The Great and Powerful Failure

by Sarizon

Chapter 7 - Discordially Invited

After some more walking, Trixie looked over to her left and saw a small house on a hill. There was a bridge arched across a stream, and little birdhouses were scattered all around the property. There was no doubt that this was Fluttershy's home. Trixie crossed the bridge and walked up the path to Fluttershy's door. When Trixie got up to the door, she began giving a slight knock onto it. After no pony answered, she knocked again, this time a little harder. Once again, no pony answered. Trixie raised an eyebrow and knocked on the door as hard as she could. Anypony could hear how hard that knock was, and yet, nopony answered.

Trixie looked through the nearby window to make sure. The room seemed dark, and there wasn't a sight of a pony, nor any animals. It was clear nopony was home. Trixie was confused, but mostly, she was just wondering why Fluttershy couldn't have told her she would be gone.

"Maybe she doesn't want to see me," Trixi thought.

Trixie looked back up at the door, and to her surprise, her shadow grew larger in size on the door. The problem is, it wasn't her shadow. The shadow was tall and snake-like. Fearful of not knowing what to expect, Trixie slowly turned around to see what was casting the shadow. Trixie's eyes grew wide as what was before her, staring her point blank in the eye... was Discord.

"Hello Trixie," said Discord.

Trixie immediately jumped backwards, causing the back of her head to hit the door. The impact of doing so knocked Trixie out cold.

"Was it something I said?" Pondered Discord.

Trixie's woke up from being in a knocked out state for quite sometime. As Trixie began opening her eyes, she was surrounded by an assortment of different animals in what she presumed was the living room of Fluttershy's home. The animals were all cute, and furry, and Trixie couldn't help but adore them.

Trixie then said, "What a nightmare. I could've sworn that horrifying Discord was staring right at me."

"Horrifying? You really think so? Well I'm flattered."

Trixie heard that oh too familiar voice and noticed, in the corner of her eye, was Discord staring back at her from a nearby chair.

"Did you have a nice nap?," asked Discord.

Trixie quickly jumped up in fear, causing all the animals to scatter under all sorts of nearby furniture. Trixie remembers the legends and tales of Discord, and was not about to take any chances.

"P-Please Discord, have mercy on me! Please don't hurt me," pleaded Trixie.

Discord was confused.

"Me? Hurt you? Why would I ever do that?" Questioned Discord.

Trixie looked back up and was confused by what Discord just asked. Fluttershy heard the commotion coming from the living room and flew down from upstairs to see what was going on.

"Oh..my. Are you alright, Trixie? I was just upstairs to get you a rag to put on your forehead. I hope there wasn't a misunderstanding."

"Wait. Are you and Discord...friends?" asked a nervous Trixie.

Fluttershy began nodding.

"Oh don't worry," said Fluttershy,"Discord is no longer the 'bad' Discord he once was."

Discord nodded and dramatically said, "It is True. I have learned my lesson, and have given up on being the mischievous Discord I once was for good!"

"Mhm. Now we are good friends, right Discord?"

Discord gave a thumbs up and smiled and Fluttershy gave a smile back. Now knowing this, Trixie calmed herslef and dusted her fur off.

Trixie cleared her throat and said,"Well, it's n-nice to meet you Discord."

Discord shook her hoof, smiled, and said,"The pleasure is all mine, Trixie."

Fluttershy was happy that Trixie and Discord have now become friends.

"Oh, by the way, have any of you seen my animals?" asked Fluttershy.

Trixie pointed to the bottom of the nearby furniture where dozens of little eyes were looking toward her. Fluttershy then flew to look at all the animals in fear.

"It's ok little ones. Trixie was just scared by Discord. She won't hurt any of you," said Fluttershy.

The animals all began to slowly crawl from under the furniture, and walked towards the two ponies and Discord.

"Little ones, I'd like you to meet Trixie."

The animals gathered around Trixie. They seemed to not mind Trixie, in fact, the animals were rather intrigued by Trixie. Trixie couldn't help but smile.

"Well, it is certainly nice to meet all of you," said Trixie.

After greeting the little animals, Trixie turned to Fluttershy to see what assistance she would need with her animals.

"So, Fluttershy. What can I help with today?"

Fluttershy replied, "Oh...um...hmmm... Well, I will be busy practicing with the birds singing today... Oh! The beavers could use some help with rebuilding their dam, and afterwards, you can help Discord with feeding the rabbits...That is... if you want to."

Trixie put her hoof on her chin in thought, and said,"It seems simple enough. I'll certainly try my best, Fluttershy."

"I know you will," said Fluttershy with a smile.

Discord also said, "If you need me for anything Trixie, you know where to find me."

Trixie nodded and began to follow the beavers to their broken dam. Trixie couldn't believe how nice Discord was after hearing all the horrid stories she was told about him. This made Trixie think.

"If Discord was able to change, then maybe I really can change for the better," She thought to herself.

