looking purple mane approach the principal on the stage. She had big eyelashes and light blue eyeshadow on as she was also dressed in the graduation attire. She looked rather proud as she accepted the parchment and smiled at the crowd as they cheered. He could see a few stallions drooling and cheering particularly hard for her. Stallions..Of course they couldn’t control themselves.

Somepony cheering caught his eye though as he saw two light yellow hooves from the graduation group in the air. He could swear he could hear soft cheering as well. Was that Fluttershy? Rarity soon sat down again as she joined beside the light yellow hooves. He could only see her purple mane as the hooves soon disappeared back down into the crowd.

 Well, now he knew who this Rarity gal was and he was sure she was nothing but rich. Somepony who would use Fluttershy and pretend to be her friend..He would destroy her..

“Fluttershy!”

He immediately stood up upon hearing her name as a big smile came upon his face. Fluttershy nervously trotted up on to the stage, forcing a smile on her face as she accepted her parchment while her hat was adjusted. She hesitantly turned to the crowd, her eyes searching around. The crowd cheered for her but ‘Tornado’ made it his job to the loudest of them all as he yelled over them and clapped his hooves. It didn’t take long for her to find him. She smiled and giggled, waving at him.

“That’s my daughter! That’s my Fluttershy! Woooo!”

She trotted off the stage smiling and took her seat. He then sat down again, panting slightly from the amount of energy he just used to cheer her on. It was worth it though. Exhausting but worth it.

***

“Are you sure I can’t come with you?”

“Yes, I’m sure. It’s a dance for just the graduates. Besides, it’d be weird to go with my father anyways. Nopony else is. We will get to dance tonight for the private graduation party you're planning anyways. The animals will have lots of fun I’m sure.”
 
Fluttershy and Discord were back home as Fluttershy carefully tucked a little pink flower into her mane as she peered into a mirror. She was wearing her dress and Discord had to admit, she looked gorgeous. He carefully fixed a strand in her mane and clapped his paw and claw together.

“Perfect! You look wonderful my dear!”

“Thank you, Discord.” Fluttershy said, grinning as she posed a bit in the mirror.

She trotted towards the door, her long flower dress dragging behind her. She turned back to Discord.

“I won’t be gone for too long. Bye, Discord!”

“Bye, Fluttershy!”

He waited for her to fully leave his dimension before doing a girly squeal and a little dance in place. He snapped as he teleported from his dimension to what seemed to be the Everfree Forest.

 Normally ponies were terrified of this forest because of the many rumors of the weather that did its own thing without pegasus assistance and the animals that also lived on their own. Its trees also blocked out most of the sunlight from entering the forest so that was another factor. This didn’t bother Fluttershy and Discord however. Fluttershy had played in this forest since she was first able to walk and they both had never had issues. Heck, she even got her cutie mark within this very forest. What was there to be afraid of? 

Discord walked a little into the forest before whistling loudly, pausing and listening as his whistle echoed against each tree within the forest. It wasn’t long before he heard a tiny stampede of animals coming his way. The whistle worked just like Fluttershy said it would. He soon had small bunnies and squirrels sitting down in front of him, confused that he wasn’t Fluttershy. Many birds flew over, tweeting and flying all about and Fluttershy’s bear friend came walking over, giving Discord a weird look. 

“Is this everyone? I have an important announcement about Fluttershy!” Discord said, cupping his claws and yelling over the animal chatter.

The animals abruptly stopped excitedly talking to one another and looked around at each furry face and bird beak around them. It seemed everyone was here. A squirrel gave him a thumbs up with its small paw.

“Alright, good. As you all might know, Fluttershy is graduating from her pony school. You might know what a school is..You might not..Doesn’t matter. You all know what a party or a celebration is, right?”

They all nodded. They probably had experience from Fluttershy having little parties for them or perhaps they found their way into Ponyville. There was a lot of talk about parties there and planned ones.

“Well, we’re going to plan basically a party for her. I’ll show you all what we need to do and how this will happen. First though, I need to assign jobs.”

