//------------------------------// // Welcome to Ponyville // Story: Discord, God of Chaos and Love? // by ace1233211 //------------------------------// Ch.2 Welcome to Ponyville Discord flouted above Ponyville as the sun began to rise over the horizon. It had been a week since his escape from the stony purgatory of being a lawn ornament. For him it had been one busy week. First he had to replace his statue in the garden with a fake, but Celestia would find out the second she saw it. So he put some of his power in the fake. This way Celestia would still feel his presences and he was free to set up the rest of his plan. After the fake Discord was in place, he was on his way to all corners of Equestria to find the five colts that would bring his plan to action. ‘It had been tauph, that’s for sure. Being the god of chaos and I have to sneak around, making sure I don’t make a big scene.’ Discord thru his hands in the air and yelled at the open sky. “Why should I keep quiet? I am Discord, God of Chaos, bender of reality. I shouldn’t run and hide like a child.” His anger vented for a moment, Discord remembered what happened last time he was free. “I couldn’t stay hidden for five minutes and I got one day of chaos. Not this time! With this plan they won’t even know it’s me.” Discord laugh to himself as he watched the ponies below as they began to move throughout their morning routine. Twilight opened the window shades letting in the shining light of her mentor’s gift. “Such a buitifull morning, today is going to be great” The purple unicorn made her way to the bathroom to clean up and get ready for today’s activities. Stopping a room before the bathroom, she knocks on the closed door. “Spike, time to wake up.” Twilight stood still for a moment and listened for a response. Not hearing one she knocked again. “Spike, its morning, time to wake up” “Fine. I’m up. I’m up.” Came a sleepy response from behind the door. “Don’t forget to make your bed again” Twilight yelled before heading to the bathroom. “ I know. I know.” Spike said before rolling over in his bed and falling back to sleep. After cleaning herself up Twilight left the bathroom and found that Spike’s door was still shut and she could hear his snoring from behind it. “Spike it’s time to wake up!” Twilight was getting annoyed. She knocked a few more times and with no response she used her magic and opened the door very slowly. On the other side of the room was a large basket and in it was a small sleeping, snoring, purple dragon. Twilight crept up to the basket without making a sound and looked down on the sleeping lizard. “He’s so cute when sleeps” Twilight rememberd when she first hatched him. For thirteen years she raised him, now he was getting too big for her to keep worrying over. ‘I’ve got some good training for when I have kids at least. Of cours first I need to find the right stallion.’ Her mind began to wonder as she looked out the window. ‘He would be smart and kind, and interesting oh and love books.’ Twilight’s mind began to fantasies about life with the ‘Perfect’ mate. This went on for several moments before Twilight shook her head. ‘No! That life can wait. I still have much I want to learn, much I want to read.’ The bookworm side of her mind crushed the filly side and took control. Turning her attention back to the lazy dragon that was still fast asleep in front of her, Twilight smirked and leaned her head down until she was inches from Spikes face. “Spiiiike.” She said with a soft tone. Spike moved a bit and mumbled something. “It’s time to, WAKE UP!!!!!” Twilight yelled in the little dragons ear (side of his head, dragons don’t have ears). “AHHH! What’s going on? Who’s here?” the startled dragon looked franticly around the room until he spotted Twilight. “What was that for?” Spike looked angrily at his caretaker. “You wouldn’t wake up the first few times, so I took a page from Dash’s book” Twilight walked toward the door. “Next time you’ll remember.” Spike got out of his bed and thru his blanket on the ground. Just as he was about to make his way downstairs. “Make your bed!” Yelled Twilight from the first floor. “I did. Geesh, can’t get two minutes out of bed before you start ordering me around?”Spike left his room without going back to pick up his blanket. As Spike entered the kitchen he was hit with the smell of pancakes cooking on the oven. His tongue fell out of his mouth, as the smell surrounded him. Not looking where