//------------------------------// // Discord // Story: Becoming Human // by Brinde //------------------------------// Hello my dear readers, it is I! Discord, who has found it delightful to take over this next segment without the scholars or scribes looking! I don’t see why I should be excluded from doing so, after all this part, stars the one and only me after all, so it’s only reasonable that I should be the one to edit and change things the way I see fit. What’s that? You didn’t know, that I knew this existed? Of course I knew, besides why would I ignore something that has my name in nice big bold letters? Now lets see where was this left off… Twilight was sent to the dream realm, yadda, yadda, yadda. Dealt with herself, so on and so forth… returned to Luna…  Well it certainly would look like my entrance is going to come later… Hmmmm, ah yes here we are, and now my dear viewers, or shall I say readers? Listeners maybe? Which ever the case I present to you the continuation of the story.   Twilight was smiling at Luna, (how sweet, those two should really get a room or something.) “I chose Daybreak, well that is I chose me…” Twilight frowned a bit. “I mean that’s what that version of myself called herself… anyways it wasn’t as easy as you said it was going to be.” Luna raised an eyebrow at this. “Did I ever say it was going to be easy? I believe I only said that you’ll know which one to chose.” “It took a while you know… I never wanted to admit she was right, I never wanted to admit… to admit that I had those desires…” Twilight frowned as she thought about this before finally sighing. “You know I’ve never really been one to desire more power, or if I did I never really dwelt on it, so to see that hidden side of myself…” Twilight trailed off. “The funny thing about power Twilight Sparkle, and take this from someone who personally knows. Is that it’s always there, no matter what you do, think, or feel, that basic desire for power is always there. I once thought as you did, I thought it was perfectly ok to live within my Sister's shadow, that it was ok to not be as loved as she was. Regardless what the tales may tell, I wanted acknowledgement, I wanted power.” A slight smile crossed Princess Lunas lips. (Dear readers, this current moment is brought to you by Princess Luna, the Princess who could. Yours truly, Discord.) The scenery began to change as Princess Luna finally stood up. “In a sense I admire your resolve, and willingness to accept even the hardest of things in yourself. It was after all what I could not do, instead because of my unwillingness to accept what was a part of me, it festered and boiled over. You Twilight Sparkle, were able to accept who you are now, and that will come to help you. Enough on all this, you have done well, and Discord has been insistent on your return for quite sometime.” Twilight couldn’t help but wonder how much regret and guilt that Luna constantly had to fight through, she wanted to reach out to comfort her, but didn’t know how. It was however, Luna’s last comment that snapped Twilight Sparkle out of it. “Wait Discord? What do you mean he’s been insistent on my return?” A slight smirk appeared on Luna’s face. “It appears, you have worried your friends enough for Discord to take… notice.” (Oh I’ll get Luna back for this.) Twilight looked thoroughly confused now. “Wait, wait, wait, what does my friends concern for me have to do with Discord?” A slight chuckle. “Well you see, despite his chaotic exterior and penchant for mischief, deep inside he’s like a big living teddy bear, that would hate to see anything bad happen to his so called ‘friends’ so of course he’d ask me to return you on the behalf of your friends.” Luna said while holding back a mischievous grin.     (Oh I’ll definitely be getting her back for this one, how dare she make me seem all sappy!) Ever so slowly, and with a longer than normal pause, Twilight Sparkle finally responded not quite exactly sure what was going on. “I… see?” Before finally letting out a slight sigh, and a small smile towards Luna. “You know if you ever need someone to talk to… I’ll there for you right?” Luna smiled before placing her hand on Twilights shoulder. “I know Twilight Sparkle, I know, but for now I must send you back, we’ll be seeing each other soon enough.” With that being said, everything vanished, including Princess Luna. When Twilight finally came to, the first thing she saw was Discord… in a dress. Blinking several times before she finally decided to rub her eyes, if only to make sure what she was seeing wasn’t a dream. “Discord… why are you wearing one of Rarity’s dresses?” She asked once she was sure it wasn’t all a dream. “What no hello? No good to see you? No hug or greeting at all? Why Twilight, I’m hurt, truly, I thought friends were suppose to be all nice and chummy with each other, isn’t that so?” He replied with his usual… mannerisms, as he went to pinch Twilights cheek, before popping back to his upside down chair, upon which he sat on the bottom, now rightside up part of the chair. “Besides, I thought this dress would make me feel pretty, don’t you think this dress makes me look pretty?” A slight twitch or two upon Twilights left eye, before she did her breathing exercise. “Oh fine. Hello Discord, how are you, I trust you’ve been doing well? Nice to see that you’ve also become a human, even though I have no idea how you managed that. Now perhaps you can tell me why you’re in Rarity’s dress, and why none of my friends are here.” It took everything in her almost to say it all politely, without grating on her teeth as she did so. “Why it’s good to see you too Twilight Sparkle, I’ve been doing great, thanks for asking, I was beginning to be worried you know, I mean you never call, you never write, you never visit.” Discord replied oh so cheerfully. “As to how I became a human, well you see I have this habit of tasting magic, and when everything was changing all of a sudden and without warning, it was absolutely beautiful, and I just had to taste it.” Before Discord could continue onto anything else, Twilight held up a hand. “Wait, you can taste magic? What does magic even taste like? Also I don’t know where you live so I can’t even do any of those things” She answered with another automatic twitch.   “Depends on the magic my dear Twilight, in this case it was spicy sweet with some fizz and sparkles. Now as I was saying, the reason I’m wearing this dress, besides feeling pretty, was merely due to your friends outburst when you disappeared and I couldn’t help myself.” “I disappeared? What do you mean I disappeared?” Twilight asked in startlement. “What you didn’t know?” Discord chuckled slightly. “Of course you didn’t, after all you hardly know anything about Princess Luna…” Narrowing her eyes slightly. “What are you talking about?” Twilight asked, with a slight irritation in her voice. “Luna took you to her own personal dreamscape, one moment you collapsed, the next moment, poof you were gone.” He replied with a dramatic hand act that demonstrated disappearing. “Oh you should have seen their faces, it was absolutely priceless.” “So it wasn’t a dream?” Twilight asked clearly a little more confused now. “Well Yes and No, but that’s something you’ll have to ask Princess Luna about now isn’t it?” Discord replied with a smirk. “Now where was I… Oh yes! Your friends, the look on their faces when I appeared in your place, it was delightful.” Discord chuckled slightly. “Of course they all decided that I was the cause of this, as if I would sort to such petty tricks, making you disappear… oh please, there are more interesting things I could have done, like breaking out into a musical number and sending you to fetch a flower.” Twilight arched her eyebrow at this. “A… Flower?” “Yes well… perhaps in a different lifetime.” Discord coughed slightly before he continued. “I of course, as the… good friend, that I am, isn’t that right Twilight? Decided to assure them that no harm had come to you, after all, you were with a Princess, how could any harm come to you hmmm?” “Riiiiight, but what does any of this have to do with you wearing a dress?” Twilight asked with an arched eyebrow. “Really Twilight, you can be such a stick in the mud sometimes, even Celestia knows how to have more fun than you. Besides I thought you were suppose to be the observant one, it’s not like I didn’t give you a big enough clue.” Discord said with a slight pout. “I’m not here to entertain you Discord, so excuse me for a lack of response to your sudden choice of clothing.” Twilight replied with a little more sarcasm than previously. “Oh but that’s where you’re wrong, it just presents a new challenge for me to become entertained. A shame really, Rarity practically fainted when she saw it, alas Celestia intervened and I went to get you, after all we’re all just one big family.” Discord grinned as he watched Twilights eyes widen. Finding out this information, Twilights voice raised several octaves as she nearly shouted. “Celestia’s back?! Why didn’t you tell me?”   Discords clothes began to change into something that revealed a deranged nobleman, as he merely shook his finger. “Despite what you think Twilight, I know you, had I told you, you would have gone straight to her all while not bothering to listen to some crucial information that I have… conveniently failed to mention to anyone else.” He grinned, as he rested on a strange looking staff while watching Twilight, becoming amused once again. Narrowing her eyes at Discord. “And just what information would this be?” Twilight asked with slight annoyance. “Out in the badlands, where nothing ever grows, a forest appeared, from where? This one knows.” Discord smirked. “I believe it would be in your best interest to travel to said new found forest, I hear the residents within have valuable knowledge, and skills unique to this… situation.”   “And that would be what exactly?” Twilight asked as she sighed. “Now, if I told you all the answers you wouldn’t learn anything now would you?” He replied as he waved his hand in the air as a small vortex began to appear. “Does that mean you also know what caused all this?” Twilight asked curiously “Ah, I was wondering how long it would take you to ask that question.” As the vortex kept growing, Discord chuckled slightly as the portal opened up. “Yes I know, and yes I have already answered this inevitable question, but only in my way.” “Wait, when did you give me the answer?” Twilight asked as the portal began to swallow her. The last thing she heard was Discords amused voice saying “That’s for me to know, and you to figure out, it wouldn’t be entertaining any other way. Oh and say hello to Celestia for me, we really should get a cup of tea together, I happen to know this fantastic place right in the middle of the woods.” Before Twilight could say anything she had disappeared into the portal that Discord created, finding herself in the middle of the castle hallways. “What did he mean he already gave the answers? Arrrgh he can be so infuriating, no… no, don’t let it get to you, one thing at a time Twilight. The important thing is that Celestia is back.” Blinking several times, it finally fully registered to her the implications of Celestias return. “That’s right Celestia’s back! I should head towards the throne room that’s the most likely place she’d be… or would it be the kitchen? No, no… throne room, definitely the throne room.” Walking was to slow, running was too tiring, the best option? Teleportation (What were you expecting anything else? It’s Twilight after all.) Using what she had learned from Luna… and herself, magical energy began to swirl lightly around her, starting first at her legs before moving up her body in a spiral like motion. Finally in a flash she was gone from where she had been, leaving behind less of a scorch mark than she had ever made before. Arriving in the throne room, as expected her friends were waiting for her, along with Princess Celestia. Immediately after she had teleported in, her friends shouted “Twilight!” in unison, before they all went to hug her… for the third time today… or was it the second? Whichever it was, it wasn’t important, what was important was that Twilight was okay.     Hugging them back, “Hello girls, I’m alright, sorry for worrying you all.” Once the assurances were done and said, she withdrew from the hug before heading towards Celestia. Upon Reaching Celestia, Twilight embraced her as she began to cry slightly. “I was so worried, so afraid, had I not known you weren’t alive I don’t know what I would have done. I missed you and your guidance so much.” “I know Twilight, I know.” Celestia said softly in her motherly like voice as she held Twilight, simply holding her there for a while, allowing Twilight to withdraw when she was ready. After all, Celestia knew better than perhaps anyone else. That Twilight would do her best to keep her emotions in check, and work through things logically until a time presented itself where she could finally break down. Princess Celestia happened to provide that moment of time more often than not, and almost always when no one else was around. Once Twilight was fully assured that Celestia truly was back, she recovered quickly enough before finally withdrawing. “It’s good to see you again Celestia.” Twilight smiled finally. “It’s good to see you as well Twilight Sparkle, I’m sure you’ve been told many interesting things. I would love to hear about it at some point. At the moment, there are more pressing matters to be addressed, if you’ll all follow me.” Celestia responded as she began to lead them out of the throne room, and into her private chambers.