//------------------------------// // Chaotic Past // Story: Controlled Chaos, Chaotic Control // by Siswitch //------------------------------// “Why are you bringing this up all of a sudden?” “I was just curious what you thought about it...” “I don’t know what to say, I’m not a ‘baby’ sort of guy.” ----- To put it lightly Discords story was very one sided. The way he remembered it was he was innocent in the whole thing and everyone one else was crazy, working under the influence of the diabolical queen at that time. The story that Twilight and Rarity heard is of little importance and mostly made up so here is what actually happened for your amusement. ---- Every morning and every night the two young princesses watch the sun rise and set, dreaming of the day when they could do that themselves. The glistening sun sent waves of dazzling light across the lake they sat beside and the moonlight brought brilliant shimmers that shone like the finest pearl. “Mother said I was getting close.” Luna beamed, trotting along aside her older sister as they headed to the lake. “She said soon I’ll be able to lift the moon all by myself!” “That’s great, Luna.” Celestia said in a proud tone and didn’t mention the fact that fact that their mother had same the exact same thing to her a few days earlier. It was still fairly dark but they had memorised the path after many journeys here so they easily found the lake, barely anything was reflected in its clear surface as the moon had long since disappeared behind a mountain in distance and the sun was yet to rise, what the pair managed to miss in the darkness was a figure sprawled across where they usually sit until they where only a few feet away. They stood there confused, they had never had something in their spot before and they didn’t know if it was intelligent to be asked politely to move, they tried to make out its form in the darkness but every time they successfully identified a limb the other one seemed to contradict it. “Um, Excuse me.” “Hm?” It didn’t even bother looking at them. “Could you move please?” Celestia’s horn shone with a soft light so they could see who they were talking to, both sisters eyes grew wide as they saw the beast in front of them, the creature seemed stitched together from random animals; A grey head of a pony with two different nubby horns, a brown furry body with two mismatched wings attached to his back, two vastly different arms, a red tail and two odd legs. He turned around and scratched his chin. “I got here first.” He smiled at their shocked expressions, he never got tired of the way people looked at him. “Well...” Luna coughed, “We are here every morning and-” “Every night, I know but I got here first this time.” The creature looked fairly proud of himself as he said that. The two sisters glanced at each other confused, they’d never seen this thing before but he had obviously seen them, from the way he was speaking he’d seen them multiple times. “I’m here a lot and this spot is PERFECT for watching the sunrise and set but you two always hog it. I’m usually up in that tree.” He casually pointed to a tree near the spot. “So you’ve been stalking us?!” Luna asked, shocked. The creature rolled his eyes and shook his head. “Stalking implies you’re actually interesting enough to follow around. There’s a line between ‘stalking’ and ‘sitting in a tree.’” He grinned and got comfortable against the ground again. Luna was not happy about being spoken to that way and using her telekinetic magic she picked the creature up by its tail and threw it into the lake. “Luna!” Celestia’s eyes opened wide as she trotted over to the lakes edge, helping the creature to the shore again. “I’m so sorry about my sister, she has a temper.” “You don’t say.” He coughed to clear his throat of the lake water, making sure to stay near Celestia in case her sister tried to throw him again, “That was a low blow, using magic against a poor defenceless creature.” Celestia didn’t notice his exaggeration and narrowed her eyes at her sister. “He was being rude to us! We’re royalty, dear sister. We shouldn’t be spoken to that way!” The young mare pouted a little at her sister taking the beasts side. “You know what? You can enjoy the sunrise on your own today!” Before Celestia could stop her sister she had flown off back home. Celestia was about to speak to the creature beside her when she felt the suns warm rays rise above the hills, she turned around and stared at the sun as it rose, as did her new acquaintance, with a peaceful look. “Sorry again for my sister.” She said after a few seconds without taking her eyes off the still rising sun. “It’s not the first time I’ve been thrown into a