“Well, that answers that question.”
The words rolled with a dry tone from Dash’s lips, too occupied and too focused on what her eyes were seeing to worry about what her voice sounded like.
It was hard not to look surprised when watching trees dancing across the ground.
Twilight and Fluttershy watched, open mouthed, as the apple trees of the Apple Family orchard literally skipped on their roots, moving over the grass with jovialness that plainly didn’t belong in objects of wood. Various apples swung and danced on the swaying branches, twisting with the trunk that moved as its agile roots commanded.
Like a great party without music, the trees were dancing around one another. Their branches interlocked, moving them in a twisted version of a log dance. Every fall the roots made shook the ground, with the full weight of trees falling with them.
Twilight’s eyes didn’t know where to look, moving from one tree shaking the dirt from its roots to another jumping through the air. Dash was in much the same situation, expect her features were nothing but a blank mask of apathy, either too used or too surprised by what she was seeing to illustrate a proper emotion.
Fluttershy, however, was the only one with her mind focused on what she came here for. If she lost her focus, she’d lose her resolve.
That resolve was shaken, regardless, when her blue eyes settled on the creature they came to find.
“Oh, there he is.” She spoke timidly as her hoof meekly pointed beyond a trio of dancing apple trees, ripe granny smiths hanging from their branches. Twilight and Dash turned to follow her gaze, already half sure of what they would find.
Discord was there, as they expect him to be, but as per his unpredictable attitude, his actions remained one of the oddest things the pair had seen him do to date.
As the rest of the trees around him were dancing and frolicking amongst themselves, so too was the Mad God of Equestria joining the fun, leading his own band of dancing foliage in a earth shaking ball.
“Yep, that makes sense.” Dash dryly spoke again. “Figures he’d want to dance with something that can’t dance. Next he’ll be tracking to bake cakes out of mud.” The apathetic tone in the pegasus’s voice had yet to change. Twilight, however, was far more focused with her target now in sight.
“Discord!” The alicorn yelled the draconequus’s name, letting it ring over the sound of the stomping trees. She half expected him to honestly not hear her, or deceitfully ignore her. Both were likely. However, to her subtle thanks, he turned to look at her mid swing, a tree on his paw and another grasping his claw. Discord’s face beamed at the trio. In a quick flash of light he disappeared from the trees he was caught between, reappearing in front of them.
“Why hello my dear pony friends!” The Mad God spoke loudly and cheerfully, a genuine smile across his features. “I didn’t think I’d be seeing you both again so soon, what with you too so busy with one another.” His claw lightly swayed behind them.
The pair turned their gazes to see their lavender and prismatic tails wrapping with one another, entwining them. Subtle blushes stained their coats, but neither the alicorn or cyan pegasus made motion to separate. Discord lightly snickered before turning his attention to the other mare present.
“And Fluttershy!” He spoke her name with an unusual amount of joy. “I’m so glad you’ve found me already.”
“Y-You’re happy to see me?” The timid pegasus spoke cautiously. The draconequus nodded vigorously in response.
“But of course. I was going to wait until the day was dead and Nightmare Moon raised her routine reminder of her existence into the sky, but now that you’re here, I can show you just how much I’m helping out these ponies, just as you suggested.”
Those words quickly brought the pegasus back to the present.
“Discord?” The pegasus called the Mad God’s name, earning a patient gaze from his grinning faze. “Um… well… how is, if you don’t mind saying, making the trees dance helpful?” Her head fell beneath her mane, hiding much of her features as the question cautiously fell from her lips.
Discord raised a claw to his slytherin chest, clutching at it as a pained expression took over his features.
“Oh!” He cried sorely, his body stiffening as he spoke. “Oh the pain!” Panic was quick to sweep through the once timid pegasus.
“Oh dear! Are you alright?” Fluttershy genuinely asked as she trotted the few hooves distance between herself and the draconequus. “Is something wrong?”