And so it began. The squirrels were assigned to hang ribbons and tiny lamps in the trees, the birds to throw small rose petals on a small rock path that was currently being built by the bear, a stage and a dance floor was being made by Discord currently, and the bees and the butterflies were setting out chairs of all sizes around the stage area. Discord had to admit, it was a little unfair to give tiny creatures such as butterflies and bees the chair setting up job, but every other animal was busy and they couldn’t exactly do much else. They seemed to figure it out though as they grouped up to carry large chairs. 

It wasn’t long before the party really started to look like a party. It seemed the animals even decided to add their own idea as there was a small table carrying bird seed and other foods of the small creatures. Discord decided to make his own for Fluttershy and him as he snapped up a table full of little snacks and beverages for them to share during the night. 

It was a few hours before midnight when the last detail was added and it was confirmed that the party was ready.

“Alright, that looks good! I can’t believe I’m saying this to a bunch of animals but..You all did great!”

The animals cheered as they gave each other high fives and some kind of secret handshakes. Discord chuckled a little as he clapped his paw and claw together.

“Now, first off, I think it would be best if you all sat in the chairs and waited for her to come and I’ll stand to the side at the entrance of the party. Once the small graduation part is done, then the party is on and you all can do what you want. Now, hurry, hurry, she’s coming soon!”

The animals scurried to get a seat as Discord snapped his claw, teleporting a black tuxedo on and leaning against a little flower archway. He checked a watch that seemed to be drawn messily in marker on his arm as he watched for Fluttershy to make her way over.

It wasn’t long when the animals spotted a pony figure in a long dress flying over. Discord noticed as well as he adjusted a tie he had on, knitting his claw and paw together behind his back. His calm relaxed face however soon turned to a look of pure fear in a matter of seconds.

“She wasn’t lying? Are you kidding me!”

The pegasus that was flying over to them was not the pegasus they expected. A blue pegasus mare in a long rainbow dress was staring at the whole party in shock. She mostly had her eyes on Discord though who was trying to hide behind the flower archway so she wouldn’t see who he was but was clearly failing. 

The rainbow maned pony softly landed on the ground as she started to make her way over, cautiously. 

“I can’t believe you’ve been with Fluttershy all this time. They only said you went into hiding and that was that. This is unbelievable.”

“If you get any closer to the party and me, I’ll make sure you suffer a punishment worse than just memory erase. This was for Fluttershy and Fluttershy only..You were not invited and are not welcome.”

“If you did that Fluttershy wouldn’t be very pleased. Besides, we have a friend who’s a student of Princess Celestia. They contact each other almost everyday. I’m sure you being locked back in stone again can be arranged.”

“A student..Of..Princess Celestia?” Discord now poked his head out from behind the flower archway.

“Gee, you must be really out of whack with the time right now. I guess that’s what you get for hiding away with a pony for years. Are you her boyfriend or something? I don’t know how Fluttershy would choose such an ugly old man.”

“Boyfriend?! Absolutely not!” 

“Then what are you doing with an innocent pony such as herself?! Are you planning to eat her later?”

“No!”

“Are you going to use her like a puppet with your chaos magic and make her do everything you say?”

“No!”

“Then what is it then? I swear, if you hurt her, you’ll be sorry. These hooves do more than just trot.” The mare threatened, bringing her hooves up into a punching position.

“Like you could even do anything to me. You’re nothing but a puny little pegasus.”

The mare’s face quickly changed to one of anger as she gritted her teeth and zoomed at an alarming speed towards Discord. His eyes followed the rainbow blur zooming right for him as he casually lifted his claw. The mare suddenly came to a halt in the air as her entire body was being held still by his magic. He levitated her right to his face now as he simply smiled.

“Only wings and hooves and you think you’re so great. I have wings, magic, and the ability to get whatever I want. And what I want will be what you want as well..”

He brought his lion paw to her face as her pink eyes suddenly turned into colorful swirls that swirled around and around endlessly. Her body suddenly went limp as all her inner defenses surrendered to his power.

“Let my voice and my magic consume you little pony..You won’t have to fight no longer and tire yourself out if you do..Just listen to me and let me be the only voice you-“

“Discord! Put Rainbow Dash down at once!”

He looked beyond his controlled pony to see a purple unicorn also wearing a dress and staring him down. He definitely wasn’t expecting another one to show up. 

“How many friends do you have?” He said, looking down at the rainbow pony.