Trixie followed the beavers a way down the stream, and where the stream ended into a river, was the dam. Trixie began to investigate the situation of the broken dam. It seems the stream broke straight through the middle of the dam at some point the previous night. The beavers began work right away, but one beaver pointed Trixie to a dead tree on the edge of the water.

"What is it, little beaver?" asked Trixie.

The beaver continued to point toward the dead tree. It took Trixie a minute to figure it out, but then it hit her like a ton of bricks.

"Would you like me to grab the dead branches off of this tree?" asked Trixie.

The beaver nodded, and so Trixie began using her magic to start breaking the dead trees' branches. As old and dead as the tree was, it was still pretty difficult for Trixie to snap the branches off, given the fact that she never has really used her magic for strength as much as for magic tricks. They did eventually break off though and with every branch, Trixie would snap it into multiple pieces so it would be easier for the beavers to carry. She repeated this process until there were no more branches available from the old tree. Luckily, there was enough branches from the dead tree to cover the rest of the open hole in the dam, and the beavers began the rest of the proccess of building a dam.

For the rest of the time, Trixie observed how the beavers built the rest of the dam. Trixie was impressed by how quick the beavers were rebuilding the damage to their dam. The beavers began laying mud onto the branches, acting as a glue to keep the dam strong and resistant to the flow of the water. When the hole was completely plugged up, Trixie was to see that the dam was fixed, however, she noticed that the mud didn't seem like it was sticking a strongly as she once thought. The dam's wall looked like it was about to cave in again, and Trixie didn't want all of the beavers hard work to go to waste.

Trixie acted fast, looking for anything to help the beavers hold up the dam. In the mud next to the water, there was an old rope that still seemed strong enough to be of good use. Trixie took no chances and used her magic to grab the old rope out of the mud and tied it around the middle branches of the dam. Trixie made sure that the rope was as tight as possible before letting go of it. Trixie hoped that it would hold up as she let released the rope. Sure enough, the dam held together, and the beavers quickly finished covering the dam and rope with additional mud for extra strength.

When the beavers were finished, they gave a cheer for Trixie's quick thinking. Giving acknowledgement to the beavers new found appreciation for Trixie, she smiled and felt like she finally did some right since returning to Ponyville. The beavers wanted her to stay to celebrate, but Trixie knew that she had to head back to Fluttershy's home to assist Discord with the rabbits.

"You're welcome little beavers. As much as I would like to stay, I must return to Fluttershy's home.The rabbits are sure to be hungry by now."

The beavers awed in disappointment, but understood. Trixie waved goodbye to the beavers and began to head back to Fluttershy's home. Although the job was simple, the fact that she helped and made someone/something happy for her made Trixie smile with joy.

Trixie made it back Fluttershy's home and knocked on the door. Like the first time she knocked, nopony answered. Trixie knew that Discord was inside, and just let herself in. Trixie didn't expect what happened to her next, as a swarm of rabbits barged out of the house, each with a carrot in their mouths. One white rabbit jumped over her head, carrying a whole brown bag of carrots, and followed the other rabbits into the nearby forest. Realizing this wasn't a good sign, Trixie entered the house to find Discord.

Author's Note:

Hello! Sorry this one took awhile to get out. No thanks to work and procrastination haha either way, I hope you all enjoy it! I will begin work on chapter 8 soon, so stick around! Feel free to follow, like, comment with suggestions/critique's, the works! See you later!

Comments

[Magenta Cat]

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Angel.

[zalla661]

This is hilarious! I got to have more. What will Rainbow do all the while. And what's with that mysterious necklace? And why am I thinking these things?

[Sarizon]

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I fell over laughing

[Sarizon]

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Have no fear! All your questions will be answered! Well, except maybe you questioning yourself haha

[Sarizon]

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Fair enough. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and along with that, their critique so thanks for sharing yours.

[Pankrazius]

Some minor things here:

- Ok - we know Discord had changed after the S4 finale. But why does he don't cause the littlest bit of funny chaotic tricks? Nothing? Thats hard to believe.

- The dead branches were hard to break off, because she never used her magic for more then tricks.... after all she worked on a rock farm.

[Sarizon]

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To be fair, when we saw Trixie work on a rock farm in the show, she was breaking a small rock with a regular hammer. I wasn't implying that she used her magic Just for tricks, but that it was tricks she used it mostly for. I might've misworded it to make it seem like that, and I'll go back and see if I can correct that.

As far as Discord goes, I suppose I could've added something along those lines, just didn't think about it at the time. I'll remember that though for the future. Thanks!

[Fire Seeker12]

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To be honest I felt like it was a little bit rushed, but it's still a like able story.

[Sarizon]

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That's understandable. Thanks for the feedback ^_^

[zalla661]

5583620 LOL. I can't wait to see what you do with the others and Trixie.

[Phantom Dragon]

Oh interesting what's going to happen also this sentence needs to be fixed.
"Horrifying? I'm flattered you think so."
to
"Horrifying? You really think so? Well I'm flattered"