“No,” Discord attempted to dismiss, waving his paw left and right in tandem with his head. “No it’s just… just…” Fluttershy was rising to the tips of her hooves, looking up at the Mad God with concern flooding her features. “You’re just too darn cute!”
A hot blush erupted across the mare’s features.
“Oh! It’s just too much for my old heart to take!” The draconequus writhed in the air, as if he was being assaulted from within. Fluttershy swiftly fell to the grass below, hiding beneath her mane, tail, and wings. The two other mares, however, were at their limit.
“Alright, that’s it!” The sudden declaration from Rainbow was loud enough to be clearly heard over the dancing trees, easily earning Discord’s attention. When his mis-sized eyes looked over to the pegasus, he saw her glaring up at him, one of her wings now wrapped firmly around the alicorn at her side. Their tails remained tangled.
“We’ve been following your mess all day, looking at the ponies you’ve ‘helped’ and ‘improved’.” The emphasis on the words were obviously in the realm of sarcasm, a domain Discord had beachfront property in. He loved visiting it from time to time. “And if that’s not bad enough, you’ve got me shackled to an egghead while you dance with trees!”
“And your point is…” Discord let his sentence run off as he raised his claw to one of his ears. He grabbed the edges of it, pulling at it until it expanded to a size comparable to his entire head. Dash was undeterred.
“My point is you’ve crossed way too many lines, and you’ve gotta fix ‘em, now!” The pegasus stomped her hoof as she finished. Twilight was nodding beside her.
“She is right Discord,” The alicorn agreed. “You’re doing far more harm than good with your current actions. Even if I was willing to believe you’re actually trying to help ponies, you’re going to have to go through a remedial class with Fluttershy before you attempt to… well, do what you do.”
“Really?” The draconequus questioned. Discord turned his head to look at the meek pegasus beneath him, looking at her with puckered lips and unsure eyes. “Do you agree with them?” Fluttershy was used to few things. Direct questions were not one of them.
“W-Well…” she began slowly, voice already dying off as she spoke. She was likely only heard by the Mad God thanks to his enlarged ear. “Y-You could, um… ah, be more… subtle with your magic, I suppose, that is you don’t mind.”
Discord didn’t respond immediately. Instead, he let his claw slowly slip through his long goatee as his ear shrank back to its normal proportion, normal as any other part of his body. His head slowly nodded as he looked at his reformer, moving to the alicorn and pegasus still wrapped tail in tail.
“Well, it is hard to argue with the critics.” Discord finally admitted. “They do have the final say when it comes to random acts of kindness. So, I guess I’ll have to defer to the ponies that I’ve actively been helping.”
“Discord!”
The sudden shout came from far across the field, over the dancing trees. The group turned their collective gaze to the source. Even with the jovial and nearly youthful vegetation jumping around the fields, it was hard to miss the elder mare walking towards them. Discord grinned wickedly.
“Granny Smith, perfect timing,” he slowly spoke. It wasn’t behind Dash’s hearing.
“Yeah!” She eagerly challenged. “Perfect timing is right. Now we get to hear all about how you messed up her entire orchard. What is this, the third time now?” She raised a hoof as she spoke, a confident grin over her lips. “You messed it up with chocolate rain, you flooded it with a beaver dam, and now you’ve-”
“Gone and given me some of the best crops Ah could ever ask for!”
The word caused the pegasus to freeze. Twilight and Fluttershy didn’t fare much better. Discord, true to his nature, was the oddball of the group.
“Have I know?” He innocently questioned, looking back at the trio of ponies before he spoke on. “And just how have I benefitted you today?”
“Don’t go actin’ all niave on me,” Granny Smith warned the Mad God. “Yer already earnin’ yer way back on ta mah good side. Hate ta see ya ruin it with a bit of guile.” She laughed with an elderly chuckle before letting her wrinkled leg sway over the orchard behind her, still dancing across the land.
