Chapter Two: Making Friends and Planning Parties
I'm so excited about this story, and I can't wait to see how it ends! Now, I know some people didn't want you to be a unicorn, but there is a reason for that, and it will all make sense in the end, trust me. I also wanted to give a shout-out to seniorcopycat. Thank you for your nice reviews and your human/MLP stories to inspire me! Well, that just about covers it, so read away!
You trot down one of Ponyville's many dirt roads. It was almost nice, the fact that there were no cars, no pollution, even if it did make traveling a bit harder. All right, who can I go see? You look up at the sun to see that it is late afternoon, so everyone should be done with lunch and relaxing at this time. As you walked down these unfamiliar roads, you eventually come to what you guess is Fluttershy's cottage on the edge of a dark, scary-looking forest. As you approach, you see Fluttershy's yellow head pop up from her garden where she is tending to her flowers.
"Hi, Fluttershy," you say coolly. "What's new?" You bend over to look at her garden, which is filled with rows of pink petunias and blooming sunflowers.
"Oh, um, hello, [Y/N]," she says, crouched down and not looking you in the eye.
Raising an eyebrow, you say, "You know, I'm not going to hurt you. I just wanted to hang out."
Fluttershy, still crouching, finally looks up at you with her big blue-green eyes. "I-"
She is cut off by a creature slithering out of her cottage door unlike any creature you've ever seen. He had the head of a pony, while his body looked to be a mismatched jumble of appendages. You shiver at his sight and take a step back.
"Fluttershy, is this pony bothering you?" He asks her in a protective way, eyeing you suspiciously.
"Oh, no, Discord, [Y/N] is a friend." Fluttershy looks up at the creature without a hint of fear.
Perhaps she's braver than I thought.
"Are you sure? She doesn't look like your friend to me, the way you were afraid of her very presence." He crosses his arms, his eyes darting between you and the pegasus.
"Yes, Discord, I'm very sure. Actually, [Y/N] here just came to Equestria. She used to live in the human world. All of our friends are just trying to help her get settled in to her new home, not to mention her new body."
After hearing his friend's approval of you, the creature's face lightens up. "Well, then that changes everything." Turning to you, he continues, "Then that would make you and I both different. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Discord, spirit of chaos! In case you were wondering, I am a draconequus. Pleased to meet you." He holds out his hand, and you go to shake. As your hoof makes contact with his hand, a zap of electricity courses through your body, and you scream, pulling away quickly. After inspecting yourself to make sure you are alright, you look down to find a draconequus rolling with laughter at your hooves. "You...you should've seen the look on your face! Priceless!"
Fluttershy, however, looks down at him disapprovingly. "Discord! That is no way to treat a guest, especially considering the fact that she's my friend."
Discord finally stops laughing and looks up at Fluttershy, a huge smile still on his face. "Aw, come on, Fluttershy, she knows I was just playing with her." He grabs you and pulls you into a noogie. "Isn't that right, [Y/N]?"
After Discord finally puts you down, you look up at Fluttershy, fixing your now messy [H/C] mane. "We're friends?"
Fluttershy looks perplexed. "Well, of course we are, silly. I mean, I know I'm shy, but I'd still like to get to know you. You know...hang out, like you said."
"Wow..." You consider this for a moment. "I don't think anyone has ever wanted to be my friend so quickly. It's...nice."
You and Fluttershy smile at each other, but Discord doesn't seem to enjoy it as much. "Uh, gag. Fluttershy, my dear, must you always be so sappy? Perhaps I should make some chocolate milk rain just about now, you, know, to make the situation a little more chaotic."
Poking him in the ribs, Fluttershy warns playfully, "You better not, mister."
Smiling at this, Discord says, "Oh yeah? Watch me."
Before he could even snap his fingers, a pink shape appears behind him. "Chocolate milk rain?! You had better add dollops and dollops of whipped cream this time!"
The draconequus lets out a yell, falls to the ground, and turns around to be face-to-face with Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie Pie...you startled me." He breaths a sigh of relief.
You smirk at him. "Admit it. She scared you."
Discord blushes at the fact that he has been outwitted at his own game, then meekly says, "Did not."
"Sure, Discord. Sure." You smile, since he is giving you the response you want.
"Oh, hey, [Y/N], I never got to really throw you that pony party, so how about we go have it at Sugar Cube Corner?" Pinkie Pie interrupts.
"Right now?" You ask.