he was going, Spike ran straight into the table. “Ow.” Rubbing his head, Spike hopped onto one of the chairs. “So, what’s the big deal? Why did you get me up so early?” Spike asked Twilight as she walked over with two plates staked with pancakes. “What do you mean? I always get you up early to help me with the books.” Twilight handed Spick his plate, which he took eagerly, mouth watering. “No, you try and wake me up early then let me sleep an extra hour. Why get me up today?” Spike tried not to talk with his mouth full but he was eating too fast. “First of all, I don’t think Rarity would approve of you talking while you eat.” Spike blushed and wiped his mouth with a napkin. “Second, if you recall today is the start of the festival.” “Holy cow! I almost forgot. This means no work for three days like you promised.” Spike had finished his pancakes and now was jumping around the kitchen like Pinky when she heard about a party. “This means three days I can spend with Rarity.” Twilight was putting the dishes away. “Now Spike, you can’t just bug her for three days.” “I’m not bugging her. She told me she needs help for her store. She said that ponies will come into her store for help with their cloths and dresses. Something about festivals causes ponies to want dresses fixed or altered. She said its easy work for good money but there is so many little things that she needs it are hard to get them all and keep up with orders.” “Alright, as long as you’re not bugging her. She’s not going to work all day is she? It would be a waste to work through the entire festival.” Twilight was getting her things together before heading out. “These next few days are going to be alsom-“BAM!! CRASH!!! BOOM!!! CRACK!!! CRASH!!! “What was that?” Twilight yelled as she and Spike ducked for cover. The Noise and shaking came from the upper layers of the library but soon made their way through the roof of the center room. Twilight looked up and what she saw confused her in more ways than one. Coming through the roof of the library was a mess of tangled twigs, branches, sticks, some weird green canvas, but in the middle of it all, tangled in a large amount of rope, was a ghost white stallion. “Hiya” After a few minutes Twilight had collected her thoughts and now stood up to get a better look at their home wreaker. He was still stuck in the rope, trying to get loose, but having no luck. “Little help might be needed here” he said with a small laugh. His movement had now caused him to start spinning slowly. “Who are you? What did you do to my house! And how did you fall through my roof?” was the first thing out of Twilights’ mouth. She watched as the pony hanging from her ceiling tried desperately to get untangled. “I’ll tell you anything you want, but only after you help me down. Please, I’m going to throw up.” Twilight couldn’t leave a pony in trouble and plus she was starting to get dizzy looking at him. “Fine, Spike.” Who had been hiding behind the kitchen door. “If you would ‘help’ our guest down.” “On it.” Spike walked over to a bookshelf and began to climb. When he reached the top he jumped to the next one and the one after that. Soon he was within jumping distance of the mess that hung from the ceiling. After one last, big jump, Spike was on top of the pony, crawly around using his claws to cut the ropes were he found them. “Ha Ha, wait stop not there, Ha Ha. This little, Ha Ha, guy is moving too, Ha Ha, much. He’s, Ha Ha, tickling me. Ha Ha Ha H-Ah!” BAM! “ Ow” “There, now you’re down.” Twilight had to hold back a laugh. Spike on the other hand, who was now back down on the floor was holding his sides laughing. “Could have warned me.” “Your name now!” Twilight had had enough of this pony and wanted answers. The stallion got to his hooves and knocked off some dust from his legs. Now that he wasn’t hanging from the ceiling Twilight got a better look at him. He was a unicorn, white body with messy long black hair. His cutie mark was a question mark and the weirdest thing was his left eye was changing color. “Ex is my name and I’m sorry for crashing into your home.” He raised a hoof to greet Twilight properly. “I’m Twilight Sparkle, and this is my assistant Spike.” She raised her hoof to meet his. “Now how did you end up coming through my roof?” Looking away from Twilight Ex answered. “Weellllll. It’s a long story.” “You’ve got five seconds.” Twilight wasn’t going to let this pony off the hook. “Alright what do