In the Mist

by NightDancer


Would you like a cookie?

"YOU'RE GOING TO GET ME CHEESECAKE AND THAT'S FINAL!" Celestia huffed as she finished her afternoon snack order. For the fourth time they brought her either donuts or some cookies. Which she still ate but they still got her order wrong, who was to blame? She was in her private quarters about to do some paperwork for the wait and so she went to her desk. There were some pages in different spots on her desk but she focused her eyes on the one which laid in the middle.

"Celesitaaa~~~~~" Said a voice coming from the walls of her room.

"Who's there?" Celestia quickly fired up her horn ready to do a spell.

"I need help... I'm blind..." From where the voice was coming from discord appeared with his eyeballs in his hands. With a sad face, he put the eyeballs back in his head and became normal. Well, as normal as the god of chaos could be.

"Discord?! what are you- oh never mind I guess there really is no use scolding you." Exasperated Celestia sat back down and sighed.

"What are you doing here discord?" She stated simply.

"Oh why it's your friend, me, always willing to help you. Is there any other reason for me to visit?" Discord asked sweetly, much to sweetly...

"Yes. You have something to say Discord, would you mind not playing games for once and just spit it out?" Celestia tried her best to play tuff cop when she heard a knock at the door.

"Order of cheesecake and a side of roses!" A servant called from behind the elegant giant celestial decorated double doors.

"Oh Celia let me get that for you." Discord opened up the door promptly, nabbed the tray of food from the servant and threw the cake and roses off Celestia's balcony. He then continued to swallow the tray and burped. Celestia, keeping her composure as much as possible, while hearing something splat on the ground from the outside and what sounded like prince Blue Blood screaming she lit up her horn and levitated a sword from off her wall and pointed it at Discord.

"Get. Out. Now." The words were simple yet full of malice. Discord looked at her and lifted his hands in the air in a surrendering position.

"Alight alright I'll leave, but first know something, I have been having weird dreams lately, you know the kind I don't like?" Discord opened his mouth to say more until...

"And what Discord and what? I am actually happy right now, so far this is the only good news you have given to me. I take pleasure in you having bad dreams. I hope you have more." Celestia said with a sickening smile.

"Oh Celestia, in my dream I saw you. I saw you seeing someone else. It was quite strange, as if I was spying on you. Oopsies!"

"Discord, first of all you don't need sleep, and spying?" Celestia Sighed. "I knew I felt strange when I woke up, well I am glad I cleared that up. Though I don't remember anything from the dream." Celestia finished lowering her sword.

"Oh yes, anyways it is fun to watch you sleep, you learn many things from a pony that way... Also I have a word of advice, lay off the cake, and be sure to watch Ponyville, I hear some strange thing's have been happening!" He replied excitedly

"What weird things?" Celestia bewildered, Discord snapped his fingers and a top hat appeared above his head.

"Well I'd love to stay and chat my dear, but oh my look it's two past 4:00! toodalooz!" With that the hat fell over discord and he was gone. leaving nothing but the black top hat which soon popped out of existence.

"Oh Discord..." Celestia sighed through her nostrils.

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Spike couldn't take it any longer. He had been working like a slave for Twilight who might as well be a tyrant. "Get me this." "Get me that." That was all he ever heard from her anymore. Yes he might be overreacting a bit since he got paid ten bits a day, which was a good price. He was just glad he was able to have some peace and quiet for once since the library was vacant for the moment. No pesky visitors and foals running around looking for a book on how to get a marefriend or a book on ponytics for a school paper on the monarchy of Equestria. He had some free time for basically the day of work was over. He thought over of what he wanted to do. It was one of those moments when you were finally free and you had trouble thinking on what to spend your time on.

"I know!" Spike beamed when he brought into his mind the fact that Twilight never finished reading to him that story when he woke up feeling strange. He ran up the stairs of the treehouse library and went up to twilights bed. He then continued to dig under her bed until he found the prize he had been lookng for.

"Yes! Alright now where did I leave off... Hmmm..." Spike continued to run his finger down the pages until he came to the sentence where he last heard the story.

"Blah blah blah... yet he was alone.. Ah here it is!" Spike found the part where he last read and started reading to himself.

So Steve the man went out searching the infinite world in an adventure to find a reason for his existence. He traveled to a temple deep in the tiger infested forests. He entered the entrance of the tunnel leading deep inside the temple. He lit himself a torch for which he used to light his way. While he walked through the walls of the temple he found ancient writings and texts others had written before him, by adventurers like himself. It displayed paintings on the walls of men and women like him, fighting off a beastly dragon.The farther Steve walked inside the temple, the more he saw. When the adventurers couldn't defeat the dragon, they all used the magic of pearls to send him to another dimension for which the dragon would stay and get weaker over time, until he was ready to be defeated. Over time the dragon found a way to use his own magic, creating large spires of obsidian topped with crystals of regeneration. With this circle of magic he created for himself a haven in which he was never to die, and never to feel pain.

"Incredible..." Spike admired as if the pages of the book were pure fact.

"Spike! Rarity is here! She says she needs some help with finding some gems?" Twilight called up to Spike from the bottom of the stairs.

"Oh cool wait for me!" So Spike ran off down the stairs and met up with Rarity. She had a little red wagon and to Spike she was looking as beautiful as ever.

"Ready to go my dear?" She asked Spike while handing him a shovel with her magic.

"Y-yeah! Anything you say!" Spike replied swiftly. The two of them then continued off in search of gems for one of Rarity's new fashion designs, and of course Spikes rumbly tumbly.