"Talk"
'Thought'
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"He what?..."
A snow-white alicorn, which was a female pony with pegasus wings and a unicorn horn, all while having flowing, wavy, blue, green, purple, and pink hair, stood before her student, Princess Celestia, who was currently wearing a shocked expression on her face.
"He just gave up, promising to never cause chaos to all of Equestria, he even allowed me to put on a magic weakening cuff on him."
Twilight quickly summarized what had just happened, though despite it being true, the Alicorn Princess was still having a hard time accepting it.
"But why? In all my life of knowing him, he would never give up something so easily just like that, also he takes great pride in his chaos magic, so why would he purposely limit and weaken his own powers?"
Celestia, while obviously happy that her greatest enemy had been stopped, still could not comprehend or understand why he had stopped at all.
"Well, um…"
Twilight rubbed the back of her head with her hoof, wanting to say something, but was also unsure on how to explain it.
"Discord, the reason he did this, was to, um… Was to save someone in return?..."
What Twilight definitely confused her teacher, and she couldn't really blame her, as she was still confused about it herself, but it was all she could say for certain that had happened.
"Save someone? What do you mean?"
The thought of Discord doing anything so selfless was so unbelievable and hard to accept as fact for Celestia; even thinking it was a joke or lie.
"Before we could turn him into stone, a, um, a cat, monkey, thing? Named Neferpitou, jumped in front of him and took our spell instead of our original target, resulting in her turning into a puppet."
Twilight frowned softly as she remembered the mistake of hitting someone with her elemental magic that was supposed to be Discord; even though this Neferpitou was most likely working for him in some way, she still couldn't help but feel guilty when hitting the chimera neko with said attack.
"So Discord purposely went out of his way to turn our world back to normal and risk his own freedom… To save someone he deeply cares about?..."
Celestia nodded softly in response, which caused her to hum and rub her chin with her hoof, seeming to be deep in thought over this whole situation, which had Sparkle looking at her curiously, wondering what she would do next.
"Take me to him."
Meanwhile, at the deepest part of a dungeon within the Canterlot Castle, Discord, who was imprisoned within a cell, still wore his magic-limiting cuffs and was dressed in orange prison garb. He spoke to Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack.
"-ALSO! She always neglects to eat on her own, not to mention she will only eat what I make her, so give her this and make sure she eats, ok? I do not want to see her starving, UNDERSTAND?!"
Discord reaches out a lion paw from between the cell bars and summons a sack, which took some effort to create with his limited magic, before he then places it into Pinkie Pie's hooves.
"I trust you the most out of the three to give it to Fluttershy and Rarity."
Discord bluntly said this, which made Rainbow Dash and Applejack slightly offended, though Pinkie Pie just nodded happily and accepted the job.
"You have my 'Pinkie Promise' that this will be brought and fed to your friend~"
Pinkie saluted to the Draconequus before turning away and hopping off happily, which made him sigh; even though he trusted her the most, he still worried and felt a bit frustrated that he couldn't do anything about it.
"Anything else you wish to tell us, Mister Discord?"
Applejack raised an eyebrow, wondering if the Lord of Chaos needed them to do something else; he just shook his head and leaned against a wall.
"No, thank you girls…"
Discord leans his head back and rubs his face; a mix of defeat and worry fill his expression, which the blue pegasus and the orange pony don't know what to say or do in this situation.
"I think it's more weird to see him like this than being chaotic and rude?..."
All Rainbow Dash had to say was this, and the cowgirl couldn't help but agree with a simple nod
"... So have you decided on my punishment yet?"
After a few moments of silence, Discord said, "Which at first confused the two ponies, and were about to ask who he was talking to, but stopped when they heard the sound of light footsteps approaching them."
"My sister isn't awake yet, but I might have something in mind for you."
Everyone looked to see Princess Celestia walking into the dungeon and went up to the cell where the Spirit of Disharmony was being held captive. Miss Sparkle, who had been standing beside the Alicorn Princess when she entered the place, quickly ran up to her friends to make sure they were all okay and hadn't been harmed by the prisoner.
"As long as Neferpitou isn't involved, then I'm fine with whatever you two choose…"
Discord simply responded, still having his head leaned against the wall, eyes closed as if refusing to acknowledge anyone, though a few could see and notice his fist lightly clenched at the mention of Neferpitou.
"Actually, speaking of Neferpitou-"
"IF YOU DARE LAY A SINGLE HOOVE, OR EVEN THINK OF USING YOUR MAGIC ON HER, I SWEAR, I SWEAR!"
Before Celestia could say anything else, Discord was up and pressed against her, his red pupils turning into angry slits, his claws and paws sharpened, and his entire body tense. It looked as though he were about to release a lot more of his dangerous magic, which was enough to make the smaller ponies hide behind the larger white pony out of extreme fear. Even the Alicorn Princess herself flinched from such an outburst; however, instead of backing away out of fear or even pushing back in defiance, she simply looked at him with a small smile.
"So it is true, you did find someone you value more than your chaos."
As soon as Celestia said this, the Draconequus instantly calmed down, which caused the fearful ponies to let out a relaxed sigh, and they tiredly slid back into their cells.
"Yes yes, friendship is magic, I already got the message unfortunately…"
Discord wrapped himself around himself like a snake and layed his chin on his own body, his expression looking exhausted and unamused.
"But that only applies to her, I do not view any of you as such, and you can't convince me otherwise."
Discord clearly had negative feelings and thoughts about them, which did cause a few frowns and returned those feelings, however the sun pony herself remained smiling with a knowing smile.
"We'll see Discord, but for another time."
Celestia then sat down in front of the cell, glancing and nodding at her student, which the purple unicorn understood and quickly pulled out a notebook and feather pen.
"Right now, let us discuss something, and depending on how you answer will affect your punishment, ok?"
When Celestia suggested this, Discord couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, as if wondering what she was planning and what she had in mind.
"How I answer? What will you ask of me?..."
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I have a Fanfic and Wattpad account, where my MLP and none MLP stories will be put there, won't change much, but it exist if anyone is interested lol~
(BTW, my punishment idea, which was actually suggested by someone, thank you, was to place Discord under some kind of house arrest somewhere in Ponyville, where he will be stuck in home, and be the only place where he can release his chaos magic, but he can not leave his home unless given permission or was asked of him, but he can not leave his home without wearing his magic limiting collar, which was made by the Elements of Harmony, basically his punishment is living a normal life filled with restrictions, and if you know Discord, it will be tormenting for him, OH! Neferpitou won't be punished, but it will be hard for her to, you'll see)