As the coin left my hand and started floating in the air, I started to freak out a little.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" I started yelling while waving my hands in the air. "Stop right now!"
As soon as I shouted this, the coin stopped expanding and it's glow died down to a low intensity. It still remain in the air and had grown into a lumpy sphere a half foot around. Heh, I smiled considering that basically I thought of it as a magical girl transformation and had stopped it midway. Enough of that though. While it may be a cool novelty at first, I knew that having a semi-sentient woman following me around in whatever she may or may not have been wearing would have brought me nothing but trouble. I'm not an idiot after all.
Well, I kind of am, but I'm at least not mind-numbingly so.
"In all honesty, I'd rather you be a coin so I can keep you with me at all times," I followed up with.
The coin started to glow more intensely again and it quickly shrank back down into it's normal form once more. The glow then stopped and it floated back into my hand. When it landed, I felt a warm pulse from the coin, but it quickly went away. I looked back to Discord.
"You win this round Discord," I said with a voice that swore that I would win the next one.
"Silly boy. I win every round."
"Says the guy that was frozen in stone twice," I said while gesturing as such.
"Who says I didn't win in the long run?"
"Uhh... I'll have to get back to you on that one."
"Thou hast created quite the magical artifact Discord. An item that stores chaos as magic and responds to it's owners desires. Clearly you have given him a powerful object. And as such, you have given a child a toy that he cannot comprehend."
I wanted to be indignant about that remark, but I was too busy watching Twilight stare at the coin intently. I feel like I should make a crude joke about her and the coin and several sexual innuendos, but I think only Discord would get them without going into detail. Plus, even I had my limits considering what almost happened with it. Doing so might just solidify their thoughts on how they expect me to be behave in their minds.
"And why is it that you seem to make everything around you into some sort of provocative imagery?" Luna asked.
Well, so much for not being labeled as such.
"It just seems like it. I'm not doing it on purpose," I defended myself with.
"Yet, the things you don't seem to do on purpose seem to be going down a single path. It is hard not to form an opinion when the evidence trends in a lone direction."
"Maybe he just wants to be a woman," Discord said with a large display of mirth.
At that point, my fat ass actually dove behind Luna hoping to evade whatever he planned to do to me.
"As if that would help you at all," I heard him say.
"So what if-" I started, but quickly stopped.
The reason being that my voice had pitched up quite a bit. I looked down and, to my horror, Discord had turned me into a woman. That feeling that nothing needed to be arranged downstairs was a quick indicator of the fact. I then let out an understandably girlish scream. It was the most unmanly scream of my whole life. Under the circumstances, I'm just glad I had an excuse for it.
"Discord you asshole! What the fuck man!? I thought we were cool!"
"This was quite necessary," he said while casually looking over his paw. "You were getting too full of yourself. You're not unbeatable after all. You can still have bad things happen to you."
"Discord, if you don't switch me back right now I will be walking with a limp for the rest of my life because I will have broken my foot off in your ass!" I yelled with an increasingly angry tone.
"You've been a woman for a whole minute and I see you've already gotten the hang of female wrath," he said with a chuckle.
I lit up both of my hands to show that I meant business.
"Oh you're no fun," he said with a snap.
I checked around to make sure everything was back in place.
"You just genderbent me. I appreciate a good joke, but not so much when it's on me."
"All that means to me is you can dish it out, but you can't take it."
I was about to rise to his baiting, but I felt a hoof on my shoulder. I looked down a bit to see Luna give me a piercing gaze. I wanted to be petty and just give him a taste of his own medicine. The problem was that I was trying to build a friendly rapport with Luna. Sure I couldn't really remember most of what happened in the dreams she was in, but I could remember the feeling of diminished awkwardness between the two of us and I didn't want to have that go away just because I wanted petty revenge on Discord for something that wasn't permanent and only slightly embarrassing. I closed my eyes, took in a deep breath, and I let it out slowly.
And the calming effect it was starting to give me was quickly broken when Rainbow Dash came flying through the window.
"What's going on? I heard screaming!"
I was so glad I turned back into a guy before she came in. I would never have heard an end to the teasing. Meanwhile, Dash had locked onto Discord.
"I bet you're behind this!"
"Well, I can hardly deny it," he said haughtily.
"That's it! You're mine!" she yelled as she charged through the air at him.
Her flight stopped almost as soon as it began. Twilight had clamped down on her tail with her magic to prevent her from going after Discord. After struggling a bit, she looked back and noticed her tail.
"What the hay Twilight?"
"Calm down Rainbow Dash. Everything's fine."
"Tis true Rainbow Dash."
Dash looked over to Luna and her demeanor changed instantly.
"Princess Luna!" she exclaimed followed by diving to the floor and bowing.
"You ever wish that they didn't do that?" I whispered to Luna.