lake.” He shrugged. “But thanks anyway I guess. I’m Discord.” “Celestia.” Her introduction was unnecessary but as one does in these situations you say your name regardless if they already know it to not seem rude. For a while the pair said nothing, just watching as the animals ventured into the sunlight and the flowers beginning to open slowly as they where graced by the sunlight. Discord grew impatient after a short time doing nothing but stayed silent, not knowing that to say to the princess. Celestia lowered herself onto the grassy ground, glancing at Discord. “What are you anyway? I would have noticed if I’d seen your type before.” She looked at his body now the light was better, it was truly the strangest thing she’d ever seen. “Oh, I’m a draconequus.” He said proudly, turning so Celestia could see all of him. “A chaotic spirit of.. Well chaos.” He chuckled a little and lay beside her. “I see, no offense but you seem pretty useless.” She smiled, “Everything looks exactly how it should be.” “Well I’m not fully matured, duh. I don’t have any chaotic... Stuff...” Compared to his adult version teenage Discord was very ineloquent, Celestia giggled a little and went back to looking at the sun. Discord smiled a little at how ok she was sitting next to a spirit of chaos like it was no big deal, especially considering she was the princess. Nothing needed to be said at that moment, even when they tried to think of something they couldn’t bring themselves to speak. The moment was fine the way it was without words spoiling it. It was only when Luna came back to find Celestia that words were brought back into the equation. “Mother says you need to come back now.” She said quietly, not looking at Discord. Celestia gave a small sigh and stood up, about to ask her sister to apologise for earlier, “And you’re not to see this draconequus anymore. I told her about him and she said he was trouble so you’re forbidden from seeing him.” The truth was Celestia never planned on seeing Discord again, of course if she saw him in passing she’d say hello but she never thought she’d see him on her own accord. The fact that she was banned now didn’t make her want to see him again, it was Discord who took these words as a personal challenge, Celestia said her goodbyes and left with Luna to go back home leaving a plotting Discord behind. ------ Pi-pi-pat. Pi-pi-pat. Pi-Pi-pat. The sound of something tapping woke the dazzling white alicorn from her sleep. Groggily she sat up in her bed to see the creature from earlier flying outside her window, tapping his talons against her stone windowsill. Celestia was too tired to be shocked so made a few questioning noises at her midnight guest. “I just thought I’d drop by and see how you where.” He slipped through her window, as these were times without glass, and sat on one of her seat cushions strewn about the floor. Celestia blinked a couple of times before slipping out of bed. “You aren’t supposed to be here. Earlier was nice but mother obviously doesn’t like your kind so... You can’t be here.” She stood by her window, motioning for him to fly away. Discord smiled and walked around her room instead. “My kind is known for wreaking havoc but I’m still very young, Celestia. I can barely do more than this.” With a motion of his paw all the candles in Celestia’s room where lit, giving it a soft glow. “Surely I’m not a threat to the kingdom.” “Fire is dangerous. You could usurp the kingdom with your army of candles.” She gave a small chuckle, finding that very funny since she had just recently woken up. “Seriously though why do you care? We’ve only known each other for half an hour, forty-five minutes tops.” Discord gave a grin and sat on a different cushion, leaning against the wall behind him. “I’m a bad boy.” He tried to make his voice sound deep. “I don’t follow rules enforced on me by a person I’ve never met.”Celestia giggled a little as his voice cracked at the end, Discord narrowed his eyes. “Anyway... The point is I want to know if you’ll join me in a small rebellion against the queen, I’m not dangerous and she has no business telling you who not to be friends with so I’m proposing we meet at least once every day.” The proposition sounded surprisingly tempting, Celestia had worked hard at perfecting her magic recently and she did need a little relaxation, something about this creature was making Celestia strongly consider taking up his offer. There was just one thing that bothered her. “I’m not sure your intentions are pure here, Discord.” She didn’t sound accusing or disgusted but she didn’t sound enthusiastic either. “How do I know you’re not going to try something?” “My my, you certainly think