//------------------------------// // Chaotic Love // Story: A Forward Approach // by Ahiam94 //------------------------------// Celestia sat in her study. She had a large amount of papers that needed to be sort through. It was not even morning and she was already exhausted. She looked at the pile of papers and sighed as she saw no decrease in the size of the pile since she last checked. Celestia closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She opened her eyes and looked back at the papers. I think I've earned a small break. Celestia thought. Celestia walked out of her study and began making her way towards the dining room. I wonder what sort of cakes the chef has prepared today. Celestia thought, excitedly. Celestia was soon outside of the dining room when she heard a noise. She quickly turned her head. She knew exactly what the noise meant. Celestia sighed and reluctantly opened the dining room doors. Just as she thought. The chairs were all dancing and tables were on the roof. The cakes were having a food fight, using themselves as weapons. Celestia closed her eyes and focused on not letting her emotions show. She opened her eyes. "Discord," she said, calmly. "Would you please put everything back to normal?" With a flash of light, Discord appeared in front of Celestia. "Oh, come now, Celly. You are never any fun. Why don't you ever react the way you used to? I remember it like it was yesterday. Your face getting red as your food ran away from you. You were so much fun back then." Celestia looked at Discord with no emotion. "Oh alright." Discord snapped his fingers and the dining room returned to its once regal self. "Thank you," Celestia said. She walked to a chair and sat. She grabbed a fork with her magic and attempted to get a piece of cake. She looked at her fork with confusion when she realized there was nothing there. She then looked down at her plate and realized that the slice of cake was now running away from her. Again, Celestia closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Discord, could you return my cake to me?" she asked with a thin smile. Discord's once excited expression dropped into a disappointed frown. "Fine." Discord snapped his finger again, and the cake returned to Celestia's plate. "Thank you." Celestia looked down to find that her fork was now missing. "Discord." Discord covered his mouth, attempting to hold in his laughter. "Yes, Celly?" "Where is my fork?" "Oh, that old thing?" Discord asked. "I got rid of it." Celestia closed her eyes. "Why, may I ask, did you do that?" She asked through her teeth, her anger finally starting to show. "Because I replaced it, with THIS!" Discord snapped his fingers and a fork the size of Celestia fell onto the table. "Now, you finally have a fork big enough the support your appetite!" Discord began laughing. Celestia started grinding her teeth as a vein in her forehead began to expose itself. "Discord?" Discord laughing slowly came to a stop. "Yes, princess?" He asked as he wiped a tear from his eye. "How would you like to take a trip?" Discord was intrigued by the sudden question. "Where to?" He asked. "I was just thinking that it had been awhile since you've seen your Ponyville friends. So, why don't you go both- I mean, keep them company for a day or two, or six" Celestia whispered. Without a second of hesitation Discord snapped his fingers and disappeared. After a few moments, he reappeared wearing sunglasses and tropical shirt. He had a camera around his neck and sunscreen on his nose. "I think that sounds like a great idea! I'll leave now. Don't miss me too much, Celly!" With that, Discord disappeared. Celestia smiled. Finally she could get some work done. "Sorry, Twilight. But I'm much too busy to deal with Discord today." Celestia looked down to try to eat her cake, but noticed that her fork was still gone. She looked at the giant fork Discord had left behind and sighed. "How did I ever have a crush on that?" *** Twilight kept running. She didn't know where she was going. She did not care. How did Rainbow Dash do it? How did she almost trick Twilight into kissing her? She could not come up with an answer. So she ran. She ran until she could no longer move. Her legs collapsed from underneath her. She lay on an empty field of grass outside of Ponyville. She breathed heavily, trying to catch her breath. Twilight looked up to find that the sun started to rise once again. "I wonder what Princess Celestia is doing right now." Twilight thought aloud. Suddenly a white flash came from behind Twilight. She quickly turned around to see what caused the sudden light. "Helllooooo, Twilight!" Discord yelled. "Oh sweet Celestia!" Twilight sighed under her breath. "How is my favorite little teacher's pet doing?" Discord asked. "Well, since you asked, it's not going so well," Twilight replied. Twilight lowered her head back down into the grass. "Aww, what has the little unicorn so upset?" Discord asked as he started laying down next to Twilight. "I'm not going to talk about it with you, Discord." "Oh come now. I'm actually quite the good listener." Discord snapped his fingers and appeared in a suit a couch similar to Rarity's appeared underneath Twilight and Discord was holding a quill and a clip bored. "Now, tell me what has you so upset." Twilight could swear she had done something almost exactly like this to Rainbow Dash once. She let out a sigh. "Fine, I guess I can tell you. It's not like there's anypony else around here." Twilight told Discord everything. She, somehow, felt comfortable telling him all of this. All the while, Discord was writing things down on his clipboard. Every so often Discord would laugh at something he wrote. Twilight thought it better that she did not know what he had written. After altogether too long a time for Discord, Twilight smiled and nodded her head. "And that's when you showed up." "So, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that this diagram sums up everything you just told me." Discord finally showed Twilight what he was writing. It was a large drawing made from simple stick figures. It had everything in it. At the top was Twilight and Rainbow Dash in her library, Rainbows cheeks red. The next image was Twilight running from Rainbow, the picture continued going covering the important parts in Twilight's story. Twilight