The Chaotic Misadventures of Discord
CH 2. Trust part 2
"I don't know about this" Applejack whispers nervously to the girls.
They had their front hooves out ready to catch Discord; who stood on the roof with his back towards them. Sharing the same nervousness as Applejack
"I don't either, Applejack," Twilight whispers, keeping a wary eye on him, "but this is for Fluttershy, and it's not a bad idea to at least try to trust Discord."
"But what if he uses his magic to turn himself exceptionally heavy?" Rarity questions, "I won't be able to keep my delicate arms up if he does." she whimpers.
"Yeah, Rarity’s right! He can do anything" Rainbow Dash argues, "What if he does trick us? I'm saying its too risky...."
"Wait!" Pinkie interjects, scratching her mane, "What are we doing again?"
Fluttershy smiles, trotting up behind them, "Alright everypony, are you all ready?"
"Ready," groan the mane five.
Fluttershy looks up at Discord, "Discord?" she calls.
He turns to her with his paw over his heart, "Am I really suppose to "trust" these ponies with my life?" he questions, "What if they drop me, or not catch me at all?” With a flash of white light he’s donning a white tunic and yellow halo with a matching pair of white wings; an angelic choir singing in the background, “I might get seriously injured, my dear." he says with a sweep of his paw.
The others roll their eyes, while Rarity mutters under her breath, “What a drama queen…”
Fluttershy raises her eyebrow as she flies up to him, "I promise the girls will catch you, you do trust me right?" she asks, placing her hoof on his paw reassuringly. His ears lower at her action giving her a small smile. A rarity for the other ponies to see.
"Of course," he says gently, before shrugging and pointing back to her friends, "but them? I doubt it"
"We'll see" She winks before flying back down. He let out a smirk to his kind friend and put his paws over his chest. He let out a breath, and takes in a breath of fresh air. How can she have so much faith in him? He couldn't put his finger on it. How can she even believe that her friends will catch him? He realize that she had faith that he would catch her when she fell. She trusted him. From his chaotic pranks and persona, she place her own life to his hands just from a single, invisible feeling. He leans back, with nothing to lose.
"Trust fall~" he sings and falls. The mane five prepared themselves for whatever Discord will conjured, their imaginations running wild with fear but instead, caught him easily with no tricks whatsoever. They all let out a sigh of relief, laughing nervously, looking over themselves to find any change to their bodies or the world.
"Well, this is comfortable" Discord grins putting his paws behind his head. "I could get use to being carried around Equestria"
"As if!" Rainbow Dash snaps and pulls away her hoof, which was holding Discord's head, making his head fall to the ground. He disappears in a flash to appear facing Rainbow Dash glaring at her with annoyance. So this is what trust gives him, an injured skull?
"Rainbow!" Fluttershy scolds, flying up between them. "That’s a fast way to lose somepony's trust! Especially if its Discord"
"Well said, my dear" Discord praise, placing an arm around Fluttershy. "You could learn a few things from her, Rainbow-"klutz" he sneers. Fluttershy pushes herself away from him pointing a hoof near his snout.
"You too, mister" She starts making him shrunk in size by her scolding. Even if her stare was ineffective against him, he could never argue with her when she is being assertive.
"You have to get along with my friends, if we're going to be friends" she said with determination, crossing her arms at the miniature Discord. He flashes back to normal size, letting out a scowl.
"Fine" he agrees with a huff.
"Okay than....Twilight would you like to go first on the trust fall?" She asks her royal friend.
"Of course, Fluttershy" Twilight smiles, she teleports herself on top of her roof. Discord moves in place underneath where he predicted Twilight will fall. Twilight glance at Discord who had a bored look on his face, he let out a yawn and looks at his lion paw finding his fingernails more important than preparing himself into catching her. She let out a low growl turning her back to him. Praying to all things in Equestria that he would catch her.
"Trust fall!" she shouts and jumps backwards. She opens one of her eyes to find herself in Discord's arms, she cocks her head at him in surprise.