you know about Codlens?” “They’re an old foal story used to scare pegasus foals from staying up to late.” “But do you know what they are? Small goblin like creatures that live in large clouds.” “They don’t exist so what do they have to do with you and my roof?” Twilight pointed to the mess above them. “I’m getting to that. Now you say they don’t exist but how do you know?” “Because I have a book on every living thing in Equestria and they aren’t in any of them.” Twilight waved her hooves at the array of books on the shelves, some scattered on the floor. “Books? Who needs them?” Ex waved his hoof like he was shooing away a cat. “How can you say that? Books are how we learn and teach others. They’re an invalibul source of knowledge. They keep a record of history and help us learn valuable skills. Books are one of the most important things on this planet.” Twilight took a long breath and calmed herself down. “I take it you like books.” Smiling at the angered unicorn “You don’t know the half of it.” Spike added “So if a book tells you that something isn’t real, you believe it?” “Yes.” “What if the books just don’t talk about it? Do you assume it’s not real?” “I guess, but that doesn’t mean that Codlens are real.” “That right there is what I’m talking about. The assumption that books know all and that if you question them you’re an idiot.” “So, what? You tried to prove that Codlens were real? How? Unicorns can’t fly and Codlens live in clouds. Wait, that thing” she pointed to the heap that Spike had gotten from the hole on the roof and left on the floor. “You were using that thing to fly?” “It’s one of my inventions. It allows me to glide through the air. I just…well… lost control after I passed through a cloud. Then before I knew it I hit your tree.” Ex rubbed his shoulder and winced in pain. “Well I hope that proves that books are useful.” Twilight said with her head held high. “That glider I built was because a book I read when I was little that said that unicorns couldn’t fly. I proved it wrong and I’ve proven hundreds of books wrong. I don’t plan to stop because of one mistake.” “Fine do what you want just get out of my house.” Twilight pointed toward the door. Ex slowly shuffled his way to the door, then he stopped and faced the mare once again. “ I know this sounds wired to ask but I need a place to stay and I don’t know too many ponies here. Could I… you know… stay here?” He put on his best innocent face. “You crash into my house make fun of books and now you want me to let you stay here?” “Pleeeeease.” Ex’s eyes grew three times their size and his bottom lip stuck out. Twilight couldn’t stand it and caved. “Fine. But on one condition. Fix. My. Roof!” Ex shot up with a smile from ear to ear. “You got it. This is a tree right? I’ll have it done in an hour.” Twilight grabbed her bag and made for the door. “I doubt that, but as long as you get it fixed. Come on Spike we’ve wasted enough time.” Twilight reached for the door, but just as she was about to open it. She was knocked into the back wall by a pink flash that jolted through the door. “MORNING TWILIGHT! ARE YOU EXCITED FOR THE FESTIVAL? HU? HU? HU? ARE YA?” a pink pony yelled at a disoriented Twilight. “Good morning Pinky. Yes I’m excited but could you let go of me?” Pinky let go of Twilight and turned a greeted Spike before spying a white pony in the corner of the room, frightened by how she greeted her friend. “HI I know you. Ex, we meet yesterday right? Find a place to stay yet?” “ Y-Ya, I’m staying here. After I fix the hole in the roof.” Pinky just now noticed the gaping hole above her. “WOW! That really lets light in here. You should keep it Twilight.” Twilight now recovered from her friends greeting. “No Pinky, I have enough windows I don’t need a skylight. Did you have something you needed from me because I was just about to head out?” Pinky was still looking happily at the hole in the roof, but Twilights question caught her attention. “I almost forgot I have somepony you have to meet!” Twilight was pushed out the door by Pinky. The rest of the town was a blur as Pinky pushed Twilight quickly along. They stopped finally in front of a new house that had been built recently. Pinky knocked on the door and waited for the owner to answer. When the door finally opened the pony behind it stepped out and made his way next to Pinky. “Twilight, I’d like you to meet Zip, my coltfriend.” You’ll have to wait till next time HA HA HA!!!!!