examined the entire picture and found that it all matched up. "Uh, yeah. I guess that's right." "See? I told you I was a good listener." Discord snapped his fingers and the couch, quill, and clipboard disappeared. "Alright, now that you listened, what do you think I should do?" Twilight asked. "Hmm?" "What should I do?" "I don't know." "What do you mean 'you don't know'?!" Twilight yelled. "I told you I was a good listener, not a good adviser." Discord replied. Wha—? Bu—? Augh!" Twilight yelled as she started stomping off. "Nice talking to you Twilight!" Discord yelled as he waved his arm. He leaned back and let out a long, lazy breath. "Ahh, always such a joy helping these ponies. I should find another one!" In a flash, Discord disappeared. *** Pinkie Pie sprawled across her bed, eyes shut as her mind raced. She rustled around constantly. She finally opened her eyes and felt confident that trying to go back to sleep would have been a waste of effort. With a sigh she slowly got up. The vision of Fluttershy still repeated in her mind. What did I do to make her sad? And how can I make her happy again? These were the thoughts that had been going through the pink mare's head all night. Pinkie turned towards her window and pushed it open. She saw that the sun had come up. It was the start of a new day. Again Fluttershy's face flashed in her head. Pinkie quickly canceled out the bad thoughts. Pinkie had no idea why Fluttershy got so upset, she also had no idea how she was going to make things right. But she did know one thing. "I have to make Fluttershy smile!" Pinkie said. She ran out of her room and headed out of the bakery. She stormed through Ponyville towards Fluttershy's cottage. *** Fluttershy opened her eyes only to feel them burn. It seemed that she had cried her eyes dry. Several animals surrounded Fluttershy as Angel slowly stroked her mane. She looked at the kind hearted animals and smiled. "Thank you all, but I'm fine, really." As Fluttershy finished she felt herself choking up. Somehow her eyes started tearing up again, and she began sobbing, as she buried her face into her couch once again. *** Sweetie Belle lay on her back looking up blankly at the ceiling. She tried her hardest to ignore the weird feeling in her chest, but no matter what she did, it was always take over any thoughts she had. She had given up on distracting herself. All she could think about was Spike and how he might respond to Apple bloom and Scootaloo. Sweetie Belle closed her eyes tight as she brought her hooves up to her chest. I hate this feeling. Why does this have to hurt so bad? Wasn't falling in love supposed to be fun? *** Rarity stitched the last thread into her final dress. She lifted her creation up with her magic and smiled at her accomplishment. "Well, it took all night, but I did it!" Rarity said. Now Rarity could finally get some sleep. She slipped off her glasses, with a yawn. She then headed towards the stairs with nothing in her head but her bed. *** Applejack looked at all of the apples that she had collected and smiled proudly. "Ah'm done, finally! Now ah can get back tuh what Ah was doin'." Applejack took a single step towards Ponyville only to stop in her tracks. "What was Ah doin'? It was somethin' tuh do with Twilight, but what was it?" Applejack sat and rubbed her head with her hooves. *** Still frustrated with Discord, Twilight walked in an empty field. She was not sure where she was. She thought she was somewhere near Fluttershy's house, but was not completely sure, she just knew she had to stay away from Rainbow Dash, and now Discord as well. Many things were rushing through her head, but the biggest question was, Why did I almost let Rainbow Dash kiss me? Did she have me under some sort of spell? Did she somehow hypnotize me? What happened? I guess it doesn't matter. I was able to get away in the end, anyways. *** Rainbow Dash looked high and low for Twilight. A smile sat on her face. I almost got Twilight to kiss me, I was close, but next time, I'll get even closer! Rainbow Dash knew that Twilight couldn't have gotten far. So she would not give up her search easily. She knew she had to be around somewhere, and she would not stop until she found her. *** Celestia let out a relaxed breath. She felt so happy. There was silence. No floating chairs, no random explosions, and no Discord. She was starting to wonder if bringing back the draconequus was such a good idea after all. She heard a knock on her door. "Come in." Celestia called out. Very slowly the door started to open. Celestia then saw a cautious Luna poke her head in. "Sister? What are you doing?" Luna looked over at her sister and smile. "Sorry, it's just that I've yet to see Discord yet and usually that means he's booby trapped the doors. And I really didn't want to set one off." Luna explained. Celestia gave out a small chuckle. "It's okay, sister. Discord won't be bothering us today. I sent him out." Luna instantly started smiling. "Really!?" Celestia nodded in response. "Oh, most wonderful of days!" Luna cheered. *** Spike looked out the library window to see that the sun was rising. "I guess Twilight isn't going to be coming home anytime soon." Spike assumed. He did not really mind the absence of the unicorn. It just made the library quieter and easier to clean up. "Still," Spike said. "I wonder what was up with Sweetie Belle. Did it have something to do with the way Apple bloom and Scootaloo acted just now?" Spike pondered for a second. "Meh, oh well." He shrugged. *** Twilight stopped. She figured she was close to Fluttershy's cottage, but she did not really think she would bump into it. Twilight gazed at the cottage and images of the pegasus flashed in her head. She's so pretty. I should drop in and say hello. I'm here already. With her mind made up, Twilight headed up the entryway steps. She brought up a hoof and knocked on the door. Fluttershy shot up. "Whuh!? Who's there?" As quickly as she could Fluttershy rubbed the tears from her eyes and fixed her mane. She headed for the door and opened it. "Oh, hello Twilight. What brings you here?" "Hi, Fluttershy. I was just in the neighborhood and I thought I'd say hello," Twilight explained. "Oh, that was nice of you. Would you like to come in?" Fluttershy offered. "Thank you, Fluttershy," Twilight said as she stepped into the cottage.