a lot of yourself.” He chuckled, “No Celestia, I don’t want to try and seduce you, as tempting as it is.” The last part was laced heavily with sarcasm and Celestia did not like his tone one bit. She was more lenient than her sister at this age but even she had her limits and using her own telekinetic magic she shoved him out the window, he began laughing as he clung to the window ledge, his beating wings keeping him at eye level with Celestia, “What, are you saying you want me to seduce you?!” He pushed off from the edge and swam backwards through the air, “Whatever, I’m not one to judge! I live near the lake so if you decide to meet me I’ll be there, you big pervert.” With a sly grin he let himself fall down before turning in the air, catching the wind and flying towards the lake. “Yeah?! Well...” Celestia tried her best to come up with something to say but he was gone before she could come up with anything. Groaning angrily she walked around her room, extinguishing the candles Discord had lit up. Poomf, poomf, poomf. She glanced behind her to see the candles she had just put out reigniting. She smiled slightly she lifted them all with her magic and placed them one by one into the bowl of water she had by her bed, making them fizzle out, Celestia admitted to herself that that was an impressive trick as she placed them all back in their holders. The alicorn made her way to her bed again and sighed slightly as she thought about whether or not to meet the draconequus tomorrow, part of her did and part of her didn’t. She decided to put the thought from her mind as she drifted back to sleep deciding that she’d deal with it in the morning. Despite her decision thoughts of him plagued her all night, making her night restless as something about him was just so fascinating and in such an infuriating way she just couldn’t get him out of her mind. She thought of him flying away from her window with that cocky look on his face, his stupid yellow and red eyes and the way he just barged into her room without her permission and then refused to leave. Poomf. “Also he ruined five perfectly good candles.” She muttered angrily. ----- Discords home was relatively easy enough to find despite him misinforming her that it was close to the lake, after two minutes walking around the edge Celestia noticed an odd purple rock in the distance and walked towards it. After following a trail of smaller purple rocks that lead off from it she began to notice some of the trees smelt suspiciously like soup of some kind, the grass grew more blue the closer the young mare got to the mountain a few miles from the castle and the cave entrance she eventually came to had red moss outlining it. “Hello?” She called sheepishly into the cave. “Discord? Are you in there?” “No, I’m out here.” The mare gave a small scream and sharply turned to see a smiling Discord standing right behind her. “Oh you bastard!” She muttered as she took a few deep breaths, trying to calm herself down. Discord chuckled and stroked her mane patronisingly. “Sorry about that. Did you find this place ok?” He walked into the cave entrance, still chuckling to himself. Celestia glared and followed him. “You said it was near the lake. Why didn’t you just tell me it was in the mountain?” She glanced in front of him to see a sparsely decorated living area, random objects where piled to one side and in the centre was a small fire and a few logs for chairs. “I didn’t live here last night.” Celestia glanced at Discord in surprise. “Apparently your sister had said about me being at the lake a lot. Your castle guards came and rooted me out, forcing me to find another place to live.” He narrowed his eyes as he remembered. Celestia’s eyes grew soft. “I’m sorry... I didn’t realise.” She muttered as they came up to the fire, Celestia sat herself on one of the logs and looked at her hooves, even though she didn’t tell them herself she felt a little responsible for some reason. Discord sighed a little and sat down on the log opposite her. “I don’t really blame her for telling them, still resent it though but I don’t blame her. I thought if you did decide to come after all I would leave you those rocks in hope you’d follow them.” He gave a small smile, still very happy Celestia decided to come. “But you said that you didn’t have any chaotic.. Stuff. How did you do that to the rocks? And those trees, the grass-” “I meant to say I didn’t have any chaos in me yet.” He interrupted, “I still have magic and practise for when the time comes. I’m bored most of the time so I just think of something random and do it.” Celestia nodded a little in realisation, glancing behind him to look at the stuff piled against