"Yes, right now, right now, right now! Let's go!" Pinkie grabs you and practically drags you off to Sugar Cube Corner, snd you barely have a chance to yell out a goodbye to Discord and Fluttershy.
"Goodbye, [Y/N]!" Fluttershy says.
"I'm looking forward to creating more chaos with you later!" Discord yells.
Smiling at them, you stand up and follow Pinkie to Sugar Cube Corner.
"Well, here we are!" Pinkie Pie says, pointing up to a building that looks like a huge candy house. "Sugar Cube Corner!"
"So, what is this place?" You ask, looking the building up and down.
"Well, I work here, it's a bakery! It has cakes and cupcakes and cookies and pastries and-"
"Ok, I get it, I get it," you laugh.
"We can have your party here, but not in the actual bakery."
"What? Where else in here could we have it?" You ask, confused.
Pinkie Pie giggles. "Well, we can have it in my room, silly! You go invite everyone and I'll go to upstairs and get the room all decorationful with my party cannon!" She tosses a basket full of invitations onto your back. "Oh, by the way, here's a map of Ponyville so you won't get lost! TIME FOR MY PARTY CANNON TO GET BUSY MAKING WITH THE PARTYNESS!"
"Your...what?"
By then, Pinkie is already inside and you're alone. With a sigh, you study the map for a moment and then walk over to Rarity's boutique to invite her to your party. As you walk, you feel a cool, fresh breeze blow by you and stir up the leaves in the trees along the path. You look up towards the sun, shielding your eyes but wondering how in the world a pony can control such a large and important being. I wonder if the other side of the world is asleep right now...or what if their world isn't even round? This new world still puzzles you, but you have no more time to ponder this.
You finally come to Rarity's Carousel Boutique, a large, fancy-looking building that was home to the white unicorn. You knock on the door and wait for an answer.
"Come in!" A voice says in a song-song voice from inside.
As you open the door, you see more magnificent dresses than you could imagine. Huge, pink, sparkly dresses. Skin-tight, pastel dresses. If you were an extreme fashionista like some of your friends back on Earth you would be all over the place.
"Oh, [Y/N], I wasn't expecting you, darling. Come in, come. I need you help, actually." You walk up to Rarity, and before you can say anything, she tosses your basket of invitations on her desk and slips a frilly pink and black dress over your head. "Hmm..." She studies you head to toe. "Too...froufrou. But not to worry dear, it's the dress, not you. In fact, have you ever considered modeling? Fluttershy tried it out for a while, but it wasn't for her. Ooh, perhaps it is for you."
"Rarity, I-"
"Oh, I have just the thing!" She interrupts. Pulling the pink and black dress off of you, she replaces it with a beautiful, much more "you" pastel red dress. It has a slight lace trim and a very elegant form. "Oh my...that is perfect. Just perfect. It works beautifully with your mane." She pulls a mirror in front of you, and you check it out in awe. Rarity is right, it does compliment your [H/C] mane. Although you don't like to admit it, you look very pretty in this dress.
"You know what, [Y/N]? That dress is perfect for you, so you can keep it," she takes it off of you and tosses it into a fashionable little shopping bag.
"Wow, Rarity...thank you. That is so generous." It's then that you remember to give her an invitation and grab your basket in your mouth. "Oh, here Rarity..." You hand her a letter in a small white envelope. "Pinkie Pie is throwing me a party later. You're invited!"
"Oh, joy! And that will give you a chance to wear your new dress! Don't worry, the other girls have dresses from me, so nopony will feel left out! I can spread the word to that they should wear their dresses!" As you nod and say goodbye, she yells after you, "Toodle-loo, darling! Don't forget about your dress!"
From Rarity's boutique, you make your way over to Fluttershy's cottage with an invitation for Fluttershy and Discord. As you approach, you find that Fluttershy is no longer gardening, but inside chatting with Discord and eating cookies. You knock on the door and everything inside suddenly goes silent. Fluttershy sure can move quietly. Without any warning, the door opens quickly and a pair of teal eyes look out at you. After she sees it's just you, Fluttershy lightens up.
"Oh, [Y/N], back so soon?"
"Actually..." You put down the basket and hand her an invitation. "Pinkie is throwing me a pony party, so you're invited."
"And I'm not?" A pouting Discord appears behind Fluttershy. "How rude."