“All the exercise yer given the apple trees is making their sap move right and fast. It’s makin’ those apples twice as juicy and Ah’d say three times as tasty, but math ain’t my strong point, so cut me some slack.” The dark chuckle from the draconequus was impossible to place.
“I did promise I would help you out, and without a single tie to your granddaughter either.” Discord pointed out with his claw, dotting the air as he spoke. “But I must agree with my friends here. The trees have had their fun.”
His claw snapped in the air, flooding the air with a familiar, but uncomfortable, blinding light. When it dissipated, as quickly as it had come, the pounding of roots had ceased.
It took only a quick glance from any pony to see the orchard was no longer dancing, but was back to the well rooted and still vegetation they were all used to. No more dancing apple trees, no more tangoing branches, and no more swing dancing fruit. Everything as still as stone.
It wasn’t good enough for Twilight.
“Wait, hold on a second.” She commanded with a raise of her hoof. She turned her attention to their pony elder before she spoke again. “Mrs. Apple, you’re okay with what Discord did just now? I mean, and excuse me if I’m being too frank, but he did just literally make your entire orchard dance out of the ground!”
“Course he did and course Ah am,” The mare responded to Twilight with a firm shake of her head. “There ain’t no better way to work out the kinks in an old body like a bit of dancing. Told Discord here that some of the trees were gettin’ on in their age, so he gives them a dancing lesson or two, and their spittin’ out the apples like it’s what they were made for.”
“It is what they’re made for.” Dash responded to the elder dryly before wiping one of her hooves down her face. “But he seriously didn’t trick you, or manipulate you, or threaten you with anything?” To the pegasus chagrin, the elder mare looked insulted.
“Now how’d ya get that idea?” She spat on the ground before motioning up at Discord with her head. “Do ya think there’s anything that guy can do ta threaten me? Ah settled this entire town and it’s gonna take more than a trouble young fool ta get my bones rattled.”
Discord was rolling on the grass with laughter. Fluttershy was just beside him, giggling.
“Now,” the Apple Family head began with a motion towards Dash and Twilight. “Ah’d best be getting’ Applejack up from her napping break. We’re gonn have quite the harvest tomorrow, and it’s gonna take every hoof available to get this done. Discord,” the mare spoke the Mad God name, winking at him as she spoke. “Feel free ta drop by any time. Ah might even let Applejack cozy on up with ya next time.”
Without another word, the mare started to slowly trot away, leaving two silent mares, a giggling pegasus, and a roaring with laughter draconequus behind.
“That… what…” Dash blankly spoke unsure of what to say or do. Twilight chose silence. Silence made her mind think faster. Too bad it was going nowhere fast.
“Well, that’s one success.” Discord noted from behind the pair, wiping a tear of laughter from his larger red eye as he spoke. The blue speck of water hit the grass and bloomed a flower in its place. “What’s next on my ‘Great Catastrophe’ list. I’m actually eager to hear more.” Those were the words Twilight needed.
“Oh, that’s easy.” The alicorn began. “Let’s talk about what happened to-”
An eruption of fire cut her off.
A short cry of shock came from her lips, earning the defensive grasp of Rainbow Dash. The cyan pegasus wrapped the alicorn in her hooves, pulling her behind the athletic mare as a small pillar of green fire erupted from Discord’s mouth. Fluttershy trotted backwards quickly, slightly mortified at the sight.
Then, just as quickly as the puff of flame appeared, it vanished. It took a moment for anyone present to see what was the purpose of it.
That’s how long it took for the letter to fall on Dash’s head.
“Hey! What gives?” She asked with annoyance in her voice rubbing at her head as she picked up the scroll from the ground, an impressive act with defensive position still in front of Twilight.
“Oh, I do believe I got flame mail.” Discord spoke matter-of-factly. “It has been quite a while since I’ve experienced that sensation though. I wonder how long it has been? Oh, who cares? There is a much more important question to ask.”
