Diamond Tiara placed a golden tiara on her head, and looked herself over in the mirror. “Blech.” She removed the horrible piece of headwear, and tried on a platinum tiara. “Better, but…” She threw the tiara into the pile of rejected tiaras behind her, and then placed her original one on. “As I thought. Diamond tiaras suit me best.”
“Great,” Discord said sarcastically, standing behind Diamond Tiara and looking bored as he read a comic book upside-down. “So basically, after thirty minutes of looking through jewellery, you’re just gonna settle with what you already had.”
“Yep,” Diamond Tiara responded, skipping cheerfully out of the store and making her way over to a nearby ice-cream stand. “Let’s take a break over here.”
Discord snapped his fingers, and the small wooden bench that Diamond Tiara was about to sit on transformed into a large, comfortable red velvet sofa. Discord then swam through the air towards the ice-cream stand, stopping when he saw a large line of ponies.
Raising his arms and spreading them apart, the ponies entered a sort of trance-like state, and began to part for him. He strolled through the now-open pathway to the ice-cream stand, and slammed his bear paw onto the counter. “Two strawberry sundaes, with plenty of chocolate sprinkles!”
Removing his paw, six bits appeared on the counter, and the two treats he had just asked for were now in his hands. He jumped high into the air, and slowly descended next to Diamond Tiara, who was now lying on her side on the comfortable sofa. “For you, my lady,” Discord said as he presented one of the desserts to Diamond Tiara.
“Oh, Discord! You’re such a gentle… thing.”
Discord grinned, and grabbed Diamond Tiara’s chin with his eagle claw. He then began to lower his head closer to the filly’s, bringing their lips closer and closer together….
“AH!” Diamond Tiara bolted up in her bed, panting and shuddering as she tried to make sense of what just happened. “A-A dream? No, more like a nightmare…”
“Y’all okay, Diamond Tiara?” Diamond Tiara turned her head to her left, and could just about make out Apple Bloom staring at her through the dark.
Diamond Tiara tried to reason why Apple Bloom was in her room with her, and took a deep breath, so that she could think calmly. ‘Oh yeah. We’re not in my room. We all decided to go camping together.’
“Hey, what’s going on?” Diamond Tiara looked to her right, and saw Scootaloo rubbing her eye, and yawning silently. “It’s still dark out. What gives?”
“Diamond was havin’ a nightmare,” Apple Bloom said, scooting closer to the pink filly so that she could see her better. “It looked like a pretty bad one.”
‘… Yeah, it really was…’ Diamond Tiara shook her head. “Hmph. I’ve already forgotten it. Whatever it was, it was probably stupid.”
“Great,” Scootaloo said. “So we can go back to sleep now, right?”
“Yeah…” Diamond Tiara looked down at her sleeping bag, feeling uncertain about going back to sleep. She didn’t want another nightmare like that, after all. Suddenly, she felt something on her left cheek. It was a feeling she had grown all-too-familiar with in the past few weeks. It was accompanied by a similar feeling on her right cheek.
Apple Bloom pulled away, but Scootaloo held the kiss a little longer. “G’night.”
Scootaloo also pulled back, and then fell onto her back, all-too-eager to go back to sleep. “Night.”
Diamond Tiara simply looked between the two fillies beside her with wide eyes for a few moments, before smiling and also lowering herself down onto her back. She was sure to have good dreams now. “… Night.”