"Don't worry, Discord, I have an invitation for you too." You hand him an envelope and notice the time on a clock inside their house. "Oh, look at the time! The party is starting in an hour, and I still have to deliver invitations to Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight! I'm sorry to leave so quickly, but I just got so caught up and now I'm behind! Don't forget to wear your dress from Rarity! Oh, goodbye!" You run off, leaving the pegasus and draconequus behind.
You trot quickly over to Twilight tree, anxious to keep a good pace.
"Hi, [Y/N]!" Twilight says from her upstairs window. "Wait..." Her expression hardens. "I thought I sent you out to make friends. So, you've already befriended every pony in Ponyville? Pretty fast for a pony who wasn't too keen on this idea in the first place."
You look up at her. "No, that's not it. Here, let me in and I can explain everything."
"Alright, but no funny business. You need to learn everything you can about friendship." She turns her head back inside. "Spike, let her in!"
The door opens and behind it is a small purple and green dragon. "Hey, I don't think we've met before. I'm Spike." The dragon puts out his hand, which you cautiously grab and gently shake.
"Nice to meet you. I'm [Y/N]."
"[Y/N]. Nice name. Are you new to Ponyville? I know just about everyone here..." Before you can explain who you are, he continues, "Anyways, I'm Spike, as I said earlier, and I'm Princess Twilight's number one assistant! I assume you've heard of her, I mean, who hasn't?"
Right then, Twilight walks down the stairs and sees you. "Spike, this is the pony from the human world that I was telling you about. The one who will be staying with us?"
"This is her?" Spike looks you over quickly, then turns back to Twilight. "She looks just like any other pony. I thought you said she was very powerful with magic so far."
Giving him a dirty look, Twilight walks over to you. "Yes, Spike, I did say that. She may look like us, but she learned a levitation spell in under five minutes, although she had never used magic before, or even known of it. I'm confident that she will be a great student of magic and will learn much."
"Anyways..." You hand Twilight an invitation.
She takes it and quickly skims it. "Ah, so I see Pinkie Pie is finally throwing you your pony party. Sure, Spike and I will be there."
"Oh, and Rarity wants us to wear our dresses she made for us."
Twilight nods, then sees the party's date and rolls her eyes. "The party is today?! Now we can all be sure that Pinkie isn't the Element of Patience. Anyways, I'll see you there, [Y/N]." Twilight walks back inside and Spike shuts the door after her with a final wave goodbye to you.
Checking your map again, you find Rainbow Dash's cloud home and run off towards it. By the time you get there, you're breathing heavily and can barely talk. "R-rain...Rainbow Dash!" You yell up at her cloud house. A rainbow mane and pastel blue head appears on top of the cloud and looks down at you.
"Yeah, [Y/N]?"
"Here, help me up with you, Rainbow, I need to give you something! How...how do I get up there?" You see that the cloud is too high to jump to, but there must be some way to get up besides flying.
"Um, [Y/N], you do know that only pegasus ponies can walk on clouds?" Rainbow Dash raises an eyebrow at you.
"Oh..." You say, a bit disappointed that you can never see Rainbow Dash's house now, since you are a unicorn.
"Anyways, what do you need?"
"Here!" You pull out an invitation and throw it up as high as you can, and Rainbow Dash, being her strong and fast self, jumps up and catches it in midair. "That's an invitation for a party Pinkie is throwing for me in an hour. Be there or be square!"
Rainbow laughed. "Now you're speaking my language! I'll be there!"
"Oh, and wear your dress! Rarity's orders!"
Rainbow flew in place and did an army salute. "Ma'am. yes, ma'am!"
"See you there!" Without another word, you galloped off to Applejack's farm with the last invitation. You knew where that was, considered that it was a huge part of Ponyville and an important place for ponies to get their food: Sweet Apple Acres. You get excited as you see trees in the distance and run straight into them, not even noticing that these trees aren't apple trees.
"Ok...I'm so lost," you had wandered for a while, but now, as you look around, you see only unrecognizable trees. Things aren't getting better, because now you're beginning to hear voices and howling. It almost sounds like wolves...are there wolves in Equestria?
Just as you begin wondering about this, a bush near you rustles and a growl emits from it. You shudder and take a few steps back, only to back up into a grove of trees that are grown together very tightly. You press your ears down in fear as a freakish creature unknown to you steps out of the bushes. It looks like a wolf in form, but instead of skin and bones, this wolf is made of trees and leaves, but still looks very deadly.