“You mean finding out who sent it, right?” Dash begrudgingly asked the draconequus, her hooves already working to unravel the parchment. Discord gave her a soft gold clap as a response, which in turn, brought the pegasus to snort in irritation.
Holding the top of paper with one hoof, she pulled down the raveled letter, straightening it for her eyes to read. Twilight, who was just beyond her, quickly began to read the text.
“Ta Mr. Discord,” Twilight awkwardly read, clearly not used to speaking in the manner the letter was written. Regardless, she cleared her throat and began again.
“This be Captain Pip, Captain of the Scurvy Dragon, most fearsome ship in the Foamy Seas. We be on our way here ta pilferin another plot o’ land. Tha crew has been grand, keepin me up with merry toons as I lead them ta vast oceans and endless adventure. They took right to me once I got Puff the Magic Dragon ta listen to me own words. I be signin off now. Lands ahoy and I gotta go. Signed Sincerely, Captain Pip Pinto.”
The letter fell from Dash’s hooves, fluttering briefly in the air before slowly landing on the ground. Rainbow remained still as stone, as did the alicorn behind her. Discord, however, was all smiles and giggles.
“Oh, that little colt is having quite the adventure, isn’t he?” The draconequus teased the pair as he reached for the parchment on the ground, easily rolling it back up as he simultaneously lifted it into the air. “Oh, it does do my heart good to hear he’s making the most of his little excursion. Had to be careful where I dropped him off at, but I’m glad those salty pirates haven’t changed even after a thousand years.” A short chuckle emanated from his throat. “Good thing I can predict the predictable.”
With a clap, the letter disappeared leaving the two mares in front of him in stunned silence. Fluttershy, however, expressed only calm acceptance and gratitude. A pleasant smile, subtle as her nature was placed over her lips.
“Hey, that’s two for two,” Discord held up two talons as he spoke against two digits from his paw. “Odds aren’t really a thing I enjoy, unless I stack them of course, but I’d have to say that they are in my favor now.”
“Yeah, well,” Dash continued to challenge, though on quickly changing ground. “We’ll see just how sure you are once we go and see the Cakes!” Her confident grin returned to her as she spoke. “They weren’t too happy when you left them, and even less so when I did. They’re probably trying to clean up your mess right now!”
“I don’t believe this.” Twilight apathetically spoke as she looked over the scene in front of her.
Just like earlier with Discord and the Apple Family Farm, the quartet was looking out and over the business of Sugar Cube Corner.
That is, over what they could see.
Ponies, dozens upon dozens of them, were all clamoring and pushing against one another in the stores, hoping to get in and find a nice treat to buy. It was nothing too new. The Cakes were always known through Ponyville and even a bit beyond the small town’s borders for having some of the most well decorated and crafted treats that a pony’s bit could buy.
What was new was having said treats flying through the air and into the hooves of eager ponies around the store.
“That’ll be another ten bits please!” Mr. Cake eagerly cried from behind the counter of his store, the register in front of him ringing with the sound of success. A mare in front of him lit up her horn as she began to dig through her bag.
“Oh!” The pony at the counter let out with a chirp of enjoyment. His aura came from within his bag, carrying the cold coins in his ethereal grasp. “I have an extra bit! So, can I add an extra cupcake on that order?”
“Of course!” Mr. Cake joyfully responded. “Feel free to have at it!” His hoof motioned into the air.
Above the large crowd in the home, complete now with Discord, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight, still spun and rained the pastry treats of the cake shop. They continued to dance and fly through the air, rounding in spirals and loops that captivated the gaze of each and every pony in the store.
Oh’s and Ah’s rose and fell from the crowd like the petals of a flower in a spring’s wind. Eager hooves reached into the air, grabbing at the treats that were in their grasp. It was impossible to miss the eager and downright excited grins on each and every one of their faces.
