//------------------------------// // Symbiotic Chaotic // Story: Friendship is absolute chaos // by Aether Spark //------------------------------// Discord appeared and was crawling through the darkness of the night with the silence of a mouse and the movements of a snake slithering forward until the castle came into view.  “Alright, let's get to work!” Discord said as he moved across the ground and slithered his way up to Twilights front door, he then stood at the door revealing he’s now wearing a black suit and a ski mask and is holding lockpicks, bolt cutters, a cutting torch, and a crowbar. “Alright my former enemy what kind of method shall I need to use to breach your sanctua-” as Discord was speaking, however, a breeze blew the front door open making the Draconeqqus put on a bemused frown.  “...She left the front door open… how has she not been robbed yet?” Discord said as he made the tools disappear and he walked in.  "The poor thing really should lock her door at night," mused Discord as he stepped inside. "You just never know what kind of despicable chaotic criminal might come inside and rearrange the books. Or something a little more fun, and far more educational." Discord slipped upstairs being as silent as he can to avoid waking the other inhabitants of the castle. As Discord reaches Twilight’s room he spots an owl sitting on a perch next to her door who saw him approach. "Ah, Twilight's inevitable guardian of the night. So what do you intend on doing to protect the library?" "Who?" the bird said tilting his head "You, of course." Discord said amused Owlicious simply shrugs and flies off and Discord chuckles to himself. “Well that was easy, I can be glad she never bothered to get any royal guards,” Discord said, turning himself into a shadow and slinking in through the crack of the door and hovered over Twilight. Getting to work Discord plucked a hair off his head, rolled it in his palms turning it to dust, and then sprinkling the dust over Twilight. “She can appreciate this I’m sure. Come morning she’ll see things from a different perspective.” With his work here done he teleported silently outside and laughed to himself. “Ah, this will be a breeze! Now to get to work on Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, and...Fluttershy.” Discord trailed off at the end, honestly thinking about what he’s doing. “...Mmhh… I’ll do this for the rest but… to her? She’d be very upset with me… oh do I do it?” After a minute or two of pondering, he decided to flip a coin. “Heads I do, tails I don’t.” Discord gave the coin a flip and it landed on heads but it had his face on the bit. “Very well, I just hope she doesn’t get too angry with me.” and with that Discord teleported away to do his work with the other five mares. *** The sun shined over Ponyville and the ponies were ready to tackle the day as they began the early morning hustle and bustle. Just as things looked peaceful for once an angry scream echoed from the castle. “DISCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD!” came the angry voice of princess Twilight Sparkle rang out and most of the ponies present just rolled their eyes. They were hoping they’d get a break today… ---a half an hour earlier--- Twilight was dreaming of studying spells of incredible rarity, each tome she came across surpassing the last, and the shelves reached for miles meaning there was no end to the reading fun. “Wow! A tome dictating the amazing life of Princess Amore and the spells she learned?! You can’t find this in any known library!” Twilight exclaimed as she got ready to read the legendary ancient spells. “Step one: snap your fingers, step two: think of something...fun and chaotic?... Wait what?” Twilight said as she skimmed the first page. She turned the page only to find the next page had information about dishes you could make with chaos magic. “What does chaos magic have to do with Princess Amore?” Twilight said before looking at the front of the book and gaping in shock. Where it once said “Life and Spells of Princess Amore” it now said “How to live like a Draconeqqus.” “Wh-what?! When did I-” all of the sudden she heard a strange knocking sound, it sounded distant and echoing all around then she felt a tapping on her shoulder and she turned to see Discord… or not! “W-who are you?!” Twilight yelled going into a defensive position. “Isn’t chaos a type of magic?” the strange Discord-like creature said. “Huh? What do you mean?” Twilight asked, wincing as the knocking sound echoed around her ears again. “You know what I mean, is. It. magic?” the being demanded. “Y-yes?” Twilight said nervously. “Then why don’t you study it, feel it, wield it! You are the element of magic, right?” the being said. “Yeah, but that magic is specific to Discord. it’s not possible for me to use it,” Twilight responded. “Not anymore…” the being said with a chuckle. “What do you mean?” Twilight said getting scared and the knocking sound intensified in her eardrums. “Wake up,” the being responded. “What?” Twilight responded.  “WAKE UP!” the being shouted and the knocking suddenly boomed loud enough to rattle Twilight's ears and she yelled in surprise. *** Twilight tumbled out of bed all wrapped up in her covers. She groaned in pain and felt a lump on her head meaning she just hit her head on her nightstand. The door was magically opened and Starlight came in. “Twilight? I heard noises, are you alr-” Starlight paused as she saw the blanket cocoon on the ground groaning in pain. “Twilight? Are you alright?” Starlight asked worriedly “Yeah… I'm fine, just slept funny is all,” Twilight replied, not leaving her cloth cocoon. “Sorry for knocking so loud, but you overslept and according to your schedule you had to be awake two hours ago.” Starlight said instinctively taking a few steps back waiting for her teacher to have her freakout, however, no freakout came much to Starlight's surprise. Twilight just mumbled something and began shifting about in the blanket. “You're taking this unnaturally well. Usually, you'd be panicking that the order on your schedule was disrupted by oversleeping,” Starlight said with a proud smile hoping this will be a continuing trend. “Mmmmeh… who cares about order....” It was only after she said that that she became shocked by what she just said, Starlight's own expression mirroring it. “What did you say?” Starlight said out of her shock “W-who cares about order?...” Twilight said in equal shock, still not leaving her blanket cocoon. “Can you get out from under the blanket please, Twilight,” Starlight said through her shock as she was tired of talking to a blanket. She gave a light gasp as a scaly pink tail slithered out from under the blanket, a tuft of a familiar tail hair at the end of it. “Twilight?” Starlight hesitantly said as the blanket was gradually removed by the being that’s supposed to be Twilight under it. Starlight backed away a few paces as the being stretched her serpentine body out and gave a heavy yawn and turning her lavender eyes towards the frightened unicorn. “What?” Twilight asked confused *** “I’m so sorry…” Starlight said once again as Spike was putting out a couple of the fires in Twilight's room. Twilight herself sported a few burns and a black eye. “It’s fine… considering what you saw so suddenly I would have panicked and fired off a few defensive shots too…” Twilight said, examining her new form. After the little fiasco with Starlight's panic attack(s) Twilight had gotten a good look at herself and threw her own fit where she shouted Discord’s name as loud as she could. “How do you know this was Discords doing?” Starlight asked, sitting next to her teacher turned female draconequus. “This has his magic written all over it. I couldn’t think of anything else that could have done this,” Twilight said with some anger at the prankster. “So what are we going to do about it?” Starlight asked. “How about you use your new powers to clean this room?” Spike said with a raised brow. “Spike, I don’t even know how to walk upright properly in this form, how would I know how to snap appendages of an animal I've never been and use magic I've never had to clean this place up? I could end up turning you into a termite by accident for all I know,” Twilight said with a deadpan. “That…. Makes sense…” Spike said with a huff that she was right.  Twilight then turned to Starlight. “What we need to focus on is finding Discord and making him fix thi-” Twilight’s nose began to tingle “Uh oh! S-Starlight take cov- ah! ah!” Starlight knowing the situation could be bad given that an inexperienced female draconequus was about to sneeze dove at and grabbed onto Spike before putting up a barrier. A second later a powerful sneeze echoed through the entire castle causing a series of chaotic events to occur through the castle from the ceilings being covered in chocolate sauce to chairs and other legged appliances gaining motion and running around and even green and periwinkle clouds appearing in random rooms in the castle and raining down deviled eggs. Twilight fell off of her bed as it galloped out of the room as Starlight deactivated her shield and trotted over to Twilight with Spike at her side. “I’m not going to have to clean this, am I?” Spike said hoping the answer is no.  “Don’t worry. I’ll help out,” Starlight said with a sigh and she turned to Twilight. “You should probably get going, before you sneeze again and cover the town in syrup or something,” Starlight joked. “How am I going to do that? Judging by your reaction I may end up with more scratches and bruises along the way,” Twilight grumped “You're the one with reality-warping powers, so try and focus.” Starlight shrugged. “Starlight, you know what will happen if I use my powers,” Twilight said, gesturing to the chaos already running amok in her home. “Well, what does Discord do to use his?” Starlight asked. “He snaps his fingers, but I feel like there's more to it than that” Twilight pondered. “Then try that,” Starlight said giving her a supportive smile “But I never learned how to snap these things when I was in the human world,” Twilight said, moving her fingers confusedly. “Maybe you should ask the help of the one friend you know who has fingers,” Spike said, tapping his foot. “You know how?” Twilight asked, a little bit of confidence returning to her face. “Here, let me help you,” Spike said as he approached her. After a crash course on snapping your fingers from Spike, Twilight felt she was ready. “Ok… here goes nothing,” Twilight said shakily as Spike and Starlight hid behind a dresser that looked like it wanted to escape the room before something blew up. After a couple of fumbled attempts, she snapped her fingers and she flinched before opening a single eye to see if anything happened. A few moments passed like this and Spike poked his head out from behind the dresser. “Nothing happened,” Spike said both relieved and disappointed “Maybe I did it wro-” Twilight was cut off by a loud KABOOM that sent her flying out the window, through the air, and into Sweet Apple Acres landing headfirst into a tree and slipping to the ground. As Twilight was about to get up, a pile of apples fell onto her burying her beneath them. ---Back at the castle--- The dresser was flat against the wall before it fell over, revealing Spike and Starlight, who were also flat against the wall and coughing. “I really should have seen that coming…” Starlight groused.