Chapter Three: Date Three - Turn Down for What
Twilight opened her eyes slowly, with Princess Celestia’s sun in her face, only to find herself in Princess Luna’s bed. But as she remembered everything about last night, she smiled and blushed. Then she sat up, lazily rubbing her eyes, and then stood up and turned to see Luna sleeping in bed in a profound way. Luna did not need much sleep at night, but during the day the conversation was different. Luna was "dead" in bed, and Twilight laughed and shook her head at that. Well, I need to go now… But first…
Twilight was up the side of Luna, who was still asleep, and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Luna turned over in bed, muttering something intelligible, and then smiled in the middle of her sleep. Now I can go, the princess said mentally, leaving the room and closing the door softly, as to not wake the Princess of the Night.
Luna was… Fun. Really fun. Well, I played a video game, that’s new. Princess Luna: Check! Now… Oh no, no no no… DISCORD!
Twilight had just arrived in her castle, where Spike was sitting watching TV in the large living room full of bookshelves and some action figures of Spike’s (to Twilight they were just toys, but Spike called them that).
“Hey, Twilight!” he said, turning on the couch to see her, “Discord sent a letter to you. He said... Find him in a door out there?" Spike said confused, Twilight was expecting something awkward to come from the Lord of Chaos.
“Thank you for telling me, Spike” she went to the boy, still leaning on his knees on the couch to see her, and ruffled his hair, smiling at him and then leaving the living room, giving a quick farewell.
Twilight had a quick wash, changed clothes and then left the castle for her date with Discord, who did not seem to be anywhere. Where is he? Wait is that a… Door? the princess thought as she looked at a random door to his house. Just there, standing in there with nothing to hold it, people did not seem to pay attention to it. Well it was not the weirdest thing that residents of Ponyville had seen.
Twilight sighed and went to the door’s front, opening it and looking to… Nothing? She sighed, frustrated again, and then took a step, entering into the random door. The door closed itself and disappeared.
The princess finds herself somewhere much like the first confusing place where they had to defeat Discord. The whole floor was checkered, with various colors. With deer and rabbits with long legs running to all sides in a large herd. There were some beavers trying to cut a tree that had a… Face? And beside that tree was a small tree sapling. And was... He or she was dancing excitedly, rocking from side to side, waving his/her small soft branches.
The sky was clear blue and full of clouds made of cotton candy, some of which rained chocolate. That’s a clear signal of Discord, oh well…
“Discord?” she called for him, looking around to see a random house, which actually was not there until a few moments ago, and above it was a big sign flashing and saying "DISCORD HERE!" with an arrow pointing to the door of the house, which was apparently a normal house. Finally, something normal…
Twilight went to the house and looked around.
Nothing.
“Right here!” the voice of the chaos itself said. Twilight looked around again, raising an eyebrow in confusion, until she felt someone poking her, “I said… Right here,” she felt the hands of Discord being placed on her shoulders as Discord said that directly into her ear, playfully. She widened her eyes and then jumped in surprise, making Discord remove his hands from there and he stood with a smile as she crossed her arms just below the chest and became serious.
Both looked at each other for some time, Discord was wearing the same clothes as always, but with a brown top hat on his head. He started smiling more and more, and with that, Twilight could not be serious, she ended up giving a slight chuckle and shaking her head.
“Well, my job is done! For now…” he said, as Twilight chuckle a little more. Discord raised an eyebrow at her and tried to make a seductive look, making her stop laughing and let out a small smile, “Let’s go, pretty princess?” he bent slightly forward and offered his hand to Twilight, but before she could grab his hand, Discord snapped his fingers and a rose appeared in his mouth, she took his hand and Discord was satisfied by placing the rose in the ear of his partner.
“Uh, Discord, where we going?” she asked, raising her eyebrow at him.
“I’m… Oh! I mean… We’re going on an adventure!” Discord said this and then snapped his fingers, teleporting both of them somewhere.