“Twelve more cupcakes, ready to tango!” The voice of Mrs. Cake came from the kitchen, earning the attention of the silent quartet. Their gazes turned to barn-style doors, watching as the blue mare walked the short distance into the shops main lobby before lobbing her metal tin into the air.
Twilight and Dash watch with wide eyes as the metal tray sailed through the air, arcing as any lobbed object would. But then, before it hit any unfortunate pony. It stilled in the air.
They watched, mesmerized, as the pastry and sweetly decorated trees flew from the pan, twirling through the air like miniature helicopters. The pan quickly returned to the earth pony that had thrown, who then promptly disappeared back into the kitchen with a pleasant smile still wrapped firmly around her features.
The rest of the tasty trees fell to counters around the store, where they began to dance around one another like a small delicious tango.
It took only a moment before various ponies from the large crowd in the store began to swoop them up, minor arguments beginning and ending over who could claim the pastries. The mares and stallions that had claimed their prizes eagerly galloped over to Mr. Cake behind the counter, paying up with bits at an alarming rate.
“You know,” Discord began again as he lightly tapped Dash and Twilight on their respective shoulders. “I know I’m new to the whole ‘understanding ponies’ thing, but I’d have to say that Mr. and Mrs. Cake do look like they are doing rather well.”
“Oh, I agree.” Fluttershy spoke from beside him, heard clear as a bell over the hustle and bustle of the shop. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen them so happy.”
“This is… unexpected.” Twilight confessed with a tight sigh. “But this is just one convenient outcome that you couldn’t have predicted.”
“Really now princess, I’m three for three here.” Discord challenged right back, his grin unchanging and pride undamaged. “Would you care to go triple or nothing?”
“You bet!” Dash spoke back quickly. “And I’m more than sure Zecora’s going to have a fit when she sees you again.”
“Discord, my foe now friend, it is grand to see you again!”
Twilight and Dash both felt their wings fall at the eager, and undeniably joyful, greeting from the zebra.
The pair stared at Zecora, standing at the doorway of her moved hut with a broad smile and pleasant tint in her eyes. She looked from the Mad God standing behind the trio of ponies to the mares standing at her height.
“Zecora,” Twilight spoke first, carefully. “You seem… really happy.” She noted dryly, mind either too stressed or pushed too far beyond belief to think of any better descriptors for the zebra’s behavior. “When we left you, you were in an almost platonic state of shock. What happened?”
“I’m glad you’ve asked me about this brief past,” The foreign pony spoke with the same genuine tone of joy in her voice. “But as it’s short, this tale won’t last. Shortly after two gave chase, I found myself with little time to waste. I began to maneuver to home, checking for all my spells and tomes. Yet when I finally made it in, the crowd around me made me spin.”
“That’s a good thing?” Twilight questioned, unsure of the zebra’s meaning. She didn’t want to blame her mannerism of speech, but the idea wasn’t undeniable either.
“A good thing as in the best yet, they came to me as if they were nett.” Despite the clear lack of anything actually being amiss, the amount of joy Zecora had was nothing less than disturbing to the alicorn and pegasus pair. “I expressed the fear of my home’s move, being clear that it was something I disapproved. No sooner did I release a sigh, than did a new pony catch my eye. He trotted to me through the crowd, making sure his voice was not too loud.”
“Wait…hold on…” Dash held up her hooves, slowly blinking as her mind worked. “You… found a special somepony?” The bark of laughter that came from the zebra did not agree or dismiss the pegasus’s words.
“I assure you I have not Rainbow Dash, I believe that would be quite rash.” Her head slowly shook before she started speaking again. “No, the stallion actually offered his aid, an action that eventually made the crowd sway.”
Instead of speaking of what happened next, however Zecora, turned her attention to the draconequus behind the pair.
“To Discord, the creature of many forms, one who cannot live within the norm.” The draconequus straightened himself, adjusting his scales like a suit. “Never did I think I’d say to you these words. Thank you Discord, that much you have earned.”
