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// Starry-Eyed Bat 
// Story: Nightmare Night out 
// by Catrina37 
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Ch. 6: Star-Eyed Bat
	

Fluttershy and Thorne finally made it to the spot Thorne mentioned earlier. It is a small clearing in the far side of the Everfree Forest.

“Here we are, my dear,” Thorne says as he helps her out of the boat.

“It’s so beautiful,” Fluttershy says when she sees the clearing.

“Indeed you are,” Thorne dreamily says.

“What?”

“It is! The clearing certainly is!” he nervously says, “Whenever I think of Tambelon, I come out here and make a wish on one of the stars.”

“Oh Thorne.”

“Maybe we can do a little stargazing together.”

The two sit on a nearby log as they watch the stars together.


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Meanwhile, Discord is flying when he sees the boat Thorne and Fluttershy were in.

“There’s the boat!” he says, “I’m getting close.”

He continues to fly when he sees the two from the air.

“There they are! When I get my hands on that bat, I’m gonna use him to hit baseballs!”

He flies down into some nearby pine trees and sees Thorne wrapping his arm around Fluttershy’s shoulder from behind, causing him to burn with envy. Thorne and Fluttershy hear him.

“What was that?” Fluttershy asks.

Thorne looks around the woods and sees Discord looking at him furiously from behind some trees, making Thorne fearful of him.

“P-probably a woodland animal in need of help,” Thorne lies.

“Poor thing must be hurt. I better go and help it.”

“NO! I mean… uh… I’ll go help the poor animal. Why don’t you wait here and keep looking at the stays..”

“You’re so sweet, Thorne,” Fluttershy says while nudging him.

Thorne goes into the trees to find Discord.

“Discord?”

Discord suddenly appears in a puff of smoke looking angry red. It frightened Thorne a little when he saw how he looked.

“Discord. What a surprise to see you here!” he nervously smiles, "How was Saddle Arabia?”

“Don’t even try, Mango Breath!” Discord growls, “I leave for a few hours, then you go and sweeping Fluttershy off her hooves!?!”

Thorne floats into the air as Discord turns into a hulk-like figure ready to beat the living daylights out of the poor bat imp.

“WAAAAAIIIIT! Do you think you can grant a dying bat’s last request first?”

“What is it?”

Thorne takes a ship in a bottle out of his shirt.

“Would you care to explain how one gets a small ship into the bottle?”

“That answer’s obvious.”

Discord changes back and shrinks down to get inside the bottle to explain it to Thorne.

“What they do is merely put the pieces of the ship inside the bottle…” Discord explains.

Before he could finish, Thorne slams the cork into the bottle opening, trapping Discord into the bottle as Thorne laughs.

“I can’t believe you fell for that!” he laughs some more.

“You double-crossing rat with wings!”

“And don’t bother getting big. That bottle is made of quartz, the one substance that renders a draconequus helpless. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a date with a very special pony.”

He walks sway while looking smug as Discord bangs his head on the bottle.