Epilogue
Fluttershy
After stepping through the portal, I looked around to watch the others step through. They each came through as their pony selves. Twilight. Rainbow Dash. Pinkie Pie. Rarity….
I stared at the portal, waiting for Applejack to come through. Then I realized it was getting smaller. Then smaller...and smaller.
“Umm, Discord,” I said. “Could you hold it open larger? Applejack hasn’t come through yet.”
He looked at me and then at the portal, sweat running down his face. He stuck his head through for amount, came back, and snapped the portal shut.
“Hey!” Twilight said. “What gives?”
Discord started to fall forward and I moved to catch him. I felt him lay out onto my back. He was heavy, but not too heavy.
“Discord?” I asked. “Are you alright?”
“I need rest,” he said before he looked over at the others. “She’ll be fine. She’ll just have to wait a few days.”
“I’ll get you home,” I told him.
“Goodness me,” came Princess Celestia’s voice and I looked up to see her and Princess Luna approaching us. I didn’t take much notice until now, but we had appeared in the garden where Chaogent and Discord use to be displayed when they were statues.
“What happened?” Princess Celestia asked.
“Applejack is still in the human world,” Dash said at once.
“And Discord is drained,” I added.
“Is she safe?” the princess asked us.
“She should be,” Twilight said. “We had friends there so they can watch over her while Discord recovers.”
“At least everypony is safe,” she replied. “What about Chaogent?”
“No problem,” Dash said. “That Outsider won’t be messing with anypony anymore.”
“We sent him back to the Outside!” Pinkie said, excitedly.
“Outsider?” Princess Luna questioned. “Outside? Outside where?”
“It’s a long story,” Twilight said. “I’ll tell you all about it.” She looked at me. “Take Discord to your place and have him rest. Once he’s well enough, he can recover Applejack.” She turned to the others. “Everypony else. Go rest. I’m sure we can take one Nightmare Night off.”
“And miss out on all the candy?!” Pinkie said. “No way!”
“Well, you go have fun, Pinkie,” Rarity said. “I’m going to go take a nice long bath.”
“I’m just going to go take care of Discord,” I said. I was never fond of Nightmare Night anyway.
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After I got home, I laid Discord out on my bed, thinking that it would be better than the couch. He was breathing hard and sweating a lot.
“Oh, poor Discord,” I said. “Get some rest.”
“My dear Fluttershy,” he said. “Will you stay with me?”
“Of course I will,” I told him. I sat next to the bed, putting a damp rag on his forehead. From all the action that happened, there was one thing I couldn’t stop thinking about. It made me blush a bit as I thought about it. “Umm, Discord? Could I ask you something?”
“Anything for you, Fluttershy,” he said.
“Why did you kiss me?”
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Herorian Time
“Sounded like an exciting adventure,” I said once Harry finished telling me the events of the past few days. We were sitting in Michael’s living room. I was sitting with A.J. on the couch, holding her close to me. Harry was sitting across from use with the new guitar I got him for his birthday. He was tuning it while we were talking.
“Well, I’m sorry I missed all the action,” I said.
“Don’t worry about it, sugarcube,” A.J. said. “Just show up next time.”
I chuckled a bit. “Sure,” I said. “Just give me a call.” She gave me a smile. “What do you think the vanilla humans will say about the sky?” I asked Harry.
“Vanilla humans?” questioned A.J.
“Humans who don’t have any magical powers,” I said.
“Some scientist will say it’s some rare atmospheric phenomenon,” Harry said. “They’ll chop everything else up as pranks.”
“Of course they will,” I said.
“Uncle Hero, how do I look!” came a little girl’s voice. I looked over to see Harry’s daughter, Maggie, standing in the doorway of the living room in a light blue dress.
I gave her a smile. “You look great, little munchkin,” I said.
“Go get a coat, Maggie,” Harry said. “Then we’ll get going.”
“Ok, daddy,” she said and ran up the stairs.
“Elsa,” I said, a smirk forming on my face. “You got her a Queen Elsa costume.”
“What’s wrong with that?” he asked.
“Do you know who Else is based off of?” I asked. He shrugged. “She’s based off the fairy tale called The Snow Queen. And do you know who the Snow Queen is based off of?”
“Don’t tell me,” he said.
“That’s right,” I said. “Your boss. The Winter Queen of Fairy. The Queen of Air and Darkness. Queen Mab.”
“You’ve got to be kidding me, is nothing based on a fairy?” he asked. I started to laugh. A.J. started to laugh also, though I don’t think she quite knew what was going on.
I saw Murphy walk into the room, laughing. “What are you laughing at?” Harry asked.
“I heard,” she said. “Harry is dressing Maggie up as Queen Mab.”
“Shut up,” Harry said. We laughed at him.
“So, Hero,” Murphy said, sitting down by Harry as she controlled herself. “You going to go Trick-or-Treating with us?”
“I’ll have to get a costume,” I said. I looked over at A.J. “I guess since you’re stuck here for a while, we should get you one too.”
She gave me a smirk. “Ya got that right,” she said.
“How are you going to get home?” Murphy asked.
“I’m sure Discord will come get me when he’s rested up a bit,” she said. “But I don’t mind waitin’.” She looked at me when she said that and I gave her a smile.
With that, we went and enjoyed Halloween together. I ended up finding a costume to wear. The clothes Rarity had apparently made while she was here had been left behind. Among them were some costumes for everyone. I hated to modify the clothes she made for Harry, but I used them to make me a costume. I even modified a costume for A.J. to match with mine. We went as Wyatt Earp and Josephine Marcus. Harry went as Han Solo and, with a lot of convincing, Murphy as Princess Leia.
Michael and Charity decided to stay home since the four of us were going. We took their kids out with Maggie. All and all, we had fun and had a good night.
After we were done, I took A.J. to a hotel where I rented a room for us. There, we got to enjoy some time together alone.
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We had been on the move some time now. It was hard on one’s back to walk so far. Not to mention, carrying the gear we had. However, we reached it. We reached the top of the hill and looked down at the village below.
“That’s it?” my colleague on my left asked. “It doesn’t look like a place to hold that kind of power.”
I looked over at him. His hood covered his face, but I know which one he was. “It might not look much, Jian,” I said. “But it has the power that we need.”
“I can’t believe the boss sent us all the way to this realm to fetch some fairy tail power,” my colleague to my right said. “And I still can’t get use to this body.”
I looked over at him. I used a little bit of my power to knock him to the ground. “Do not question our boss,” I told him.
“So, what’s next?” Jian asked me.
I pushed more power into my horn and made my hood fall back on its own. Unlike my two colleagues, I had grown accustomed to my new body, complete with black fur and everything. “It’s time the Blackhand Blades made a visit to Ponyville,” I said, my eyes locked on the crystal palace that was in the shape of a tree. It would be there that we would begin our search.