A young CrimsonFlame soared through the evening sky… or what WAS the evening sky. It seems someone had decided to make it noon again. He sighed, realizing that someone was probably discord, he had ruled over this world since before Crimson was born, and would probably keep ruling until someone with some serious magic could put him in his place. He was soon flying over a large body of water, and he couldn’t help but to stop and admire himself. He was still a foal, but he still thought of himself as the most handsome young Pegasus to ever live. He stared into to the water looking at himself from every angle, paying no mind to the strange things happening around him.
He admired his own dark coat, and wild red main, and knew his wings could carry him anywhere he wanted to, even if discord changed everything on a daily basis. He then looked at his new cutie mark, which he had just gotten the day before. Two crossed swords tinted red. He had gotten it protecting his friends from a box that had decided it wanted to eat little ponies for lunch. He had hoped it would impress Luna, but she just thanked him for protecting her and her sister before running home. If only he had a way of telling Luna how much he liked her…
He looked up and saw a patch of the most beautiful flowers he had ever seen, with dark blue petals, and smelled like honey. He looked around to see that the large body of water was a swamp, and that no one seemed to own this patch of flowers. “If I show these to Luna, she’s BOUND to fall in love with me!” He grinned and started to head in the direction of home.
But then a nasty little thought crept into his head. “This land is run by Discord. Things change every second. What if… What if when I bring Luna here the flowers turn into something else? Or disappear entirely? She’d probably be mad if I wasted her time like that.” He landed, and paced in the patch of flowers, thinking of what he could do to make sure The flowers stayed flowers. Eventually he decided to just grab a mouthful, and if they changed into something else, at least he wouldn’t waste her time bringing her so far out.
The whole way back his heart soared almost as high as he did. He imagined the look of pure joy she would have in getting such wonderful flowers. How she would just run into his open arms, and nuzzle him until they HAD to do something else, and they would go up to his favorite look-out spot and watch the sky as I can’t make up its mind what time of day it wants to be.
Well, that was his hope anyways. Can’t blame a young colt for dreaming can you? He finally landed softly on Luna’s porch, using his back hooves to knock (he thought doing that would make him cooler) Soon a white Unicorn poked her head out “Hello?”
“Oh, um hey Celestia, I came for Luna.” He tried his best to ‘play it cool’ but he was so excited to give Luna these flowers, he couldn’t help but show it. She just giggled and ran back inside. It felt like forever before he could hear Luna coming to the door, and he decided it would be fun to hide the flowers behind his back until the moment of unveiling.
“Hello Flames, Celestia said you wanted to see me?” She looked up at him with bright eyes, and he honestly thought that if he was the most handsome Pegasus in the world she had to be the most beautiful Unicorn in the world. Even if she had no wings or cutie mark, those shimmering eyes were more than enough to make up for that.
“H-hey Luna, I was um… I was flying in the area and I was just thinking about you and um… Well, HERE.” He closed his eyes, and held out the flowers for her blushing like mad as he did so. “These are for you. I think they are just as pretty as you are!”
“Oh… That’s…. Nice… I guess.” It wasn’t the over joyed ‘I love you’ tone of voice he was expecting. In fact it was more of a disturbed ‘why would you ever thing that’ tone of voice. Confused, he opened his eyes to see that the beautiful flowers had turned into bubbly swamp muck, that smelled more of sulfur than of honey.
“Wh-what the- EWWW what IS this!” Shocked, he tried to get it off his hooves, but it stuck to him, and refused to get off. “I am SO sorry Luna, it wasn’t like this I SWEAR! They-they were flowers, and really pretty and… and… what IS this stuff?!”
Luna watched as he desperately tried to get the goo off. She knew him well enough to understand that he really didn’t mean to offer her a goo-pile of swamp muck, and felt bad for the poor colt. “It’s alright Flames, Discord changes stuff all the time, I’m sure it’s not your fault. As things are these days it’s probably just the thought that counts.” She nuzzled his cheek lightly and went back into the house. “Good night, I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“G-good night~!” he watched behind her, in a complete love trance. He absent mindedly put his hoof against his cheek where she had nuzzled him, thinking of how nice it was, and how much he wanted her to do it again. Unfortunately, that was when the smell of everything nasty in the world reminded him just what was ON his hoof, and he realized he had made a mistake as the goo stuck his hoof to his cheek and he struggled to separate it.