“It was my pleasure to help you,” the draconequus smoothly spoke, bowing with all the grace his twisted body possessed. “I assure you I only offer the finest in chaotic magic and creations.” The zebra merely shook her head before turning to Fluttershy.
“And to you as well, my pegasi friend. You have helped to bring about this satisfying end.” The meek pegasus shrunk at the words.
“M-Me?” Fluttershy spoke with timid trepidation. “B-But I wasn’t even here.” Zecora, once more, let out a chuckle of laughter before continuing.
“Without your sway over Discord’s acts, none of this would have come to pass. It is thanks to you for where my home resides. I enjoy it now for the company it helps provide.” Twilight was quick on the uptake.
“You like what Discord did, because it made you more… social?” The alicorn was already in disbelief with the words she spoke. “But that doesn’t make any sense! I thought you moved to the Everfree to avoid constant contact with society. You enjoy the solitude the forest provides, you told me that once, verbatim.”
“Solitude easies the mind, but it makes the soul unaligned. Too greatly did I judge Ponyville’s ways, so sure that mine avoided the craze. But the generosity of the ponies here; it is something I have never seen anywhere. To strangers like me and you, they are kind, thoughtful, and easy to talk to.”
“Well, I admit I was going for the convenience of location. I hear that’s all that matters with real state, but if it helps you in any other way to boot, that’s one more notch on the unexpected belt.” As if to prove his point, Discord grabbed the edges of his green scales, pulling on them like a fabric. He lifted them up as a mare would her dress, showing a black belt wrapped around his waist. It was either expected or normal to Fluttershy, as she didn’t so much as bat an eye. Twilight and Rainbow, however, watched on in silent shock. The draconequus dropped his scales back into place easily enough as well.
“It does get itchy underneath there though.” The comment earned a small giggle from the canary pegasus and striped mare. It did nothing but bring Twilight and Rainbow back to reality.
“Zecora,” Twilight spoke the mare’s name with an authoritative tone. “Can I ask you to go back inside. We need to speak to Discord now, alone.”
The content happiness that was just previously over the zebra’s face began to dissipate, leaving behind the usual façade of a wide mare. Her gaze turned from the pair to the draconequus and pegasus, who both shrugged lightly at the unasked question. When Zecora’s golden eyes turned back to Twilight, she nodded in agreement.
“I will leave you alone, just as you ask, but Discord,” she spoke with a small turn of her head. “Thank you one more for doing your task.”
Bowing her head, the zebra trotted lightly away, entering her now relocated home in the center of Ponyville.
As soon as her door shut, Rainbow began to vent.
“You know what? Fine, everything you’ve done so far has, somehow, miraculously, worked out to help out the ponies you were trying to help. Fine, I’ll take it and admit you were right about almost everything.” Discord raised his brow, but kept a knowing grin over his lips. Dash, before finishing her rant, reached a hoof over Twilight and pulled the alicorn closer to her, an action the mare fell gracefully into.
“But no matter what way you spin, casting a spell to make me and the egghead fall in love is a big no no!” The pegasus nodded her head a she was done, glaring up at Discord with a stern gaze and vicious eyes.
The draconequus, however, merely ran his claw through his goatee, looking down on the matching pair of ponies with a silent gaze. Silence from the Mad God was far more disturbing than any words he could have said, but neither the alicorn nor Wonderbolt in training were backing down.
“I see your point, and I must agree, forcing ponies to do anything is something I should deter from encouraging.” A victorious smile began to emerge of Dash’s lips, but, it was dashed like her name when Discord raised a single talon from his claw into the air. “But my dear little pony, there is something you are missing. Or, more accurately, creating.” The words caused Twilight’s head to slowly shake, her fur mingling with Rainbow’s as she did.