the wall. He had no time for decorating yet, it seemed. “So you live by yourself?” She asked the obvious. Discord visibly flinched and nodded, Celestia decided not to ask any further realising the subject was touchy. “I- Um... You ruined those candles by the way.” Discord took a second to remember then started laughing, Celestia gave a small smile and giggled a little realising how funny it was. With the tension broken the two began talking about random things for a little while before moving onto to Celestia’s magic studies and how she was going to raise the sun one day and Discord’s magic and how he was going to move to travel the world and create a name for himself, hopefully becoming a legend as he spreads chaos. What surprised Discord was how ok Celestia was at listening to him talk about his chaos like it was no big deal, he guessed either she realised from the way he spoke about it that she knew it wouldn’t be any danger to anyone or that she was just a very strange pony, in any case he was liking her more and more. Eventually the two decided it was time to eat. “What is this?” Celestia nudged the plant Discord had brought her, it was a green stem with long thin vines circling up it, Discord shrugged. “I have no idea but I’ve been eating it for the past few days so I guess it’s not poisonous.” He took a crunchy bite out of the stem. Celestia smiled at that and took a bite herself, happily eating more as she realised how good it was. Discord looked at her and remembered something from yesterday. “So.. Why did you throw me out the window when I said I wasn’t attracted to you?” Celestia paused and glared at what his tone of voice was implying. “Please don’t go there.” She warned him. “Were you disappointed?” He grinned, nonchalantly taking another bite out of his food. Celestia’s laugh had no humour in it. “You wish!” She looked away from him but still saw Discords wide smile from the corner of her eye. “No darling, it’s you who wishes. Admit it, you’re curious about making sweet, interspecies love with me.” He said in a teasing voice, Celestia gasped and looked at him shocked. “You are vulgar!” She narrowed her eyes at him as he started chuckling, “Celestia, I could off phrased that in a much cruder way, believe me. You’re just a prude.” He shook his head, sighing dramatically, “What a shame it is when a beautiful mare is brought up in such a way that she hides every urge she ever has.” “I have no urges when it comes to you!” Celestia was falling for his teasing and was getting very wound up. She stood up sharply, her voice getting stern. “You said yesterday that I thought highly of myself but it is you who thinks way too highly of yourself! What makes you think I could ever fall for you?!” At that Discord didn’t say a word, he just grinned. Celestia narrowed her eyes even more as he didn’t say anything, she was going to ask him again when he stood up and made his way over to her. “What are you...?” Her question was silenced as he stood close to her, cupping her face in his paw. Celestia drew in a breath as she looked at him, realising what he was going to do next but was frozen in the spot unable to move. Discord looked into her eyes for a little while before kissing her softly. Celestia flinched as she felt him do that but eventually relaxed as she felt his other hand wrap gently around her neck, she closed her eyes and melted into the kiss as she felt small sparks of excitement surging through her body. Discord slowly pulled away and whispered softly to her. “That’s why I think you’d fall for me.” He grinned and sat down, looking at Celestia as she tried to get her mind to start working again, when Celestia shook herself awake she sat beside Discord awkwardly. “... Why did you do that?” She said quietly, not looking at him. “In all honesty you were challenging me and I love a good challenge. I think you’re cute and you’re not boring so I didn’t see any reason why not and I would off probably done it anyway.” He truthfully stated, wrapping an arm around her neck to draw her closer, she leaned against him slightly and smiled a little. Nothing in her mind had prepared her for having her first kiss with him, she felt like such a rebel kissing a creature her mother had forbidden her from even seeing, she was so light headed and happy that nothing could stop her. She felt invincible and so confident. “I think you should meet me tomorrow, instead of me meeting you.” She smiled and nuzzled into his chest, Discord chuckled at her doing that. “Sounds delightful, my dear.” ---- Authors note: My internet is still down so this was sent from my friends computer, chapters may be a little late. Thanks for your patience!