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// Shoo Shoo Be Doo To Be Sung 
// Story: Discord's Very First Faithful Student 
// by Pokonic 
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"-and that is how Equestria was made." Discord finished, proudly.

Diamond finished eating her lunch, brought the pencil in her hooves to her chin, and wrote down a roughly condensed version of what Discord just said. It consisted of five sentences, and one of the names he said had three apostrophes in it, but otherwise it was pretty simple to understand.

"Okay," Diamond replied, "I guess that makes sense. Sort of."

Discord nodded encouragingly. "I assure you, the moment you start looking at it hard enough the less sense it does!"

Diamond was mildly concerned at that, but given the way he described the country coming into existence, it was probably actually good advice. She didn't recognize some of the phrases and words he just used to describe the state of the world before Equestria, like 'squamous', but she didn't worry about it too hard.

She looked at the report Discord had willed into existence above five hours ago, when she thought that a week was a long enough wait for him to actually do something for her. It was ten pages long and had footnotes, but it read like she had written it, anyway, so Diamond didn't believe that Miss Cheerilee would question that she wrote it. It included everything she needed, and a bit extra; besides talking about the government, which was pretty simple during that time because nothing really got done with the three pony tribes bickering, it talked about each of the three tribal leaders who were around back then. The biography he put down was for Starswirl the Bearded, who was supposed to be dead by a hundred years around that time, but when she pointed that out Discord just shook his head and said that he remembered him still walking and breathing around that time, so Diamond let it slide.

The stuff he wrote about his rule was bare-bones, but he did talk about the Princesses a lot, especially about how it took them fifty years to locate the Elements of Harmony after they learned of their existence, even when they were a brisk flight away from Canterlot. Diamond questioned him about that too, but he just said that he would show her where they used to be, eventually.

Even if that didn't actually answer her question, it did interest Diamond slightly. Just slightly.

The ending was pretty short, consisting of a paragraph pretty much summing the whole unknown period of time as the last real threat against the Princesses that was already in Equestria. It also noted that Discord being turned into stone also allowed a bunch of evil creatures to threaten the country after his rule fell apart, and the whole 'Tirek' incident could probably have been avoided if Celestia just told Discord that the centaur was bothering her, but that bit was reprimanded in a way that, regardless, Celestia and Luna made Equestria a better place to live, for ponies.

'For ponies' was actually underlined and written just fancy enough to resemble Diamond's own cursive mouthwriting, and a few days ago Diamond would have wondered why Discord did that. Now, she didn't. 

She wasn't too sure if she liked that, or that she would have to talk to Miss Cheerilee about whatever where she got the information, but Diamond thought she could handle it.

She did have one question she wanted to ask Discord, though. It was a pretty stupid question, and it wasn't about anything or anyone she knew, really, she just thought he would have a idea about it. Because he, even if he was old and ugly and sometimes crazy, sure wasn't stupid. 





"Hey, are seaponies real?"

The library was mostly clean; Discord cleaned up the mess made by juggling water balloons filled with ranch dressing after Twilight Sparkle threatened to tell Celestia on him, which, really, was reasonable. 

Discord paused in his knitting; he was making a sweater, apparently made of spaghetti noodles. Diamond didn't question that he was knitting a hoodie made of pasta - it had a bowtie and little button mushrooms on it, and it wasn't really messy - which made her really conflicted, all things considered.

"Seaponies? Oh, yes, they're real." Discord replied, sounding relatively amiable, but sounding surprisingly focused on completing the noodle shirt.

Diamond, on a different day, would have let that slide, considering that they've been in the library for a hour, but she had about ten minutes to go, and, well, if she's going to get truths about the universe, she might as well get it from the guy who was probably there when it was made, anyhow.

"So, uh, seaponies, do they have little stumpy flippers, or do they have hooves?" Diamond asked, interested if the big plushy she got for her fourth birthday was accurate.

"Some have hooves, some have flippers. Some have neither." Discord stated, in a sing-songish way.

Diamond took a moment to pick up a nearby book; it was thicker then her hoof and probably older than her father.

"This book says that seaponies have a undersea empire that sunk to the bottom of the sea called Marelantis. Is Marelantis real too?"

Discord shrugged. "No, it is not; all the seaponies in the world live on a sunken isle named Kumarei Kandame, on the other side of the world." 

Diamond quickly decided she couldn't pronounce that, so she just continued to ask some more questions, because she was bored and the thought of seaponies with little flipper arms trying to swim reminded her of Scootaloo trying to fly with her little stub wings.

"Are sirens real, too? Merponies? Uh," she paused, going through the glossary of the book on hypothetical underwater civilizations she was holding, which, in hindsight, was a really stupid topic for a book, "Capricorns? Seabras? Ophiosomethings? Hippocampi? Mergriffs?"

"All of those are real!" Discord replied, "I made mergriffs myself!"

Diamond almost said 'of course you did', in reflex, but didn't say that.

"If they're all real, why does this book say that they don't exist?" she replied, pointing at the cover of the book, which had a picture of a seapony with a big red X over it.

Discord's voice took a turn towards being gruff, as if the topic annoyed him. "Well, that's a question. The seaponies don't like things that are not seaponies. They're even worse then you little ponies when it comes to that."

Diamond got the gist of what he was saying, and frowned.

"Really? Are we going to do the deer thing again?" she mumbled out, rather annoyed that her list of innocent childhood figures were turning out to all be generally terrible and kind of evil.

Discord grimaced. "No, we are not. However," Discord said, giving Diamond a almost congratulatory look, "Do you want to know the reason why the seaponies are not, to say the least, nice?"

Diamond frowned harder. "Do I want too?"

Discord raised a finger. He was now smiling. "I wouldn't see why not."

Diamond, feeling that she was bored, and ultimately just wanted to get this over with, nodded her head.

Five seconds later, she was looking at a pony face, kind of.

It was huge and she was very, very small; it was a dark color, not black and not blue but it was very dark and shiny, like it had a billion scales on it's face that each contained a little star. It's mouth was just a huge empty void with hundreds of teeth lining it, like enamel skyscrapers with tips as sharp as razors. It had gills on it's neck, and it had a small tapered horn and two big eyes that were like pools of pure white. It had no hair; it was wearing a huge crown, though, just as big of what Diamond could see of it's head. It looked like it was made of three materials; black stone, gold, and some sort of white substance. It was roughly shaped like a cone, set in three layers; the bottom part was of that black stone with some gold set it, the middle part was made entirely of the white substance, carved into weird shapes, while the top part was entirely made of gold.

Diamond, somewhere between being confused and being in awe, felt a wave of nausea when she realized that the weird orb-like shapes that lined the second part of the crown looked like a drawing of a whale skull she once saw; there were so many of them packed in together as to make them look like one solid mass, there had to be hundreds of them on the crown, and if the crown was that big then every point on it was as big as a tower and the whole thing was the size of Canterlot, and-

Suddenly, with a jerking sensation that made Diamonds eyes water, the figure disappeared, and Diamond was back in the library, with a rather apologetic-looking Discord looking at her.

Diamond Tiara looked at Discord, and just decided that it was time to go. She got up, took her stuff, the report especially, and started to head outside, for home. School was starting tomorrow, and she didn't need any nightmares or anything.

Discord didn't try and stop her even with fat teardrops clinging to his eyes; Diamond didn't especially care. He just gave her a seapony phobia, for Celestia's sake. 

Diamond, as she stomped her way home, could only bitterly hope that Discord would end up as a statue on her lawn, before this was over.