//------------------------------// // Discord's Game // Story: Discord Vs. Diamond // by Discorded SheepcityUSA //------------------------------// Diamond stomped through town with Silver Spoon by her side sporting probably the angriest look she had ever worn in her life on her face. Silver Spoon could practically feel the heat radiating from her friend’s rage, and it unnerved her a little. She’d seen Diamond angry plenty of times, but this was on a totally different level. She must’ve felt completely powerless at the claws of Discord; and when you are usually the one on top, that feeling could tend not to sit well. “Rrrrgh, of all the foalsitters in all of Equestria, I just HAD to get set up with HIM!” Diamond growled the final word through her teeth as she started to grind them in anger. “I know Diamond, I know he’s horrible; but I’m sort of at a loss here. We’re foals, we can’t match up to his kind of power. Best we can do right now is just suck it up, wait till your dad gets back, and then you won’t have to deal with Discord ever again...” Silver Spoon responded. Diamond turned around and gave Silver Spoon a slightly cold stare that probably said something along the lines of “Silvs, I love you and everything, but be quiet” “Silver, when I come home, Discord’ll probably have turned the entire mansion completely upside down. And exactly whose fault do you think it’s going to be when dad gets back and finds the toilet on the ceiling, or maybe the litterbox coming to life and trying to eat my cat?” Diamond asked. The sheer ridiculousness of this statement was nearly enough to make Silver facehoof, but she instead settled on a slight deadpan. “…Diamond, I’m pretty sure your dad knows you are completely incapable of pulling something like that off.” she said, stating the very obvious. It was becoming very apparent that Diamond was so angry that she wasn’t quite all there. “…Well you’re right, I guess…that still doesn’t excuse the fact that I’m stuck with Discord for two more days though." Diamond groaned, rubbing her temples with her hooves. To her, Discord was like headaches incarnate, and this morning wasn’t really helping. “Look, it’s only two days with a God of Chaos….Maaaybe if you two got on better terms he’d leave you alone?” Silver suggested. “…Silver, are you seriously suggesting that I try to make FRIENDS with DISCORD?!” Diamond practically yelled. At this point her eyes had widened and her jaw had completely dropped. She could not believe the absurd suggestion that had entered her ears. Despite the shocked look on her friend’s face and the volume of her voice, Silver Spoon’s face didn’t change. “If you’ve got a better idea, I’d love to hear it…” Silver Spoon retorted with little emotion. Diamond growled to herself and cursed Discord’s name under her breath. “…Wow I hate this situation so much…” Diamond was about to offer another possible suggestion to Silver Spoon on the subject of dealing with Discord, when she noticed a small flicker of light from the corner of her eye, catching her attention. “Hm?” Diamond craned her neck around to see around Silver Spoon’s body where the light had come from. Oddly enough, she found Silver Spoon doing the same with a rather confused look on her face. “…Diamond, you saw that little flash of light too didn’t you?” “Uh-huh….” Both fillies finally got their heads into the view of where the light had come from and looked at the other’s flank where the oddity had transpired… Only to find their flanks were left completely blank. Both fillies’ eyes widened as they laid eyes on their friend’s markless flank and they let out a scream of horror in unison. “YOUR CUTIE MARK!” They yelled at the same time. The fillies then took a look at their own flanks to see what the other was talking about, only to see that their cutie mark was gone too. “MY CUTIE MARK! AAAAAAH!” Both of them screamed again. It was no surprise that their screaming had garnered the attention of a few ponies nearby. Diamond tensed up at feeling their gaze, hoping to Celestia that they wouldn’t notice the embarrassing predicament that she and Silver were in. Just as a precaution though, both fillies stood back-to-back and flank-to-flank to obscure the public’s view of their lack of cutie-marks. “W-What the heck happened? Where did our cutie-marks go?!” Silver yelled through her teeth so she didn’t get attract anymore unwanted attention from Ponyville’s citizens. “I’m not a hundred percent on this Silvs, but I’m pretty sure that the name of the one who’s responsible for this both starts and ends with the letter “D” and their inconsistent body parts would make a OCD stricken pony want to tear out their mane…” Before either filly had a chance to utter another word, they heard a slight snicker coming from nearby. They turned around quickly, deathly afraid that somepony had spotted them without their cutie-marks, only to see that somepony indeed had. Not far from them, there was a grey unicorn colt with a black mane that was in the style of a Mohawk that didn’t appear to be too far from their age. He had a hoof glued over his mouth in a very nearly futile attempt to stop himself from laughing at the fillies’ issue. “Hey! Don’t laugh at us! We just had our cutie-marks taken away!” Diamond yelled at him. The colt only snickered a little more before answering in a VERY familiar voice. “Ooooh, I am more than