//------------------------------// // Legends or Truth? // Story: Breaking Chaos // by KiaraKovu123 //------------------------------// Downstairs, Pinkie was fixing dinner for Pound and Pumpkin while Discord played with them. He chased them around the house and told them stories. And best of all…jokes! He was having a great time. Pinkie was making blueberry pie and cherry chongas! It was a recipe she’d wanted to make for a long time. Mashed up cherries inside a tortilla and deep fried sounded good to her. She wondered if her guest would like it. “Dinner!” she called from the kitchen as she set the food on the table and gave the twins their baby food. Discord flew in with Pound hanging on his antler and Pumpkin riding on his back. Pinkie smiled nervously. Discord understood and picked up Pound and set him in his high chair. He did the same with Pumpkin. “Um…Dissy? Could you…?” Discord raised an eyebrow and pulled out a chair. “What?” he said as he sat down. *Creak* he looked down and chuckled. “Too big, huh?” he snapped his fingers and morphed into a pony again. Pinkie smiled. “Better!” she sat down and inhaled a breath. “LET’S EAT!” she dug into her food, bits of cherries flew everywhere as she wolfed down the cherry chonga at lightning speed. The twins ignored her and chewed on their baby food. But Discord, however, couldn’t take his eyes of her. Pinkie noticed and sat up straight, “What?” she asked. Discord snapped out of it and looked at his own plate, “Nothing, I guess…” Pinkie shrugged and dove into her dinner again. Discord levitated a fork with his Alicorn magic and ate his cherry chonga. “T-this is good. What is it?” he asked Pinkie. “It’s a cherry chonga! Or a chimmy-cherry! Or a chimmy-cherry-chonga! Whatever you wanna call it!” Pinkie beamed, “Do you like it?” Discord licked his lips as he finished up the last bit of it. “I love it! How did you make it?” “Simple! It’s just mashed up cherries in a tortilla that’s deep fried!” Pinkie explained as she got a piece of the blueberry pie. Discord licked his lips and grabbed one, too. “Who taught you to make it?” Discord asked. “Taught myself! I made up the whole thing, you know!” Discord was surprised at this. “Wow…” “Can you cook?” Pinkie innocently asked. Discord was silent. Pinkie cocked her head. “No?” Discord blushed, “Well…I guess not…” he took a bite of the pie. Pinkie grinned. “I could teach you!” Discord choked. “Oh, my! Are you ok!?” Pinkie’s eyes widened. Discord coughed, “Yeah, I’m…fine. Just, teach…me? To cook?” Pinkie smiled, “Yup! If you wanna learn, that is.” Discord looked at the crumbs on his empty plate, “I’d like to learn, actually.” Pinkie glowed with happiness. “Sure! I’ll teach ya!” she walked over to a cupboard and opened it. “Could you go play with Pound and Pumpkin while I find a recipe for us to try our hooves at?” Discord nodded, “Sure, Pinkie.” He walked over to Pound and Pumpkin and snapped back to a draconiques again, “Playtime!” he smiled. The twins cheered and jumped on Discord’s back. “Choo-choo!” he chuckled and flew into the other room. -- A few minutes later, Pinkie found one. “Aha! Triple Deck Chocolate Fudge ice-cream cake!” she trotted out into the lobby where Discord and the twins were playing peek-a-boo. “They need to go to bed now, it’s late.” Pinkie said. Discord let out an “Aw…” and Pound Cake frowned. Pumpkin yawned and then smiled at Discord. Pinkie smiled softly. “Come on! Hey, Dissy?” “Yeah?” “Help me tuck them in?” she asked. Discord smiled tranquilly. “Of course!” he picked up Pound and Pinkie carried Pumpkin Cake upstairs to bed. Once at the door, Pinkie opened it and walked in the room, setting the twins down in their cradle. Discord smiled at both of them. “Good night. We had a great day today, didn’t we?” he said. Pumpkin yawned and Pound nodded lazily. Pinkie bounced up and down. “We sure did! But now it’s time to go to sleep. I’ll read you a story and then off to dreamland you go!” The twins nodded and Pinkie trotted over to a bookshelf. “What book shall we read? Hmm… ah!” Pinkie selected a book. “What is it?” Discord asked. Pinkie smiled and walked over to the crib. “The Legend of Discord!” Pinkie covered her mouth to keep from laughing. Discord was thoroughly shocked. “Are you sure you want to read that? And…they even made a BOOK about me?” “Yeah, why not? And yes! I borrowed it from Twilight…had a hard time convincing her why I wanted, though. She said I could keep it…she never wanted to lay her eyes on it again.” Pinkie mumbled the last sentence but Discord understood what she said perfectly. He gulped and was about to protest when-. “Once upon a time in the magical land of Equestria…There lived two sisters. Years before, they had become the rulers of Equestria and made harmony for everypony in the fertile land.” Pinkie continued, “One day, a great evil rose up among the ponies. Twas’ a strange creature with a black heart. He enjoyed having fun one day and making ponies suffer the next…” Pinkie paused and looked up at Discord who was staring at the floor. She continued, “The two Princesses, Celestia and Luna saw how miserable he was making the other ponies and gathered the objects know as the ‘Elements of Harmony’ together. With them they turned the malicious creature into stone. Peace was made once again and Equestria returned to it’s state of harmony. The end.” Pinkie closed the book. The twins were now fast asleep and Pinkie gave them each a kiss and turned out their lamp. She turned and walked out of the room without another word. Discord glanced at the sleeping babies and whispered “Good night.” Then he flew down the stairs. He found Pinkie sitting in the lobby, sniffling softly. “You…made everypony suffer?” Pinkie asked him. Discord stiffened. “It didn’t happen that way! I was just having some fun! I swear, I did NOT hurt anypony! They may have hated me, and I may have gone a little chaotic but I would never purposely HURT anypony!” he lay a paw on her shoulder. She looked up at him with teary eyes. “You promise?” Discord nodded. “Yes, Pinkie. I promise.” Pinkie smiled slightly. “You know… I believe you. You never hurt my friends. You certainly never hurt ME. You just made us break away from each other…and…I think you’ve changed. Changed for the better.” Pinkie stated and then hugged him. “And I think your one heck of a friend, Dissy.” Discord beamed and hugged Pinkie back. “Thanks, Pinkie.” “Well…you wanna get baking, now?” Discord flew into the kitchen, “Yes. Let’s get baking!”