When they appeared elsewhere, it was just a location on "the chaotic world of Discord". But this place had an random ice cream stand, there was no one inside, apparently. “Discord, we’re going to… Eat ice cream?”
“Oh yes! I was mistaken with the fact we were going out on an adventure. Come, let's sit down and ask for an ice cream!” Discord said snapping his fingers and suddenly a table that had errant feet came walking and stood there, it came together with two walking chairs too. Discord sat in one of the chairs, but Twilight glanced at Discord as if to say "is this safe?", but soon took a seat. “Here’s the menu,” Discord said snapping his finger again, two menus came "flying" and landed on the table in front of Twilight and Discord.
“A menu for… Ice cream?”
“Of course!” Discord said already looking at the menu, “Oh oh, look at this!” he practically shoved the menu on the face of Twilight, making her widen her eyes and then grimace.
“Is that…”
“Cockroaches in ice cream? Oh yes it is! Delicious, no?” Discord said, snapping his fingers and making a cockroach appear in his hand, shoving it in his mouth and eating it, making Twilight look at him with a confused face.
“Uh… No, it’s not delicious. Can I have just a normal lemon ice cream with no cockroaches?”
“Of course, dear pretty princess!” he made a clone of himself, which came into the ice cream van and brought a lemon ice cream to her quickly. Then Discord snapped his finger and his clone disappeared. Discord smiled to Twilight and gave her the ice cream.
“Thank you,” she said before she started eating, Discord was already eating a chocolate ice cream with a dead cockroach on top. Twilight grimaced but then began to eat.
They were quiet for a few moments, but when they finished, Discord began, “We go to the dance floor now!” and before Twi could complain, he snapped his fingers, making them appear in the middle of a dance floor with a very familiar song (unfortunately), but more electronic. Discord smiled at her and pulled her hand and began to dance with her. “Go, Twilight!” he started dancing the way he knew as Twilight watched and then looked around, seeing if anyone was there and no one was, then shrugged and laughed. Well, why not?
And then she began to dance beside him, the way she knew.
Twilight was having fun and she knew it, maybe Discord was not so bad. It was just... too chaotic sometimes, well, at least in the philosophy of an Element of Harmony. But Twilight was having fun, maybe that was the best part of these dates she was having. Fun that she not had for a few weeks.
The song ended and both stopped dancing until the Lord of Chaos snapped his fingers and a romantic song filled the place. “Can I, the great Lord of Chaos have a dance with the pretty alicorn princess?” he offered a hand to her and she just shook her head and laughed accepting the request from the chaotic man. They danced, both looking into each other's eyes, “Did you know you have beautiful eyes?”
Twilight blushed and smiled, “Thank you, Discord. You have… Good eyes too, red is a beautiful color,” she never thought she would say that to him.
Discord’s eyes widened and then he gave a smirk, showing his fangs.
Both continued dancing together until the end of the song, at which point Discord took her hand and teleported both back home.
“Thank you Discord, that was a funny and beautiful date, I loved dancing with you,” she said, avoiding eye contact.
“Oh pretty alicorn princess, don’t worry! Fun and chaos is my thing!” he said before he snapped his fingers and made a bouquet of lavenders appear in his hands, and he gave it to Twilight, she blushed again, “Here, that’s for you! I’m being kind to you, I’m not being soooo chaotic!” At least, I’ll win some extra tea when I go to Fluttershy’s house… Discord thought, “ Oh! The lavenders are because of your great smell. I love it!”
“Thank you, Discord. I have to go now, that was great,” both were out of the house, with Twi smelling the flowers. Discord snapped his fingers, making the random door that would take Twilight to Ponyville appear.
“Here you go, Twilight! Oh, one more thing…” Discord moved into his pockets, “Here!” a cockroach was in his hand.
“Ugh! DISCORD!”
“I’m howling at the moon?” he asked playful.
Twilight let out a smile, “Bye, Discord.”
Next: Sunset.