“I… don’t follow.” Twilight reluctantly spoke. A chuckle came from the draconequus, complete with a rise to his already tall posture. But instead of speaking commanding words down to him, he fell. All of his height disappeared as he lowered himself to a crouch, meeting the eye level of both mares. Fluttershy watched on from the sidelines, a hoof covering her mouth in polite silence. The, Discord spoke.
“I didn’t cast a spell on either of you.”
If a pin were dropped, it would have shattered the silence like a hammer to glass.
“You… didn’t… what?” Dash spoke with broken words, disbelief pouring from her. Discord, however, only savored the feeling.
“I didn’t cast a single spell on either of you.” He declared again, rising as he did so, until he towered over the pair. “Well… I did move you to face one another, but that was that. I was told and taught that being forced to do anything is wrong, so I wouldn’t force either of you to fall in love. I simply encouraged what I saw.”
“What… you saw?” Dash’s anger began to boil her blood. “What the hay are you talking about!?” While Rainbow released her anger in the common bouts her friends were used to, Twilight was instead silent as still air. Dash could only guess it was because she was trying to remember a banishment spell. She hoped it would leave an extra toasty crater where Discord was.
“Of course, it isn’t too hard to see.” Discord shrugged his shoulders, doing a small twirl before addressing the rightfully angered pair. “All I had to do was break that thick piece of ice between you two. And if there’s one thing even this old heart can admit, nothing melts the ice between a pair like a pair’s first kiss.”
“Oh my,” Fluttershy softly spoke, a hot blush running through her canary cheeks. “And I thought Dash was going to confess first.”
Her words were not ignored.
“What?!” Rainbow shouted as she twisted to look at her friend. Fluttershy became still as a rock under the fiery pink gaze of her friend. “You mean you thought I had the hots for Twilight, too?! Uh uh, no way.” Dash shook her head as she went on. “I don’t buy it. Discord, you’re lying, simply as that. You cursed us, or cast a spell on us, or… or something!” Her ranting fell into the lines of a foal.
“Oh do give me some credit Rainbow,” Discord spoke again. “I never lie to any pony I see, though I admit deceit was a trick I long loved to practice. But no, I didn’t do anything to either you or our favorite little princess here. You two were simply in love the entire time.”
“That’s horse hay!” Dash shouted again. “There’s no way that me and Twilight were thinking anything like this before we met you. Ain’t that right, Twi?” The pegasus left off as she turned her head to look at the alicorn still in her hooves.
What she expected to see was a livid mare with furious eyes, reddened with rage and steeping with anger. What she could have easily believed was a half frantic alicorn, fallen into a bit of madness with the number of impossibilities just thrown at her.
What Dash did not expect was the blushing shy gaze of Twilight, quickly avoiding contact with Rainbow.
It brought a cold pit to the pegasus.
“Well, I see you two have a lot to talk about.” Discord left off with a small clap of his forelimbs. “But I’ve had enough for today, so I think I’m going to take a few hours and head by home. Coming Fluttershy?” The draconequus extended his paw to the meek pegasus, a polite smile over his crooked lips.
“Why, thank you Discord.” The pegasus spoke gratefully, placing a hoof on the Mad God’s paw. “Oh, Twilight, Rainbow,” she called out, slowly earning the gaze of the pair.
“You two do look wonderful together.”
Without another word, the pair vanished, leaving the pegasus and alicorn in an awkward embrace with one another.
The silence was deafening between them. Their furs still intermingled and heats exchanging. For a time, the only noise they cared to pay attention to were the sounds the other was making. Dash listened to Twilight’s slow and calm breathing, Twilight being attentive to Dash’s fidgeting hooves and wings.
“Dash,” Twilight meekly spoke, almost mimicking their now departed friend. The pegasus swallowed on nothing before answering.
“Yeah Twi,” she responded.
“Do you… want to go out? As in, on a date?” A slow sigh came from the tired pegasus’ lips.
“Yeah, sure. I’m game.”
They fell back against one another. The silence, this time, was welcomed. Their conjoined heat was all they needed.