"What? you expected me to drop you? Never!" he remarks shaking his head. "If I did, I would have an earful from Fluttershy" he said with a low voice making sure Fluttershy couldn’t hear. One by one came Applejack, Pinkie pie, and Rarity. All he caught with ease, the last one left was Rainbow Dash.
"I hate to say it, but Discord is actually doing well." Twilight smiles to Fluttershy as they stood side by side.
"I know, isn't it wonderful? I think I'm actually getting to him" Fluttershy inquires clapping her hooves excitedly. Rainbow Dash stood on the roof, her back towards Discord, hesitant on jumping into the arms of a chaotic being.
"Come on Rainbow Dash!" Applejack yells "you do hafta jump, you know!"
"I'm jumping, I'm jumping,....yesh!" Rainbow shouts and leans back. Discord took his chance. He let out a small smirk and snaps his talons. Suddenly, Angel Bunny was launched out of Fluttershy's cottage. He flew overhead gaining the attention of Fluttershy and the other mane four to the screaming bunny. As they were preoccupied, a black cloud appears over the unexpected Rainbow Dash. Discord rubs his claws together with glee and a bolt of lightning shoots out to her following with a loud boom.
She let out a scream losing her balance.
Discord shoots out his paw catching Rainbow Dash by her tail, her muzzle an inch above the ground.
"Goodness, you really are a klutz" he snickers, letting her go making her fall on her face. "You're lucky I caught you in time"
"Hey that cloud came out of nowhere!" she snorts, rubbing her sore face.
"What cloud?" he asks, innocently batting his eyes. Rainbow Dash whirls around and looks up at the roof to find… nothing. Not a cloud up in the sky. Before she could question it, the others had returned with Angel Bunny, who was chattering angrily on Fluttershy’s back.
"Angel, calm down sweetie. I can't understand you when you’re upset." she hushes him gently.
"He might be doing it for attention" Applejack inquires, "from you helping Discord so much."
"That… makes sense" she replies slowly, Angel thumps his foot against her and continues to cry and rant to her. Pinkie quickly spots Rainbow Dash, shooting towards her Rainbow colored friend with excitement.
"Rainbow Dash, did Discord caught you?" bounce Pinkie Pie, hopping in place. "Did he? Did he? Did he?"
"Of course I did!" Discord interrupts before Rainbow Dash could respond.
"Wow! you surprised me!" She let out a gasp. "Wow! hardly any pony could surprise me!"
"Well I'll be, that son of an apple core actually caught Rainbow Dash. I'm sorry I ever doubted him" Applejack said, elbowing Rarity.
"Yes...."Rarity starts rubbing her arm at Applejack. "I couldn't imagine someone as uncouth as Discord would be able accomplish such a feat"
"Oh that's wonderful, Discord" Fluttershy praise strolling up to him "I'm so "proud" of you"
Discord smirk slowly disappears, her tone made him feel slightly nervous. He forces a smirk on his face, trying to keep his cool. There was no way in all of Equestria that she could possibly know.
She turns back to her friends giving them her gratitude, "Oh thank you all for coming, I really do appreciate you all coming down to help Discord"
"Anytime Fluttershy" Twilight smiles taking her leave. The others follow suit, taking their separate paths back home.
Fluttershy silently walks back inside her cottage with Discord trailing behind her. Once he shuts the door, Fluttershy calmly edges Angel out of the living room and turns to face Discord.
She points to the couch, "Sit. Down."
Her stern voice makes Discord flash to the couch in an instant; sitting with his head low and hands clasped together. Fluttershy calmly went up to him flying to his head, talking to him eye to eye. Her calmness was excruciatingly unbearable.
"Do you want to tell me something?" she asks crossing her arms at him, her eyes piercing through him. He felt sweat running down his face like a leaky faucet.
"Noooo?....." he chuckles nervously, "Nothing at all my dear, lovely, kind, precious, and forgiiiving friend?"
She cocked her eyebrow, "You wouldn't lie to me… would you?"