“Ten..Perhaps more I cannot recall.” Rainbow Dash answered, her tone sounding robotic and emotionless.

“Well recall them already! I don’t have all day!” He said, shaking her furiously. 

“Discord!”

He immediately looked up to see his daughter Fluttershy galloping over, having a rather frightened look on her face. 

“Fluttershy! There you are, I was starting to worry that you weren’t going to show up. Now, what are all these ponies doing here? You know that I can’t be exposed like-“

“Release Rainbow Dash now!” Fluttershy yelled over him.

“Alright, fine! There’s no reason for you to yell. You’re lucky I’m nice to you..”

Discord’s magic released Rainbow as she started to fall. The purple unicorn quickly caught her with her magic and brought her into her hooves. Her eyes were still swirling as she stared into the distance.

“Rainbow, are you okay?” The purple unicorn asked.

“I do not respond to anyone who is not the Lord of-“

“Snap out of it, Rainbow!”

Rainbow closed her eyes and shook her head suddenly. When she opened them, her eyes were back to normal and she blinked several times as she stared up at the purple unicorn confused.

“Twilight?..What happened?..W-Why..Ow!”

The blue pegasus flinched as she brought her hoof up to her forehead, rubbing it as she squeezed her eyes shut. 

“Hey, take it easy. Whatever Discord did to you must have been pretty powerful. Here, lay your head down.”

The purple unicorn named Twilight began to slowly lower Rainbow down onto the ground, supporting her head and her back with her hooves. A small pillow poofed under Rainbow’s head as it was softly lowered onto the pillow. Rainbow sighed, letting her muscles relax and her wings go limp at her sides. 

“There you go. I’ll get you in a bed in Canterlot as soon as possible. For now, stay here.”

Rainbow nodded as Twilight trotted away from her, joining Fluttershy’s side.

“Of course, you told them about me didn’t you. You just couldn’t leave it alone. You couldn’t have just enjoyed the nice party me and the animals organized. Just screw everything up for me, right?” Discord said, gesturing to the animals who still remained in their seats, watching whatever was going on right now with interest.

“That is not what I intended and you know that. Trust me, I did want to attend the party just you and me and the animals..But..Some plans changed.” Fluttershy said, looking down at the ground now and frowning.

“What she means is, the Princess has called all of us to the castle as an emergency and you messing with Rainbow Dash like that is wasting time and wasting my patience with you.” Twilight answered rather sternly. 

“Yes because I care about your precious patience.” Discord responded sarcastically.

“You will when I send a scroll to Princess Celestia to turn you back to stone.”

Discord eyes widened as he stood there in shock and realization. This little unicorn was the one called ‘Rainbow Crash’..Rainbow Crash?..Yes, Rainbow Crash was talking about. A tiny unicorn who acted all high and mighty?..And why wasn’t Fluttershy doing anything about this? Why was she just standing there letting him take it?..

“Look, Fluttershy told us that you’re a ‘friend’ of hers and that you’re not bad anymore. I highly doubt it but I trust Fluttershy’s judgement. That display that you showed there with Rainbow will not happen again or I will tell the Princess where you are. I know who you are and what you’ve done a thousand years ago. I’m not afraid to take action..Got that?” 

“Sure.”

“Twilight, there’s no need to be so harsh.” Fluttershy said.

“There is if he’s hurting my friends..Our friends. Harming ponies is not acceptable and it shouldn’t be to you either.”

Fluttershy only frowned as Twilight trotted back over to Rainbow.

“Come on, we don’t have a lot of time to waste. The others are waiting for us.” Twilight said as her horn began to glow, seeming to be preparing a teleport as her purple aura started to envelop Rainbow on the ground.

“Discord..I-I have to go. I’ll..I’ll see you back home later..”

“Fluttershy, wait!”

Fluttershy turned her back on him and galloped over to Twilight. She made it just in time as Twilight casted the spell. They all disappeared with a poof as only a few sparkles were left behind, flying through the air and disappearing as well.

Discord sunk to his knees as he lowered his head. Was his fear coming true?..Or, was this a small attempt for the ponies to get to know her and she would decline later on..But, why would Princess Celestia need her?..Perhaps she knew something Discord didn’t want her to know..