//------------------------------// // Honesty Part 1 // Story: The Chaotic Misadventures of Discord // by DemonWriterX //------------------------------// CH. Honesty Part 1 The next day, after being condemned to his room, Discord wakes up early, an hour before Celestia could bring up the sun. Getting out of his pajamas he tip-toes silently out of his room, not wanting to stir up Fluttershy as he does a little snooping. Someone as sweet and kind as Fluttershy must have some secrets. He makes his way to her bedroom door and places his clawed hand over the doorknob. He turns it carefully only to find it locked. He lets out a small growl and snaps with his other hand magically making the door prop open. He hits the back of his head popping out one of his eyeballs into his lion paw and peers inside. He saw Fluttershy sleeping silently underneath her thick covers. Her head facing the door. He place his eye back into his socket and enters. He slithers across the floor going to her dresser beside her bed, with an eye glued on her he opens the top dresser. Inside he was taken by surprise and at first he thought maybe the filly wasn't a filly at all, a thought that made him shudder in horror, but he was swiftly proven wrong. He takes out what appears to be Fluttershy's tail. Curiosity gets the better of him; using his magic he gently lifts the blanket off of Fluttershy and finds out that she had a very short tail, 1/3 the length. She was using tail extensions! He quickly drops the blanket over her and puts her "tail" back in the drawer. Why Fluttershy was using tail extensions, he'd never know. Lifting a portion of the blanket to look at her tail again, he thought her short tail was kind of cute. He opens the second drawer to find some socks and winter clothes. He moves down to the third to discover a book, titled "My Diary" in golden letters. He immediately seized the leather bound book and opens it flipping to the latest entry. Dear Diary, I worry about Discord making new friends. He has potential to become a friend, like he has to me, in his own way. Other ponies might be wary of him but I'm glad I'm not that way. Even though he does things that make me cringe, he is sweet when he wants to be. I noticed how sweetly he was treating the squirrels when he was feeding them the other day. He really is a gentle draconiqui. He looks over to Fluttershy, sleeping peacefully with her mane in a tangle mess. He felt his cheeks flush and shook his head at her entry. He must be losing his touch, if she thinks he was gentle! but… he never been happier. He hits himself on the forehead, he really was losing it. He flips to another section in the middle of her diary. Dear Diary, I can't take it anymore! I don't want to be a model for Photo Finish, it's just too much! I wish I could just tell Rarity how I feel about all of this, but I promised her that I would do it to her. I must. I must. I must! "A model?" he mouths, intrigued. Fluttershy a model? Thinking back to how graceful she was, and how daintily she carried herself, he believed it. Anypony with looks like her was born to be a model. He turns to see Fluttershy beginning to stir, in the blink of an eye he shoves the diary back into its drawer and shoves it closed. Fluttershy starts to rub her eyes and stretch her wings, ready to starts her day. With no time to run, Discord snaps his fingers. Fluttershy yawns and blearily opens her eyes just in time to see a tray with a plate of eggs, hash browns on the side, orange juice, and even a small vase with a rose, appear in front of her. "What in the world?" she mutters, rubbing her eyes wondering if she was still dreaming. "Good morning, Fluttershy!" chimes Discord, nearly startling her into knocking over her tray. "Discord! Wh-what are you doing in my room?" she says as she pulls her bedcovers up to her chin. "I wanted you to have breakfast in bed, my dear, before we could start our day together" he smiles. "Oh that's so nice of you.... but, I can't eat before my critter friends, I have to make sure-" Discord snaps his fingers, making sure every animals had their specific food. "All done!" "R-really… its much better feeding by hand with no magic, but… I'll let it go for today, you have to learn to not use your magic all the time, Discord" "Must you be like that? You work with those animals mostly all the time, when do you even have time to relax and be yourself?" he pouts, constricting himself around her like a snake would to its prey. Fluttershy smiles patiently and pets the top of his head. "You have to understand that I have responsibilities, I can't do things on my own when I want to, one day you'll understand… besides, I don't mind, I love my animals" "I suppose…" he mutters as he unwinds himself from her, "It just seems a lot of the same old thing" "Thank you for the breakfast, Discord." Discord waves his paw at her dismissively, "Think nothing of it." "Since this is a new day, and I have a new topic about friendship to teach you." He rolls his eyes at the word, "Oh how droll, very well proceed with this new topic" "Today I am going to teach you about Honesty." He suddenly felt a lump in his throat. "Honesty is very simple, all you have to do is tell the truth when somepony needs it." "That's it?" he asks as Fluttershy begins to eat her breakfast. She nods, "Yes, that's it." She says, taking another bite of her eggs. Discord pulls at his beard in thought. "Just tell the truth...." he repeats, a smirk slowly growing on his face. "I think I understand: just tell the truth that someponies need to hear!" he exclaims, smacking his fist in his palm. With a snap of his tail, he disappears from the cottage. Discord appears in the middle of