aware of your little problem, Diamond Tiara~” he chuckled with a slight smirk. His eyes then turned a very bright shade of yellow and his pupils to red. Afterwards, a single fang protruded itself from his mouth. “…Discord.” Diamond said with narrowed eyes glaring at him. “…Oh what gave it away? Was it the Mohawk?” the draconequus-turned-colt said as he ran a hoof through his mane with a questioning look on his face. “…Wait, why the heck would you turn yourself into a colt? Isn’t being all made from different animals…I don’t know…more to your nature or something?” Silver Spoon asked. Discord didn’t respond right away, but instead teleported next to them and put a foreleg around Silver Spoon’s shoulder. “Well, you know what they say about never letting go of your inner child~” Discord snickered. “Besides, ponies tend to not really take the sight of me all that well. Running, screaming, possibly pitchforks and torches. You know how it is. Can’t imagine what on Equestria for though.” Discord said, scratching his chin with a hoof. “…Yeah, it’s a real mystery.” Silver Spoon said sarcastically to herself. “Alright, enough joking around Discord! What did you do with our cutie-marks?!” Diamond yelled, getting straight in his face to the point of touching noses with nothing but a look of complete rage upon her. “Yeesh, personal space please?” Discord asked. He then summoned a bit of magic with his unicorn horn to pull Diamond away from him by the tail. “Hey! Stop that! Don’t touch my tail!” Diamond continued to yell. Discord put his hooves to his ears and cringed a little at the sound of Diamond’s overly loud and high pitched yelling. “Ugh, your voice is like claws scratching a chalkboard while the chalkboard screams in agony.” He groaned. Discord then went back to stroking his chin with one of his new hooves. “Hmmm, let me see now. Cutie-marks, cutie-marks…oh you don’t mean THESE do you?~” Discord then turned his body around to show off his flanks, which to the fillies’ surprise, adorned their cutie-marks; Diamond’s on one side of his body, and Silver’s on the other. “Give those back! We need those!” Silver Spoon yelled at him in a similar way to Diamond. Discord only snickered a little at the filly’s demand. “Don’t worry, I’m not THAT cruel. You’ll get them back soon…but first , I would like to play a game~” Discord said with an ever growing smirk. Diamond and Silver looked uncomfortably at each other at the prospect of this. Discord had their cutie-marks, and from the looks of it, they’d need to meet his demands if he’d be willing to give them back. The silence lasted for quite a while before finally Diamond spoke up. “…What kind of game are you talking?” Discord then teleported himself in between the two fillies, making them flinch a little in fright. “Quite simple actually. I know aaaall about how you just love making fun of those that have no cutie mark, sooo I would like to see how you fare under similar conditions…Now, here’s how the game works. If you can stand the rest of the day without your cutie-marks AND without coming to me to beg for them back before sunset, then you shall be blank flanks no longer. Sound like fun?~” Discord sneered as he tapped his hooves together with a seemingly evil grin on his face. Diamond and Silver exchanged a few glances after hearing the rules of said game. “…That actually sounds like the opposite of fun, but…you promise to end this whole charade at sunset?” Diamond asked suspiciously. She wouldn’t really put it past Discord to turn the rules of this game against them, but their options were not very many right now. “Heehee, cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” Discord said, going through the motions of a Pinkie-Promise as he did so. Now it was official. God of Chaos or not, Discord would definitely suffer the consequences if he broke a Pinkie-Promise. He would have no choice but to hoof over their marks when the game ended now. “…Alright, you’re on.” Diamond retorted, starting to grow a slight smirk. “Heeheheee, lovely!~ No, if you’ll excuse me, I will be back at your mansion in the movie theater. Gotta catch up on the Power Ponies movie ya know. Discord said before poofing up a pair of 3-D glasses and a bucket of popcorn. “Ta-ta ladies!~ Hahahaha!” Discord laughed before teleporting out of the fillie’s sight. Diamond then let out a sigh of exhaustion. If she wanted her cutie-mark back, she would need to play Discord’s stupid game, which could most likely end up with a lot of humiliation on her part, and Silver’s. She then turned to Silver and gave an annoyed expression. “…Still think I should try to make friends with him?” “Hey, worry about THAT when we’re not blank flanks anymore! Our cutie-marks are priority right now!” Silver Spoon yelled. It kinda stunk that she had gotten dragged into this by trying to help her friend get through the weekend, but what was she to do? Diamond was her friend; she couldn’t just leave her hanging. “Right right…So the rest of the day without our cutie-marks huh?...No big deal right? Let’s not let this mess up our plans at Sugarcube Corner; it could be worse…” Diamond said with a slightly nervous smile. “Y-Yeah…hehe…let’s just not let the humiliation and shame of being markless get to us right?” Silver Spoon said with the same nervous smile. “…We’re doomed aren’t we?” “I can’t see in the future…but probably, yeah.”