//------------------------------// // Learning Chaos? // Story: The Apprentice of Chaos // by The Toaster //------------------------------// "WHAT'S HAPPENING??? WHAT AM I???? WHY IS THIS HAPPEN- OW!" Discord was facepalming while the boy ran in circles and hit face-first a tree, falling on his back on the ground, getting birds flying around on his head. "I Have never seen somebody more mature! Running around and screaming instead of asking the source...." He said in a sarcastic tone while he was with his arms crossed with one of his fingers poking his own head. Leo quickly fot up and walked angrily towards Discord immediately after hitting his eye on him. "YOU!" Discord seemed to smile when he saw that he had finally been noticed after watching the young man run in circles for 15 long minutes, he openned his arms and posed. "ME!" Leo seemed to ignore the god's antics and would point to himself. "What have you done to me??!" The god looked him up and down while poking his mouth while making a pout pretending to be thinking deeply, until he snapped his fingers and raised his index, he smiled as if he had discovered something. "I Know!" He said approaching the boy and with a malicious smile and poked his belly. "I did, YOU a favor." He looked at him and looked at himself, having become practically a younger version of Discord. "FAVOR??! You turned me into an abomination!" Discord gasped, doing a dramatic pose while placing the back of his hand on the head and the other on his chest while speaking in a mega dramatic tone. "Abomination?? How can you say that about my vast beauty??!" He just looked at him with an expression of 'are you serious?' With one of his hands almost pulling his hair out in anger. "Why did you do this??? I was fine in my normal life! You could have cloned yourself or something!" Discord just looked at him with a sadistic smile, suddenly disappearing with an 'POP' sound, surprising the young man, and then suddenly appearing flying and surrounding the smallest with his body while laughing and facing him. "Why do people do things? Why do what I do?" He would say with a sadistic smile as he ran his hand over his beard under his chin. "Because...." He spoke in a darker tone as he brought his face closer to Leo who in fearing the figure in front of him, slowly flinched away in response in response. "FOR THE COMPLETE AND HUGE BOREDITY REASON!" He then said, jumping backwards with a huge smile, throwing his arms into the air while several balloons with letters forming the word 'boredom' floated above him. Leo was just even more confused, raising an eyebrow at that. "Wha....?" He wrapped his arm around Leo and raised a fist in the air showing confidence. "EXACT MY CHAOS COMRADE!" He then pushed Leo into an invisible hole that had came out of nowhere, making him fall into a void out of nowhere, he fell screaming all the way down. Discord appeared falling beside him laughing at Leo's despair. "You will help me to get me out of boredom! It will do the divine service of entertaining me!" He said in an laying down position while they were falling. "You should be honored." He said while snapping his fingers, making them both suddenly fall onto a huge pillow, Leo fell face first, but regained his composure, still completely confused about what was going on, Discord just getting more more entertained. "You see, doing everything chaotic is fun!" With another snap of the fingers, everything started to shake, and a huge chair would come up from the floor under the cushion, and she started immediately walking, yes, WALKING, while all the empty scenery they were was starting to change, he would see a forest if forming next to a beautiful stream. That immediately changed, the trees suddenly turned themselves into sweet cottons! And the sudden little stream would turn brown, probably chocolate, and it would start to... Rain... just the opposite way it was supposed to rain.... Literally flying and entering in a brown cloud. The end of the 'stream' flew into a cloud! What the fuck! He watched everything happening with one of his eyes twisting, trying to process everything that happened, while Discord laughed like never before. "All of this is a beauty! And with you, we can do a million and one more things!" He just looked at Discord in shock as if he had grown two heads (He could do it), he put a hand on Leo's shoulder while smiling. "Together!" He would say while laughing. 'What the hell is happening...?' Let's say that Leo's introduction to Discord... was not one of the most common.... Magic.... Leo never expected that something like this existed in any way, but there it was, something that sent him there and changed him completely, imagine his reaction when everything he thought that was nothing but a dream proved to be just a lie that he kept repeating to himself, magic existed, it was no longer part of a fairy tale. He basically don't need to sleep, the body doesn't obey the laws of physics anymore, shit, It doesn't obey any more imaginable laws! I can do whatever I want to be possible! The first few days may have been difficult, Discord can be many things, but a good teacher? That he obviously is not, but he is not a bad person, just too childish for someone who is said to have millennia carried on his back. He showed himself to be very friendly and showed him how his new body worked and how his chaotic magic worked, he had basically become a god who was fueled by the chaos caused in the world. Did a guy stumble? Is a city in a mess? Did anarchy arise? Anything that put an end to the peace and quiet of others brought more strength to himself. It is clear that he questioned and completely refused to use these powers, as he could live with himself for being literally a blood sucker from all the problems caused to others, they were powerful enough to be considered deity's, Why not use this power to good? Leo refused. Discord surprised him by giving him a lesson he never expected that such a friendly being would be able to bring. He no longer had his trivial smile, his stupid composure was gone, and his aura seemed dark. "You really are a little kid to imagine that the whole world spins on the 'Good' triumphing. Blah!" He let out a groan as he threw his hands up. "Good, Bad, it's so easy to judge and point out mistakes, but to correct them? Nobody knows how! The answer is very simple!" He would say with a forefinger. "YOU CANNOT CORRECT SOMETHING INCORRIGIBLE!" He said laughing. "People think that the Good is always the 'light'! Goodness! Happiness! Creativity and yadayadayada, what they do not realize is that they would be nothing without the 'darkness'." He says while circulating Leo, he found himself more and more engaged with what Discord said, being unaware fascinated. "Think of the world as if it were a river in a small forest, Order and Harmony keep our beloved river in its common rhythm and course, always following in a zigzag sequence, the few stones are the small problems they encounter, but completely manage to surpass." He says as he stopped behind Leo, placing a hand on his right shoulder and the left hand would show the 'river' that the boy looks at with interest. "This is where Chaos enters, like a huge rain cloud that would flood the river, create the complete confusion and disorder of the previously controlled river, a state in which behavior and events are not controlled by anything, being completely random, just the state of the universe before there was any order and before stars and planets were formed. " He says as he showed a huge rain cloud appearing over the river, completely overflowing and flooding everything around. "And after the rain had passed, the river had returned to its normal size and course, giving space for more fertile soil, new trees to grow around, and more new plantations." He dispersed the illusion shown in his hand and started walking around Leo with his hands behind his back, smiling when he saw the realization on the little boy's face. "Do you see now Leo? Chaos and disorder is the only thing that makes Harmony and peace look so sweet, what makes learning so important and how it inspires creativity, putting problems in front of the previously untested, we forced them to get out of their own bubbles!" He says with a sincere smile as he raises an index finger in front of him. "Now! What do you think about crating a lollipop Forest? You think you are up for the challenge?" Yep, no matter how smart he is, he's still a Dumbass.