"W- well, I- I- My! Have you done something new with your mane? It looks so sleek and shiny"
"Discord"
"No? Well, uh, your eyes are shining like emeralds this day-"
"Discord…"
"You look so lovely today, my dear, so radiant! Why, I swear I noticed Dull-ity eyeing you, she must have been jealous. Not that I blame her." he winks with a low voice.
Fluttershy taps her back hoof against the air, becoming impatatient. Discord let out a sigh, giving in.
"Alright! You caught me red-handed!" he exclaims dramatically, conjuring a pair of cuffs attach to his wrists, and a striped prison outfit. "I confess! I did it! I threw your ungrateful vermin bunny out of the house to distract you and your friends so I could get back at that egotistic self centered rainbow one. So, exact your punishment! Would you prefer flogging?" He presents a flat paddle board in his eagle claw while covering his eyes with his paw.
He had expected her to start nagging him about friendship and apologies and other boring things, not her wrapping her hooves around his neck. He blinks, wondering if she was trying to strangle him. His eyes shift from left to right in confusion.
"Okay… um..." he starts carefully, not wanting to suddenly invoke a rage fit. “not what I was expecting,” he licks his lips nervously, “uh Fluttershy..."
She finally lets go of him and sits down beside him, "Thank you for telling the truth, Discord, even if you were scared"
"Scared isn’t the word I would use" he retorts, pinching her cheek playfully.
Fluttershy gently pushes him away, giving him a small laugh. "When me and the girls went to find Angel I knew it was you; I thought you would let Rainbow fall… I'm glad you still decided to catch her" she said.
"Well in that case I- Ow!"
Fluttershy had taken his ear between her teeth and pulled down severely, she wasn’t quite done with him yet.
"Don't think I’m going to let you off so easy mister; you are still going to be punished! You won't be having any dessert for this entire week, and I trust that you won’t use your powers to sneak any sweets past me…” She pauses to think if this was enough of a punishment before deciding that, for now, a sweetless week would suffice. Seeing him trying to slide away she grabbed his other ear and gave it a small yank, “and the first thing you will do is march right up those stairs and write to Princess Celestia about today."
"Ow! All right, all right! I’m going, I’m going!" Discord rubs his sore ear and scowls, so what if he didn’t get any sweets for an entire week, that wasn’t going to stop him from having his fun.
Fluttershy lets him go and watches him grumble under his breath as he walks up the stairs. Once he disappears from sight Fluttershy shakes her head. Giggling lightly, she walks to the kitchen, it was nearly lunch time for her animals.
Upstairs, Discord slams the door to his bedroom shut, stomps over to his nightstand, pulls out a scroll and quill, and reluctantly scribbles down what he had learned.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned about trust.
My trust was lacking in my dear friend Fluttershy's friends.
But I learned that I can too, learn to trust them as well as I trust Fluttershy.
Except maybe the klutzy rainbow one. Though, who can trust the person in charge of the weather?
Your reformed draquaniquos,
Discord
P.S.
You should really restrict yourself from eating all the cake in the castle. I believe your flank might be expanding. Eat some bananas.
With a snicker and a laugh, he adds a few doodles to the bottom of his letter before rolling it up and snapping his fingers; making the scroll teleport to its desired destination.
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Celestia sits on her throne watching as the castle maids continued to clean up all of the last of the chocolate. Her brow wrinkles in annoyance as she thinks of all the trouble his farewell ‘gift’ caused. She’s brought out of her thoughts as a scroll appears in front of her. She gives the scroll a wary look, taking note of the insignia of Discord sticking his tongue out at her. She lets out a long sigh and opens it with caution. Confetti shoots out from the scroll; hitting her face and getting into her mane. She blows a piece of confetti off her nose and begins to read the contents of the scroll.
She can’t help but smile at Discord's accomplishment, no matter how small the lesson, he was learning. She knew she had made a wise choice choosing Fluttershy to be his mentor instead of herself. Even if she couldn't change who he was, a creature of chaos, Fluttershy could at least change his perspective on friendship. She continues to read, but when she reaches his postscript she felt her cheeks flare up with anger and embarrassment. She can’t help but look behind her to see if there was any validity behind his biting remarks.
She really couldn’t stand him.