You scream and run past it as fast as you can, luckily taking it by surprise. However, as you're running, it howls to summon its packmates to the hunt. You run as fast as you can until your legs can't carry you anymore and you collapse in the forest.
You open your eyes finally in a small hut. As you look around, you see that you are laying on a mat inside of the hut. A black cauldron sits in the middle and in front of it stands a striped pony. Wait, that's not a pony...it's a zebra! The zebra looks away from her cauldron and turns to you.
"Ah, young pony, I see you've awaken. You were running from the Timberwolves, if I'm not mistaken."
"Um, yes, I was, but then I just collapsed and now I'm here...my basket!" You look to your side, however, to find your basket with Applejack's invite and your map and your boutique bag with your dress.
"Physical exertion has tired you, no doubt, but it is you who are the one that took the wrong route. Next time you have a map, do not get cocky. These old woods paths can be quite rocky.
Rubbing your eyes, you ask her, "Who...who are you?"
"I am Zecora, a zebra, as you see. And whatever in the world what might your name be?"
"I'm [Y/N], and..." You gasp. "Oh no! The party starts in fifteen minutes! If I don't hurry, Applejack and I will be late!"
Zecora nods. "Then go, little pony, and get there in time. But getting there will be easier with a map, you may find."
"Thank you, Zecora. Thank you for saving me!" You pause before leaving. "Would you like to come to my party? I don't have an invitation for you, but I'm sure Pinkie wouldn't mind..."
Zecora chuckles. "I can't, [Y/N], I'm busy today, but thank you for the offer anyway. Now go to your party to sing, dance and clap, but do not forget to check your map."
"I won't, goodbye Zecora!" You grab your basket and bag and head out. Once outside, you follow Zecora's instructions and check your map, and then begin galloping in the right direction. After what seems like forever, you see the Apple farm ahead and luckily enough, Applejack is sitting right outside.
"Howdy partner." She is leaning against the barn with her eyes closed and a piece of hay in her mouth.
"Applejack, oh thank goodness you're right here! Pinkie's party for me is starting in ten minutes, and I got lost, but a zebra helped me, so now I have to give you your invitation." You offer her the letter. "Make sure to wear Rarity's dress for you."
"Ten minutes? Hay, ya'll must've gotten really lost out there. Here, I'll be right over. You run on ahead of me while I get my dress on."
You nod and practically fly away from there, you're running so fast. Finally, you find yourself at Sugar Cube Corner. Before anyone can see you, you grab your dress out of the boutique bag and slip it out, then you take a deep breath and walk in the door and up the stairs to Pinkie's room. As you walk in, you realize that the lights are off so you can't see anything. All of a sudden, the lights flicker on, and all of your pony friends, including Discord, Zecora, and Spike, jump up with a loud, "Surprise!" You let out a small yell of surprise and then smile at all of your friends standing around you. Then you notice Applejack standing there in her dress too.
"Applejack, how did you get here so fast?" You ask, stupefied.
"Well, I got a lift," she chuckles, glancing at Rainbow Dash.
"We just really wanted you to be surprised!" Rainbow said.
"And Zecora? I thought you said you couldn't make it."
"Your pony friends had warned me before to tell you that I had to fix my decor." She smiles at you warmly.
Pinkie Pie jumps in. "Yeah! I had already told you about the party so of course you would be expecting a non-surprise party! But then, we surprised you! SURPRISE!"
"And all of our dresses look simply divine, if I do say so myself," says Rarity, who is wearing a magnificent magenta dress with lots of lace.
"Yes, Rarity, these dresses are absolutely beautiful," Twilight agrees.
"I'm so happy we're having this party together. It's very nice, Pinkie," Fluttershy says.
"Thanks, Fluttershy! And this party will be fantabulous!" Pinkie bounces up and down in excitement.
"You girls are the best friends ever! Thank you so much!" You say, and then all seven of you come in for a group hug. Zecora stands to the side smiling, while Discord and Spike hang out by the punch bowl as they watch everyone hug.
"Ugh, girls," Discord says, taking a sip of punch.
"I know what you mean," Spike agrees.
Ok, this chapter was really fun for me to write, especially because of the fact that I get to write Discord and Fluttershy together. Ever since Keep Calm and Flutter On, I've been in love with their relationships, both their relationship as friends and their relationship as a pair. I really do love the DiscordxFluttershy shipping, but I'll save that for a future fanfic. Anyways, hope you enjoyed, until next time, this is Bronygirl6729.