"Sometimes. Tis a tradition to bow to royalty. Though, I do wish my friends would stay that courtesy," she said a bit wistfully.
"And that, my pretty pony princess, is why you got a hug from me instead."
I saw her smile slightly and blush. Wait, blush? No. I'm not going to do anything but pretend that all I saw was the smile.
"So... I guess I can do anything with the coin now. Maybe it can give me an indicator of it's charge?"
There was a soft glow and the blue rim on the edge lit up. I then disappeared in a clockwise manner until it was at the eight o'clock position.
"I officially love this coin," I stated happily.
"Are you just blissfully ignorant?" Discord asked me.
"Oh please. My life is a walking 'what's the worst that could happen?' At this point I just try to minimize the fallout to varying degrees of success. For example," I stated and held my coin up in the air, "I just called this coin awesome! I hope nothing happens because of that!"
"You realize that Murphy's Law is more fundamental here right?"
"The only Murphy I like is the one from Robocop. Besides, getting this coin was going to have some kind of backlash anyway. It's actually common sense to me."
"That's a pretty negative mindset to have," Twilight informed me.
"That's my life on Earth in a nutshell. Not everybody can be awesome like Rainbow Dash here."
"Yeah, I can see that," said mare added with a very non-modest tone of voice.
"You really shouldn't think like that," said Twilight. "It's not healthy to have that kind of attitude."
"Meh. That's why I came back here. It's not the same as Earth, but it feels like it could be better and that's what I'm hoping for."
"Did thou forget? You are only here for a short reprieve until Discord recovers enough power to send you home. Though, from his display here we do wonder if his power hath not recovered enough already."
"Oh these antics are mundane at best. Staying near the Everfree Forest is definitely making things progress more smoothly," he said and then proceeded to do one of those arm flexes that made his arm look ridiculously huge. "It has done wonders for me. I bet I'll be ready to go a week ahead of schedule at this rate."
"And, I'm grossed out."
I snapped my fingers and a burlap sack flew over him followed by a series of chains crisscrossing around it and getting locked by a padlock chain. Then the whole thing vanished into thin air.
"What just happened?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"I tied him up and teleported him back behind the house we're staying at.," I answered. "I'm pretty sure that we've reached that point where we just need a few minutes apart."
"I think he just did that because he felt that he was getting pushed out by Discord," Twilight said. "Like he wasn't feeling welcome anymore."
"Look," I began, "if you all are going to end up making me go home then I feel like having some fun while I'm here. Let's start with this."
I snapped my fingers and teleported everyone outside the library.
"And this."
I snapped my fingers up in the air. After a few seconds, tufts of white started to fall down to the ground.
"You're making it snow?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"Go ahead and catch some on you're tongue."
She gave me a skeptical look, but she did as I asked. When she caught one, she blinked in surprise.
"Ice cream?"
"Hey, Discord got chocolate milk rain so I get a dusting of vanilla ice cream. Just enough to get the little fillies excited."
"Woohooooo!!!"
We all watched as we saw Pinkie Pie dash through the area with a few bowls collecting all the ice cream she could catch.
"And Pinkie Pie too I see," I added with a smirk.
I looked down to my coin to see if anything had changed with it. The rim lit up to show me the charge level on it. The glow still went from the top at the twelve o'clock position and down the left side to the eight o'clock position. It didn't look like it had changed any with what I was doing. Well, that means it caused very little chaos, it broke even, or they actually liked my little stunt enough that they really didn't mind.
"Seth, please put the weather back to normal," Twilight asked of me.
"Sure, I can do that."
I snapped my fingers again and the sky cleared up. Shortly thereafter, the vanilla snow stopped as well.
"Okay, so I've got chaos powers and a kick ass coin. I don't have a desire to ruin everyone's day with said powers. I do have a desire to show off newly acquired said powers. Now, I just need to find something to do that can combine all of those factors together without causing bad things to happen."
"You need to treat your powers with the respect they deserve."
"I do respect them. I can also abuse them like crazy. I'm not going to, but I can. I just need to figure out what to do with them."
"You should be using them to help others!" Twilight yelled in aggravation.
"I just did that with the ice cream," I replied flatly
"Indeed he did! Wasn't it just wonderful?"
One of the small snowbanks melted and the puddle it formed rose up to take the shape of Discord.
"See? That's one. I bet Pinkie loved it too."
"Yepperooni I did!"
I jumped slightly as Pinkie Pie flew out of my ear to say that.
"Holy crap, that felt weird."
"Oh yeah?" she countered. "You didn't have to plow through all of that wax!"
I watched as she shook herself off and suddenly bunches of wax flew away from her body. It was incredibly strange, but it became kind of funny when giant globs hit everyone except me in the face enough to get covered. When they opened their eyes through the gunk, I pretty much busted a gut laughing.