//------------------------------// // Chapter 10: Everypony hates me // Story: Tales of a Brony: Friendship // by YourPrivateNightmare //------------------------------// Chapter 10: Everypony hates me The screams! They were coming from town. Fluttershy rushed out of the cottage, looking terrified. “Wha-What’s happening?” She asked nervously. “I have no buck-“ Then we heard the roar. Fluttershy immediately winced and hid behind my back. “Eeeep! What was that?” I recognized the sound of the roar...and it didn’t make me feel better. There was only one creature to make such sounds. I wanted to rush to town, but Fluttershy held me back. “Wait for me. If it’s an animal it just needs some kindness” She said. “Fluttershy, stay indoors! It’s a dragon!” That was a lie. It didn’t sound much like a dragon. However my little lie worked. Fluttershy squeaked and rushed back into her house, locking the door. I actually didn’t want to lie to her, but...I just didn’t want her to get hurt... I didn’t know why I cared so much for her and wanted to protect her, but right now, that wasn’t important. I finally left Fluttershy’s place and galloped towards the centre of the riot. “This isn’t good...” I thought. I knew only one creature to make these sounds. A... Switch to Discord “...HYDRA!!!” “What?” Discord was just relaxing in his hammock, sipping on a cup of tea, when he heard the screams. He got up from the hammock stretched his limbs and yawned. “Oh, Ponyville...You never give poor, old Discord time to relax.” He sighed, then teleported. Switch to Xenos I saw it from the far. It was huge. Much larger than the one from the episode (yeah, I still remembered that). It was green and had not four, but six heads. It stomped through the town, crushing everything in its way and biting off large pieces of the houses. Several Ponies were running around screaming and trying not to get stomped into the ground by the giant snake-like creature. I didn’t know what to do. My magic wasn’t even to close to be powerful enough to even tickle this thing. However I tried to act like a hero and started firing lightning bolts at the monster. As expected it was barely noticed by the Hydra. It just looked at me (with all six heads! Creepy!) and then roared. “That’s it! Real heroes know when it’s time to retreat! Bye!” I thought. I already wanted to run off to hide in a barrel, when I suddenly heard a familiar voice. “What do you think, you’re doing here, little lizard?” “Discord?” The former sprit of chaos was floating right in front of the monster, which just glared at him, looking unsteady. “You can’t just come here and start eating the houses. That’s not what you do as a guest.” He continued. The Hydra snatched at Discord, who easily dodged the attack. “Ohohoho, you’re a little grumpy, aren’t you?” “Is there even ONE thing he will ever take serious?” Discord started flying around the Hydra’s heads and poked them repeatedly. This made the creature even more furious. It tried to bite Discord, but he was way too fast. “Nononono, you’re doing it wrong. Look, this is how I do it.” With this words, he made a brief gesture and one of the Hydra’s heads was hit by a...piano? The crazy draconequus was actually bombing the monster with a rain of pianos, falling down from the sky. The hydra stumbled back, trying to avoid the falling music instruments. “What, you don’t like music? That’s sad. Have some cakes instead.” He then started to throw all sorts of cakes at the giant reptile. “Okay, now it’s getting ridiculous!” “Everything comes to an end, my friend. Time for you to go to bed, now.” Discord said to the Hydra, which looked pretty deranged now. Then he touched the monster’s head and both of them simply...disappeared. Everypony gazed at the sky in disbelief. For a few moments, everything was silent... Then I heard a “Poof” and Discord appeared from a grey cloud of smoke. Everyone just glared at him. “...Uhm...Tadaa?” Everypony cheered. They were really...cheering for Discord, who somehow...had summoned another piano and started playing while floating in midair. I was honestly happy now. Finally the Ponies accepted him. Even better, they really LIKED him. It was inspiring, and that meant...time for painting! I quickly ran home to get my equipment. Then I galloped back to the town centre. I built up my easel and started painting pictures. Happy pictures! Finally, after all the break up stuff, I was happy again. Now that Discord had proven himself to be a nice guy, and Fluttershy sort of...helped me to get over my heartsickness... I felt a lot better. After some time I noticed that nopony was actually looking what I was doing. That was strange. No, I’m not that arrogant, that I think, when I’m drawing everypony has to gather and stare at my amazing skills, but...usually, at least one or two Ponies stopped to look at my work. However, that day, none of that happened. In fact nopony didn’t even seem to notice me. As I watched the Ponies, passing by, I could see, that some of them gave me a depreciative look. What was going on? I got even more suspicious, when a little filly, tried to get a closer look, but was immediately dragged away by her mother, who whispered something while looking at me in a strange way. “Seriously, what the buck?” What had I done wrong? Then I saw Spike in the distance. “Maybe he knows something.” I waved at the little dragon, but he didn’t seem to notice me. Or did he try to ignore me? “Hey, Spike!” I called him. He stopped, but didn’t turn around. I walked up to him, but he still didn’t turn around “What’s wrong?” Then I saw his face. He didn’t look very happy. He actually looked really angry. “Something…worng…Spike?” I asked carefully. He just stared at me and clenched his fists. “Uhm…Spike?” “I’ll tell you what’s bucking wrong!!!” He suddenly broke out. “Twilight has locked herself in her bedroom for hours now and won’t stop crying! The only thing I could get out was, that you idiot broke up with her, and obviously weren’t really much of a gentlecolt. In fact you must have acted like a total jerk. I never saw her so devastated. Now I can't even enter the library anymore because she has cast a magical barrier around it. THAT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!” I didn’t know what to say. Sure, I had said some things I probably shouldn’t have, but…Twilight didn’t even seem to be offended when I left. She was just incredibly angry. However I couldn’t really believe that my words had hurt her so much. At least it explained why everypony avoided me… “Spike, listen I-“ I tried to explain, but he cut me off. "I don’t want to hear it. You better never show up at the library again! And by the way, Congratulations, you just lost a friend.” With these words he turned around and trotted away. I was just standing there with my mouth open. Again, I felt like an idiot and wanted to cry, but I realized that everypony was staring at me. And they didn’t look friendly. So I made an angry face to hide my frustration and rushed away. When I was sure that they couldn’t hear me any more I stopped holding back and let the tears flow… “Not again! Not now! Not when everything has just turned to good…” I needed somepony to talk to now. But obviously everyone had already heard the news and thought I was an idiot. Who could I talk to without being referred to as a jerk? Then I remembered the only Pony, who wasn’t interested in what happened in town…Doctor Whooves. With a little spark of hope I headed towards Ditzy’s house… END OF CHAPTER 10 Author's note: Sort of a short one again...