Ponyville, he immediately starts looking for way he could "spread the truth". He quickly finds two ponies sitting outside at the Clover Cafe having, what appears to him as, a private conversation. He teleports onto the restaurant’s canopy, situated right above the two mares. "I don't know how to tell him how I feel about him, Carrot Top " the grey wall-eye pony says to her orange friend. "You should tell him how you feel, he might like you too," Carrot Top smirks. "I see how he looks at you..." "O-oh n-n-no" stammers the grey mare turning a bright shade of red. "Its better if we’re just friends, I don't want to risk our friendship!" "Oh Derpy, you have to have confidence in yourself," her friend smiles. Suddenly her eyes gleam as she catches a glimpse of Derpy's crush. A young chestnut stallion with a hourglass cutie mark. Discord raise a brow as Carrot Top nudges her friend. "Speak of the dragon, there he is!" she said excitingly shaking the gray mare’s shoulder. "What?!" Derpy shrieks, turning in her seat she sees him walking right towards them. She quickly lifts up her menu; hiding her red face. "Don't say anything; just act normal! Act like we weren’t talkin-" "Hello Derpy!" chimes the brown stallion. Derpy smiles forcefully as slams the menu down awkwardly, causing the silverware to clatter loudly. "D-doctor! Uhm, h-h-hello! I'm just here having lunch with Carrot Top!" "Oh, well isn't that lovely? Well I won't bother you two girls long, I was just on my way to get a new hourglass for my collection" "Oh, wow," she smiles widely, staring dreamily at him, “that’s, nice...” she says with a nervous giggle. Discord lets out a huge grin. It was time for him to spread the truth. In a flash he appears next to the brown stallion, and puts his claws around his shoulder. The Doctor yelps in surprise. "Hello everypony!" he drawls, "Don't mind me, I couldn’t help but overhear your dilemma, and I'm here to tell you the truth.” The brown stallion gives Discord a confused look, “Dilem- what on earth are you talk-” Discord silences him with his tail, “Let me finish. The truth of the matter is that you and that grey mare there, see her right there,” he says pointing to Derpy, who quickly turning red, “should really go on a date!" "W-what?" the brown stallion stutters, blushing slightly. "We-we’re just friends," he says turning to Derpy, "R-right?" "'W-w-well-" Derpy stutters, her face turning an even brighter shade of red, before Discord intervenes. "Of course not, my lucky chap!" he grins toothily, elbowing him in the ribs, "She was just talking about you. In fact, she really likes you! and I don't mean as a friend, I mean more as a coooltfriend!" "R-really?" the brown stallion asks, but before he could say anything to Derpy, she takes off. Flying into the sky in sheer embarrassment; hot tears streaming down her face. The stallion pulls away from Discord and chases after her, "W-wait, Derpy! Come back!" Carrot Top stares blankly at the Doctor and Derpy’s receding figures. She is at a complete loss for words, not even acknowledging the waiter as he drops of the check. “Good stallion, but don’t do all the work, make he meet you halfway!” Discord dusts his hands in satisfaction, "Well, that went well! Let's see who else needs the truth around here?" He snickers as a mischievous smile dances across his mouth. Throughout the afternoon he spied, listened to private conversations, read secret diaries, and told anypony related to the untold truths. Surprisingly, he found out that he could cause a lot more chaos by telling the truth. Everywhere he looked he saw ponies avoiding each other, either because of embarrassment or hatred, or arguing with each other. "Why didn't you tell me you didn't like the gift I gave you?!" One mare yelled at her special somepony. "I did- I-I do like it! I like whatever you give me!" the flustered stallion replied. "I don't believe you!" she cries as she ran off. He strolled nonchalantly down the town square, carrying a bag of popcorn, the whole town was a spectacle to behold. If he knew telling the truth caused so much chaos he would have forced others to tell the truth about each others eons ago. Chuckling, he conjured a megaphone and placed it over his mouth and began to shout, "Listen to this every pony! Princess Celestia has an eating problem, she can't stop eating cake! Princess Luna goes into your dreams without your permission!” He bursts out laughing at the looks of horror on the ponies faces, and begins singing a little tune, “She knows when you are sleeping~ she knows when you’re awake~" he sings, letting out a laugh he makes the megaphone disappear and throws a piece of popcorn in the air, making it land neatly onto his forked tongue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fluttershy was feeding her animals their lunch when she heard somepony frantically knocking on her door. She flies over to the door and opens it to find Twilight and Spike. “Fluttershy! We need your help!” Twilight said in between gasps, “It’s Discord! He’s completely out of control!” “What?” Fluttershy gasps. “Oh my, what is he doing?” “He keeps telling the truth!” Spike replies. “Oh… but isn’t that a good thing?” Fluttershy asks softly. “No, it isn’t” Twilight retorts, “He’s telling other ponies secrets, and talking about their private conversations. Everypony is arguing or avoiding each other!" “Oh no!” she gasps, “This is all my fault. I told Discord that he should tell the truth and not lie, but I meant about him, not other ponies secrets!” Fluttershy covers her face with her hooves in shame, “I wasn’t specific enough with him. Oh, I was so foalish! I should have known he would’ve taken things so literally.”